Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

Then launch control announced, "Challenger, go with throttle up." Suddenly, there was a moment of static on the audio feed, along with billowing smoke and flames in the video, as well as pieces of the ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the... 40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons ...

Five days before Challenger's 1986 launch, the shuttle's crew of seven arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, pausing on the tarmac before a gaggle of microphones. Commander Dick Scobee spoke ...