40 years ago, shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida in deadly tragedy

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

40 years later: Weather’s role in the Shuttle Challenger tragedy

On a cold, sunny morning in Florida, after several scrubs due to weather, the launch was a highly-anticipated event.
Paducah Sun

Challenger Learning Center honors shuttle crew’s legacy 40 years after disaster

Children, students and adults gathered around television sets 40 years ago to watch the Space Shuttle Challenger launch. Seventy-three seconds after the launch, people around the world heard or saw the first major space shuttle disaster,
Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of space exploration, but was marred by two tragic accidents during the shuttle era.

NASA’s Next Moon Rocket Runs on Shuttle Engines—Here’s the Story Behind Each One

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, specifically three rocket engines that have previously flown on space shuttle missions.