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Book Review: 'Challenger' is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy
KAAL Austin· 13 hours agoWhen the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions about who watched the tragedy ...
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
New York Post· 2 days ago“Challenger” follows the key players in a tragedy forever etched on the nation’s consciousness. From...
Boeing Plans To Fly Humans To The ISS Next Week
Science Friday· 4 days agoWhen NASA retired its space shuttle program in 2011, the agency had to find a new way to transport astronauts and ...
Officials describe telltale ‘buzz’ that led to last-minute scrub of Boeing Starliner’s crewed launch
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSpaceX ultimately beat Boeing to the launchpad, carrying out its crewed flight test of the Crew...
What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
New York Times· 19 hours agoSixteen years later, I stood in a classroom of fellow space age kids around a bulky cathode-ray tube TV wheeled in on an A/V cart to watch the launch of...
Ellen Ochoa, Former NASA Astronaut and First Hispanic Woman in Space, Receives Presidential Medal of...
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoAcross her 30-year career, Ochoa flew on four space shuttle missions and led operations as director of NASA’s Johnson Space& ...
The new Space Shuttle
WKMG ClickOrlando· 14 hours agoIn a news release issued Thursday, Sierra Space says Dream Chaser’s pre-flight tests are finished at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio and the...
Final Upgrade: Hubble Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 4
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoThe final servicing mission of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009, known as SM4, marked the...
Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch
The Raw Story· 7 days agoAstronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped in their seats preparing for liftoff when the call for a "scrub" came, in order to give engineers time to investigate unusual readings ...
Boeing’s Starliner launch – delayed again – will be an important milestone for commercial...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBut the mission’s troubled history also shows just how difficult the path to space can be, even for...
