As our city worked to recover from the effects of severe weather, we passed the 40-year anniversary of a major moment in ...

The Challenger wasn’t the nation’s first space tragedy. Reaching for the stars comes with a cost. But this was the first spaceship to break apart on live television, exploding before our very eyes -- ...

A good teacher holds a special place […] ...

Forty years on, the Challenger disaster remains a case study in what happens when organizations fail to allow for dissent and ...

LUMBERTON — As this week marked the 40th anniversary of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, one local man recalls a connection to astronaut Ronald McNair, who was killed in the tragedy.

Prelude: It was bitterly cold in Washington for Reagan’s scheduled State of the Union address. But it wasn't the weather that intervened. Instead, the annual event was postponed by a tragedy that ...

Discover how human spaceflight began and why it matters for our lives today! Explore NASA, the Cold War space race, astronaut training, and the impact of seeing Earth from space. In this episode of ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crew members on board were killed ...

The STS-107 tragedy on February 1, 2003, brought the reality of space exploration to Deep East Texas, where debris rained ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as ...

The explosion claimed the lives of all seven astronauts, including McAuliffe, the first private citizen selected for ...

The Challenger explosion was an awakening for people in the 1980s. It shook confidence in received narratives of safety.