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Fact check: Seven people died in the space shuttle Challenger disaster
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: There was no deadly Challenger space shuttle explosion At 11:38 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986,...
Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on NASA’s space shuttle after Challenger disaster, dies at 76
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission...
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
NY Post via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAt 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her...
‘Challenger’ Review: How the Space Shuttle Disaster Happened
The Wall Street Journal· 4 weeks agoBOOKSHELF It was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space...
‘My father died in the Columbia space shuttle – it felt like Nasa betrayed him’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe first sign was the countdown clock. On Feb 1 2003, nine-year-old Kaycee Anderson was in the...
Richard Truly, space shuttle astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA man in a dark shirt holds what looks like a cordless phone inside the cockpit of a spacecraft....
The space shuttle was revolutionary for its time. What went wrong?
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The...
New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)
Space via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoAdam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I...
Karol 'Bo' Bobko, former NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions, dies at 85
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoKarol 'Bo' Bobko, who was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle...
Photographer who captured horrifying images of Challenger breaking apart after launch has died
Associated Press via AOL· 8 months agoBruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle...