It would be 32 months before another shuttle left a launch pad. Within days, NASA concluded two rubber O-rings in Challenger’s right solid rocket booster had failed because temperatures ...

The STS-51L mission was originally targeted for Jan. 23, 1986, but was pushed back because of delays with the Columbia shuttle and STS-61C mission just miles away at Launch Pad 39A. Weather ...

(NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from a Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Seventy-three seconds into the launch, the shuttle ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower in the evening and early morning hours on January 28 ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.