January 28, 1986: a day that froze America in shock and disbelief. Join us as we examine the Challenger disaster that claimed ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing ...

Most people will never forget where they were when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. Today marks the 39th anniversary of that tragic event, which took ...

The author of a new book about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is coming to Central Florida for a signing event. Simply titled, “Challenger,” Adam Higginbotham took four years to pore through ...

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. AP At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The 1986 late January freeze is one many will never forget, and the consequences of it caused a historic tragedy. Not only did temperatures tumble to 22 degrees in Daytona Beach and 26 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was an unusually cold day for Florida on that date, Jan. 28, 1986. The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time ...

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 ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, live on national television. Behind the tragedy lay ignored warnings, flawed decisions, and a frozen rubber ...

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 ...