‘Final Flight': Challenger Center to mark tragedy 40 years later

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...
Donga ScienceOpinion

Why NASA’s Tragedies Repeat: The Unlearned Lessons of the Challenger Disaster

Fifty-seven years after humanity first set foot on the Moon, the once-unknown realm of space has now become a stage for ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Returning to the scene of the Challenger explosion, with a NH journalist who was there

We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.
Houston Public Media

Space shuttle Discovery is headed to Houston. The Smithsonian and NASA say it may have to be sent in pieces

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...
The Pantagraph

'Our destiny is out there'

NORMAL - Onetime astronaut hopeful Lynne Curry and Scott Altman, a Lincoln native who has flown the space shuttle three times, came away from the Challenger explosion 20 years ago with different ...