Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people who were around in 1986 remember where they were, and what they were doing when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over ...

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...