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.

(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 ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant incident made 1986 a calamity that altered history forever. 1986 also saw the catastrophic ...

Have you been following the story? What do you think the news and our reactions to it say about America today? By Katherine Schulten See what you remember about this extraordinary year by taking ...

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

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An interesting tidbit about the ship's history is that it played a significant role in recovering the flight recorders from the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986. The submerged submarine ...

This wasn’t an ordinary mission—it was NASA’s so-called “Return to Flight” mission as it took place around a year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed all seven ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Dec. 12, 1967, NASA launched the Pioneer 8 spacecraft on a mission to study the sun ...

The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches ...