Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, which occurred 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, a devastating incident that occurred on Jan. 28, 1986, after the ...

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 space shuttle's seven crew members died, including one civilian teacher. The tragedy changed the course of NASA's future. On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when ...

The 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster comes as NASA prepares for its next major step in human spaceflight. The Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts around the ...

KSHB 41 reporter Tod Palmer covers sports business and eastern Jackson County. Share your story idea with Tod. Joyous anticipation. That’s probably the best way to describe the feeling 40 years ago, ...