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Challenger, International Space Station

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

A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest mechanical stress in the lower atmosphere. The vehicle broke apart in flight and exploded into a fireball. All seven aboard the shuttle were killed, and searches revealed no sign of the crew.

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

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Editorial: Nation marks 40 years since space shuttle Challenger disaster

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Cothrum: The Challenger disaster is still incomprehensible after 40 years

The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy ...

Long Island educators — grade schoolers in '86 — recall lessons learned in class watching Challenger disaster

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion stirs the memories of Long Island educators who watched the disaster on ...

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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‘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 ...

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US Mint releases Space Shuttle $1 gold coin

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Space Shuttle flew on 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. While the coin’s front displays the series’ Statue of Liberty ...

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