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 ...

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on ...

The long-awaited $450 million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center will officially open its ...

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...

As the final countdown ticked away before Space Shuttle Challenger's launch on January 28, 1986, tens of millions of Americans were riveted to their television screens. A rocket launch was already a ...

Thirty years ago, as the nation mourned the loss of seven astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger, Bob Ebeling was steeped in his own deep grief. The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other ...

Bob Ebeling spent three decades filled with guilt over not stopping the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, but found relief in the weeks before his death. Ebeling’s daughter Leslie Serna told ...