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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster explained

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
NPR

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...
The Durango Herald

Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...
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July 27, 2005: NASA grounds the space shuttles

During its July 26, 2005, launch, cameras captured a large piece of foam falling from space shuttle Discovery's fuel tank.