In 1986, the world watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and John Denver's personal connection to NASA inspired a heartfelt song.

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The memories are painful. Images from that tragic day still haunt those old enough to remember. It’s the 40th anniversary of the ...

For millions of Americans, 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. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

Amarillo Little Theatre will present "Defying Gravity," a production based on the 1986 tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger. Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all passengers, ...

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida — a moment that would soon become the nation’s worst tragedy ...

William Lucas, a key NASA figure during the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, has passed away in Alabama at the age of ...

AKRON, Ohio — This week marks 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a tragedy that stunned the nation, halted America’s space program, and forever changed the lives of families, ...