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, ...

President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to give a State of the Union address to the nation on Jan. 28, 1986. It was canceled. Instead, Reagan addressed a nation in mourning after the explosion that ...

The crew compartment shot out of the fireball, intact, and continued upward another three miles before plummeting. The free fall lasted more than two minutes. There was no parachute to slow the ...