A new documentary about teacher Christa McAuliffe focuses more on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger knows it was a national tragedy. But dig a little deeper, and it's even more heartbreaking.

Hearing her voice and hearing what she stood for and hearing her be a champion for the field of education, I thought, was ...

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space ...

A Long March 2D rocket launched in Shanxi province on Tuesday successfully placed four PIESAT-2 satellites into their ...

That sunny morning, the entire state and a generation of schoolchildren watched as a ceiling that seemed so unlimited was ...

Farrah Hayes, a third-generation educator, has been at Gadsden State since 2015, most recently as dean of Academic Programs ...

New documentary "Christa," on New Hampshire PBS looks at the life and legacy of Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher selected ...

The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented ...

who was chosen to go into space in 1986 and teach a class on board the Challenger space shuttle. She and her fellow crew ...

(This practice mostly ceased after the Challenger shuttle explosion of 1986, after which the military shifted to expendable rockets.) NASA focussed on reducing space costs, while the Soviet Union ...

Astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger On 7 April in 1983, American astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave bravely stepped out ...