OTD in Space – June 20: Challenger Launches Palapa B Satellite

On June 20, 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger – including America's first space woman Sally Ride -- deployed an ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
Action News Jax

Space shuttle Challenger remembered 38 years after tragedy

Sunday marks 38 years since the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on a chilly Florida morning and passed into history when the ship carrying seven astronauts -- one the first “civilian” in space, ...
WHIO

Space shuttle Challenger remembered 40 years after explosion

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 ...
New York Post

Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...
CBS News 8

NASA Challenger explosion remembered 37 years later

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's space shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission on Jan. 28, 1986. It exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, claiming the ...