Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102
The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died ...
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Hidden by clouds, SpaceX launches record-breaking rocket from Cape Canaveral Saturday
Low clouds may have spoiled the view from the ground, but a Falcon 9 set a new record early Saturday as SpaceX pushes ...
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NASA’s Space Tech That Shaped the Cars You’re Driving Today
U nless you’re answering a casting call for the next installment in the Fast and Furious franchise or Elon Musk deciding to ...
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Nasa needs saving from itself – but is this billionaire right for that job?
Nasa astronauts perform maintenance on the International Space Station in 2011 It was a similar story of delays and budget overruns during the development of the Space Shuttle in the 1970s and the ...
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4 Space Missions to Watch in February 2025: NASA, SpaceX and More
It will be launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center and carry various commercial payloads, such as tech and science investigations from NASA and a small data center from lunar ...
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OTD In Space – February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
This was the second fatal accident of the space shuttle program following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the ...
Curvy spaceplane is one step closer to its ISS rendezvous
Milestones like Sierra Space’s Joint Test 10B are needed to confirm Dream Chaser’s “ability to handle specialized payloads ...
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The Day I Learned About Death
LGBT? Today is the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion upon takeoff, on January 28, 1986. We lost seven astronauts that day — the first time we had ever lost any in ...