Survivors juggle sorrow, hope on NASA’s day remembering Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1

It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot ...
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Could Atlantis have saved Columbia, inside NASA’s 2003 rescue plan and the foam strike that doomed STS-107

A foam strike 82 seconds after launch set Columbia on a fatal course, but a 2003 investigation explored a last-minute ...

NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...
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40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...