It was on the Challenger when the shuttle exploded in 1986, but the ball remained intact. Years later, it finally reached its ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

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 ...

Bob Ebeling spent three decades filled with guilt over not stopping the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, but found relief in the weeks before his death. Ebeling’s daughter Leslie Serna told ...

The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion strengthened Nancy Currie-Gregg's resolve to become an astronaut. Currie-Gregg was selected as an astronaut in 1990 and completed four space missions before ...

Filmmakers accidentally uncover the biggest part of NASA's destroyed Challenger space shuttle. A destroyed part of NASA's space shuttle Challenger was found 35 years after the launch incident.

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...