Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

The crew was made up of five astronauts, two payload specialists and one teacher (Image: AFP) On the morning of January 28, 1986, millions of viewers around the globe were transfixed by their ...

At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...

Few who witnessed NASA's Challenger Space Shuttle launch will ever forget the moment it broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff, claiming the lives of all seven crew members. A minor design flaw in ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever ...