The space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Pad 39B on Jan. 28, 1986, at 11:38 a.m. EST with a crew of seven astronauts. Classmates of America’s first school teacher astronaut, ...

Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died. He was 77.

(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Following an apparently flawless launch, a catastrophic explosion blew apart the space shuttle Challenger 74 seconds after lift-off Tuesday. The explosion occurred about ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 28, 1986. A short time later, the Challenger exploded, killing the crew of seven onboard.

Challenger shuttle fragment found almost 37 years after spacecraft destroyed on lift-off. NASA has verified the discovery was part of the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle, which broke apart ...

Karol Bobko, an Air Force pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years ...

And for the good news: Greyhawk's terrain network lives on. While Sun Valley tore out the lift, it did preserve its terrain network via a mid-station on the new, yet-to-be-opened Challenger lift..

With the expansion, the original Challenger lift and the Greyhawk lift have been replaced with a cutting-edge Doppelmayr 6 seated chair lift, featuring a mid-station unload.

S tate and local leaders, schools, and community members gathered in Rainbow City for the groundbreaking of the Challenger Learning Center of Northeast Alabama. There was more than a two-year ...