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Challenger disaster: Remembering the tragic space shuttle explosion on January 28, 1986, and its lasting impact
The Challenger disaster was caused by the failure of an O-ring in one of the solid rocket boosters, leading to an explosion just 73 seconds after launch. Who were the crew members of the ...
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40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
The five crew members launched on the three-day ... pause for thought – it could easily have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year later. Managers had delayed the lift-off due to unseasonably ...
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Thirty years after Return To Flight from Challenger,…
As the investigation into and recovery from the Challenger disaster proceeded in the summer ... The five member flight crew then travelled to KSC for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test ...
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Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102
The explosion killed all seven crew members ... across the country were watching the Challenger's launch and witnessed the televised disaster in real time. A presidential commission charged ...
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NASA's Day of Remembrance: Three tragedies that shook the space program
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...
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Books You Should Read: Feynman’s Appendix To The Challenger Disaster Report
It isn’t really a book, but Richard Feynman’s Appendix to the Challenger Disaster Report is still definitely something you should read. It’s not particularly long, but it’s educational ...