Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She wasn’t worried. Newly trained astronaut Judith A. Resnik was a special guest in 1979 when the NASA Lewis Research Center in ...

It was the children Tuesday who helped teacher Barbara Roduner deal with the loss of her childhood friend, astronaut Judith Resnik. "They were so great," Mrs. Roduner said of her second-grade pupils ...

AKRON, Ohio — This week marks 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a tragedy that stunned the nation, halted America’s space program, and forever changed the lives of families, ...

The Challenger wasn’t the nation’s first space tragedy. Reaching for the stars comes with a cost. But this was the first spaceship to break apart on live television, exploding before our very eyes -- ...

NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday to commemorate the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia accidents. The backstory: The annual event is held ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KWTX) - On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff, killing all seven crew members, including Texas resident Judith Arlene Resnik, the second ...

(NBC NEWS/AP) – Today marks the 35th anniversary of the deadly space shuttle Challenger accident. On January 28, 1986, Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral with seven astronauts, including ...