Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first civilian tried to go to space. Check out the entire WeCreateEdu Space ...

WASHINGTON — It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle explosion, one of NASA's most devastating tragedies. NASA's Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lifting off on Jan. 28, 1986 ...

As NASA continues to investigate the terrible loss of Columbia and its crew, the significance of previous warnings that cost saving efforts at NASA could impair the safety of shuttle missions are ...

Americans' attention was torn from the growing conflict in Iraq this Saturday, February 1, when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded over the skies of Texas. Now, 17 years after the Challenger ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...

The key to uncovering the cause of the shuttle disaster may be debris that came off Columbia before it flew over Texas, according to NASA officials. Investigators continue to focus on damage during ...