Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102
The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died ...
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Need to expand use of space-based tech to mitigate climate change, disease outbreaks and disaster: study
As India gears up for the big-ticket satellite mission NISAR (Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar), an international study has advocated enhanced use of space-based tools and technologies to tackle ...
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OTD In Space – February 4: STS-63 Launches 'Orbital Debris Calibration Sphere'
On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris Calibration Sphere into orbit around the Earth. The satellite measured just ...
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OTD In Space – February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
This was the second fatal accident of the space shuttle program following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the ...
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KTBS 70th Anniversary: Remembering the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
SHREVEPORT, La - The Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over East Texas as it returned to earth on Feb. 1, 2003. Pieces of Columbia showered there and parts of Louisiana. KTBS was there talking ...
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Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as ...
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'Oh my God, no!' Space shuttle Challenger exploded 39 years ago
29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Jan. 29, 1986. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster ...
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Challenger space shuttle explosion: Remembering disaster 39 years later
it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
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The Day I Learned About Death
White House ‘Gulf of America’ Fight Don’t Let Other Countries Set U.S. Tax Rates Today is the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion upon takeoff, on January 28 ...
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Remembering Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew 39 years later
Today marks 39 years since the Challenger disaster. Thirty-nine years since the pioneers of Challenger “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” to “touch the face of God.” (Space Shuttle ...
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster remembered 39 years later
The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...