HOUSTON -- NASA will observe a solemn anniversary today. The Challenger accident happened 30 years ago today. NASA is set to honor the victims of that accident across multiple states today. It is hard ...

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after the launch with a terrible mid-air explosion on Jan. 28, 1986. The blast killed all seven crew members aboard Challenger, including teacher ...

​William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the centre responsible for the defective rocket that caused the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was an unusually cold day for Florida on that date, Jan. 28, 1986. The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time ...

WASHINGTON -- Lessons learned from the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger were "undone over time" by NASA managers long before the disintegration of its sister spacecraft Columbia in a ...

"On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on ...

John Denver was a decorated country musician, philanthropist, environmentalist, and, generally, an icon. The man wore a few different hats. And one more to include on that list is that of a pilot’s ...