it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

The Challenger disaster, a tragic day in space exploration history, took place on January 28, 1986. Just 73 seconds after ...

​William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the centre responsible for the defective rocket that caused the ...

Cold weather weakened the Challenger's O-rings, causing a seal failure. Hot gases escaped due to the O-ring failure, leading to an explosion. NASA's decision to launch followed established procedures, ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid has a recipe for a perfect page-turning beach read: compelling and complex characters, a strong sense of place, ticking timers, dual timelines and chapter-ending cliff-hangers that ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We just recovered from a freeze that lowered Jacksonville’s temperatures to 26 degrees on Saturday. Thirty-nine years ago, temperatures dipped to eerily similar frigid conditions ...

Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.’ Adam talks about what makes him interested in these types of ...