Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
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NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts.
A reflection on the Jan. 12, 1986, launch of Space Shuttle Columbia’s STS-61-C mission, published on the Challenger anniversary.
Children, students and adults gathered around television sets 40 years ago to watch the Space Shuttle Challenger launch. Seventy-three seconds after the launch, people around the world heard or saw the first major space shuttle disaster,
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She trained to be 1st teacher in space. 40 years later, her mission lives on
Christa McAuliffe trained to be the first teacher in space, preparing to turn a shuttle cabin into the most-watched classroom in America. Forty years after she and six crewmates died when Challenger broke apart shortly after liftoff,
Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been opened to the public for tours. The first space shuttle mission, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center, with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen on board space ...