Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith. The seven members of mission 51-L, the 25th space shuttle ...
The Columbia Memorial Space Center will host Astronaut Commemoration Day on Saturday, Jan. 24, offering a free, daylong ...
Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago ...
Families and friends gathered at the Kennedy Space Center to commemorate the Challenger disaster's 40th anniversary, which ...
NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...
Today is the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, which blew apart as it was gliding across Texas to a Florida landing. All seven crew members died, and Texans were poking ...
It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...
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