If Challenger had not exploded, she would be the first teacher in space. If she had not died in the Challenger disaster, McAuliffe would be 66 years old today.Well, there's a Sharon A. McAuliffe ...

Teacher Recalls Class Watching Challenger Explode Ellen McKinney was a first-grade teacher in McCall, Idaho, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. She teaches second grade now at the ...

When the Challenger exploded, an incredible silence came over the gym, she said. “I will never forget it. It was also the first time that I remember feeling an overwhelming sense of emotion.

Except the crew never made it. The Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch when a booster engine failed. Thirty-three years later, NASA and the rest of America still honor the Challenger ...

a family from Detroit watches the Challenger from Cocoa Beach, Fla., cheering and clapping, photographing themselves with the shuttle in the background, not knowing that the shuttle had exploded.

Nor was it the last: in 2003, the Columbia shuttle exploded as it was returning from space. Still, the Challenger is one of the most memorable examples of a failed space mission. The mission would ...

A piece of NASA's fallen Challenger has been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida nearly 37 years after the craft exploded 73 seconds into flight and killing all seven ...

Divers searching for a World War II-era aircraft along Florida’s east coast accidentally stumbled upon another tragic American artifact — a piece of the space shuttle Challenger that exploded ...

Colonel Bobko was still in the space program when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds into liftoff in 1986, killing its seven crew members. “That was pretty hard,” he told The Half Moon Bay ...

Then, in a blistering white flash, a science lesson tragically exploded into a human lesson ... anniversary of the explosion that destroyed Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff after a failure ...