Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siena Garcia, center, takes an elevator with others during a simulated Mars expedition mission Jan. 16 at the Scobee Education ...

HOUSTON (CNN) — NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the ...

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of ...

From its inception, the Space Race held the attention of people of all nations as the world's superpowers flexed their post-war technological muscle in pursuit of science and brinkmanship. As ...

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 ...

Middle school students will soon get to simulate a NASA mission at the first Challenger Learning Center in the state and 35th ...

Though the Challenger disaster brought an end to Teacher in Space, educators in the years since have found other paths to orbit. Barbara Morgan, an elementary school teacher who had trained as ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...