But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

Adam Higginbotham’s new book delves deep into the tragedy of the Challenger explosion and the impact the disaster has had on American culture. Apple Podcasts will only work on MacOS operating ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...

PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. One of those seven astronauts was Christa McAuliffe.

The space shuttle Challenger had exploded a little more than a minute after launch, killing everyone on board. The commission’s job was to find out what had gone wrong and how it had happened ...

Over the years, many movies, documentaries, news articles and podcasts have been made to capture the tragedy of the events.

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle ...