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. William Ray Lucas was 102.
Space shuttle Discovery successfully launches Sunday in dusk light show
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...
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China to launch 2 new space station cargo spacecraft on commercial rockets in 2025
HELSINKI — China will launch a pair of low-cost space station resupply ... capacity via the Shenzhou crew spacecraft. Low cost "Haolong"/昊龙 cargo shuttle concept from–curiously– AVIC ...
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Challenger space shuttle explosion: Remembering disaster 39 years later
Approximately a minute, half after launch from here at the ... from the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident indicated the crew probably survived the fuel tank blast ...
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OTD In Space – January 28: Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes After Launch
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift off, killing the seven crew members on board ... on the morning of the launch. The disaster resulted in a 32-month ...
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NASA Challenger explosion remembered 39 years later
The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia ... unusually cold temperatures on launch day. The tragedy led to a ...