Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space ... the Space Shuttle Challenger. This marks 35 years since the Challenger disaster.

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...

The disaster was caused by an O-ring seal ... would return to space flight with five crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Emmy Award Winning Meteorologist Samara Cokinos joined the ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger ... The bulletin for the Challenger disaster was no doubt labeled “FLASH,” meaning the event had “transcendent” urgency. A flash was sent with ...

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Jan. 29, 1986. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster ...

Today marks 39 years since the Challenger disaster. Thirty-nine years since the pioneers of Challenger “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” to “touch the face of God.” (Space Shuttle ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, I had just come out of a class at Adams State College when a friend came up to me with a horrified look on his face and told me that the space shuttle had just blown up.

Just 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle ... discovery. Their bravery will never be forgotten, and their impact on space exploration will always be remembered. What caused the Challenger ...

In 1994, the United States ended a trade embargo on Vietnam after 19 years. In 1994, Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off into space with the first Russian cosmonaut aboard a U.S. spacecraft.