Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air over Florida, killing all seven ...

Both the 2003 Columbia and 1986 Challenger space shuttle disasters, which resulted in fatalities, received the "Type A mishap ...

Forty years ago, the U.S. space shuttle Challengerset out on a mission to not just launch satellites but to carry the first teacher into space and to inspire the promise of spaceflight into classrooms ...

American space agency NASA publishes the report into the only crewed flight of the Boeing Starliner so far, calls it a Type A mishap.

The space shuttle Challenger cleared the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. The space shuttle Challenger crew died 40 years ago. Front row, from ...

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over ...

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in space. The accident instantly killed all seven astronauts on board. This was ...

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over ...