Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire, was selected by NASA to be the first teacher to go into space aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger. Forty years ...

Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986. Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old teacher from New ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Decades after she was picked to be America's first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer — this time as the first woman to be memorialized on the grounds of New ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

It's been 40 years since seven people lost their lives when the Challenger space shuttle exploded minutes after launching from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The disaster claimed the lives of Christa ...

The space shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff on January 28, 1986. Forty years ago this week, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Then, 73 ...

Concord Monitor Editor Jonathan Van Fleet delivers opening remarks at the Christa's Legacy panel hosted in partnership with the Discovery Center at NHTI on Jan. 28, 2026. From left to right: panelists ...

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe. It was a devastating blow to the U.S. space ...

This browser does not support the Video element. Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event ...

Thirty years later, Steve Fifer remembers the tragedy like it was yesterday. On Jan. 28, 1986, the Challenger space shuttle crashed and killed seven people aboard — including the first civilian in ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into... Lessons and failures from the Challenger space shuttle ...