Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siena Garcia, center, takes an elevator with others during a simulated Mars expedition mission Jan. 16 at the Scobee Education ...

HOUSTON (CNN) — NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the ...

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Challenger Learning Center is asking the community to honor its namesake as 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger ...

The Artemis II launch on April 1, was a success. But not all launches have bee. In 1986, 7 members of the Challenger crew ...

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster killed seven astronauts but disturbing evidence suggests ...

Forty years to the day since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a former astronaut and teacher recounted watching the launch as a child and reflected on why she still chose to fly years later in a ...

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 ...

Forty years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Scobee Education Center at San Antonio College is still working to keep the lost crew's legacy alive. The Scobee center is one of more than ...

Though the Challenger disaster brought an end to Teacher in Space, educators in the years since have found other paths to orbit. Barbara Morgan, an elementary school teacher who had trained as ...

Forty years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Scobee Education Center at San Antonio College is still working to keep the lost crew’s legacy alive. The Scobee center is one of more than ...