Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She wasn’t worried. Newly trained astronaut Judith A. Resnik was a special guest in 1979 when the NASA Lewis Research Center in ...

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, ...

The Challenger wasn’t the nation’s first space tragedy. Reaching for the stars comes with a cost. But this was the first spaceship to break apart on live television, exploding before our very eyes -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over a minute after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an O-ring seal on one of the solid rocket boosters ruptured ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the seven astronauts on board.

It's been 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986, in Florida, killing all seven people on board. One of those who died was Akron's own Judith Resnik, ...

Crew members of Challenger mission STS-51L gather in the White Room at Pad 39B following the end of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The Challenger crew poses for a photo. From left to right ...

321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (Feb. 2) ...