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This Day in History: Nixon authorizes $5.5 million to launch space shuttle program
06 Jan 2026 04:11 GMT
… NASA’s first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, made its … expanding the fleet to include Challenger, Discover, Atlantis and Endeavour … 1986, the world witnessed Challenger explode on live television … Earth’s atmosphere.
The space shuttle program ended for good …
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Community theater honors 40th anniversary of Challenger disaster in ‘Defying Gravity’
09 Jan 2026 16:45 GMT
… a philosophical journey around the Challenger space shuttle disaster, which broke apart 73 …
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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Texas may get a moonship, not space shuttle Discovery
31 Dec 2025 18:48 GMT
… proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from … respectively. Two other shuttles, Challenger and Columbia, were lost in … just for the move.
Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop a … damage to the spacecraft.
Space shuttle Discovery on display at the …
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Quote of the day by American Physicist Richard P Feynman: ‘I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong’
17 Jan 2026 11:28 GMT
… the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. He also helped lay …
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Returning to the scene of the Challenger explosion, with a NH journalist who was there
07 Jan 2026 17:21 GMT
… 40 years ago, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart, claiming the … tower. Control program. Shuttle Challenger. Roger, roll. Can … grandstand. Confirmed. And the Challenger down range. Smoke billowing … away from the actual space shuttle.
WOKQ archival tape: …
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‘Final Flight': Challenger Center to mark tragedy 40 years later
06 Jan 2026 16:49 GMT
… the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy.
The center has several … ."
The story of the space shuttle Challenger tragedy
For millions of Americans … to inspire a generation as Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space …
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Anniversary of Star Trek brings back basement memories
17 Jan 2026 06:43 GMT
… system.
I remember watching the space shuttle Columbia launch for the first … to hear news of the Challenger explosion.
Then the space program …
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Sybert retires after 43-year career at Butler Eagle
17 Jan 2026 05:36 GMT
… in the newsroom when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 and as …
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Challenger Center to mark 40 years since shuttle disaster with several events
31 Dec 2025 22:58 GMT
… commemorate the crew of the Challenger Space Shuttle, 40 years after the tragic … weather before the launch.
The Challenger crew consisted of: Commander Francis … here in Tallahassee.
Photo: LCSO
Challenger Learning Center Space Simulator
Tallahassee …
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From The Executive Director | Spacing out with Fraggle Rock
16 Jan 2026 14:55 GMT
… . Judith Resnik flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984 and was … who perished tragically on the Space Shuttle Challenger two years later.
In 1985 … flew on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. This is …
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