Space Shuttle Project

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster remembered

The Challenger shuttle disaster that killed 7 crew members was 40 years ago. What happened and how they're being remembered.

Forty years ago, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger set out on a mission to not just launch satellites but to carry the first teacher into space and to inspire the promise of spaceflight into classroom...

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Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

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40 years after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, spaceflight remains far from routine

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Today marks 40th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

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Space shuttle Challenger remembered 40 years after explosion

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40 years later, Susan Horstman recounts seeing space shuttle Challenger disaster

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40 years later: Weather’s role in the Shuttle Challenger tragedy

On a cold, sunny morning in Florida, after several scrubs due to weather, the launch was a highly-anticipated event.

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On this day: Space Shuttle Challenger is lost

On this day in 1986, millions watched on live TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded moments after launch, Eliot Wilson remembers On this day 40 years ago, NASA was preparing to launch the 25th mission of its Space Shuttle programme,

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40 years ago, shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida in deadly tragedy

40 years ago on Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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Challenger Learning Center honors shuttle crew’s legacy 40 years after disaster

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,

Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of space exploration, but was marred by two tragic accidents during the shuttle era.