40 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster changed Central Floridians’ lives

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

Long Island educators — grade schoolers in '86 — recall lessons learned in class watching Challenger disaster

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion stirs the memories of Long Island educators who watched the disaster on ...

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
WGN Radio

What caused the space shuttle Challenger disaster?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams ...
Houston Public Media

Space shuttle Discovery is headed to Houston. The Smithsonian and NASA say it may have to be sent in pieces

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...