Alabama Public Radio

Alabama's role in NASA’s space shuttle Challenger accident, on its 40th anniversary

This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...

40 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster changed Central Floridians’ lives

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty ...
Jefferson Public Radio

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark ...
Opinion

Challenger, 40 years on: the space shuttle disaster watched live by millions of children

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...

NASA holds annual Day of Remembrance to honor crews of Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1

NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

NASA remembers fallen astronauts during Kennedy Space Center memorial ceremony

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...
The Guam Daily Post

Survivors juggle sorrow and hope on NASA’s day remembering Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard from any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew ...
insider.si.edu

Truth, lies, and O-rings : inside the space shuttle Challenger disaster / Allan J. McDonald ; with James R. Hansen

"On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on ...