For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made it ... Rockwell used the mostly wood and plastic model rocket as a fitting tool before adding and adjusting the real deal.

Perhaps the best set on the market currently is the huge and realistic Artemis Space Launch System, which is based on NASA's actual rocket ... own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery ...

Dad was an aerospace engineer, and I have it on good authority that there was a model ... as the space shuttle. [Courtesy Ted Huetter] The shuttle was launched on the back of a rocket, then ...

The explosion led to the grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet for nearly three years, during which various safety measures, solid rocket booster redesign and a new policy on management decision ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... after a failure in the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster.

On that chilly January day in 1986, students and teachers across the nation waited in awe and wonder, primed to watch and learn from the first teacher in space ... shuttle’s right solid rocket ...