A generation of schoolchildren in New Hampshire grew up believing that our capacity to do the extraordinary knew no limits.
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...
NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...
It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...
Today is the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, which blew apart as it was gliding across Texas to a Florida landing. All seven crew members died, and Texans were poking ...
After the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it entered Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday morning, Boston University students reacted with sadness and surprise. Nicole Rodin, a senior in the College ...
The song, "XO," uses six seconds of sample audio from the Challenger disaster. Dec. 30, 2013— -- Beyoncé has been labeled "insensitive" by some current and former NASA astronauts and their ...