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 ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

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 ...

Our collective memory: A nation watched in horror as the space shutter Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, during a live television broadcast. Reality: No it didn’t, and no it didn’t. Challenger was ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the... 40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons ...

Five days before Challenger's 1986 launch, the shuttle's crew of seven arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, pausing on the tarmac before a gaggle of microphones. Commander Dick Scobee spoke ...

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 ...