Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

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 ...

Shuttle astronauts' deaths were so horrific NASA held an extra funeral

At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...
The Washington Post

40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster

Spectators in the VIP area at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, watch as the space shuttle Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. (Bruce ...
USA Today

What happened to Challenger? Remembering deadly disaster 40 years later

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Challenger: 25 years later, a still painful wound

A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 - a scant 73 seconds into ...