Just two weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic rocket failure that shook Baikonur and quietly ended its lunar ambitions. This video unpacks the N1 ...

Because a teacher was going to space, millions of schoolchildren watched the Challenger lift off on Jan. 28, 1986. It ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

Every generation has that extraordinary moment in time where they can pinpoint where they were, what they were doing and how they felt. Mine was that January day, 40 years ago Wednesday, when ...

"I lost my father," Alison Balch said, "but to everyone else, they felt like they lost somebody also." ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

Forty years ago, Americans were shocked when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after it launched on a chilly ...

For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...

As Apollo 11 unfolded, the world watched history in the making, but behind the scenes the White House prepared for catastrophe. This video explores the hidden Nixon speech written in case Armstrong ...

Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...