The explosion claimed the lives of all seven astronauts, including McAuliffe, the first private citizen selected for ...

Students in West Virginia collected over a million pennies to commission a statue of Christa McAuliffe, honoring teachers and ...

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 completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

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

Forty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, the disaster remains one of the most consequential tragedies in U.S. spaceflight history.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crewmembers on board were killed.

Melanie Vickers, of Charleston, West Virginia, was one of 114 teachers in NASA’s Teacher in Space program. One of the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Wednesday morning, the majority members of the Senate Commerce Committee voted in favor of having President Donald Trump’s nominee Jared Isaacman as NASA’s new administrator.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

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The Office of Alumni Relations & Development and the MSU Alumni Association are honored to announce the next class of alumni ...