When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions about who watched the tragedy unfold live on television. It also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CNN is airing "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight," a four-part documentary about the 2003 tragedy. Forty-three years to the ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a project ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico has long played a leading role in the United States’ exploration of space, and in 1982, the state was put in the history books as the Space Shuttle Columbia ...

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to ...

This cover image released by Avid Reader shows "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" by Adam Higginbotham. (Avid Reader via AP) 34,435 people played the daily ...

This cover image released by Avid Reader shows "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" by Adam Higginbotham Avid Reader via AP ...