Space shuttle Challenger explosion remembered, 40 years later

The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...
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The SpaceX explosion that put flights in danger

A JetBlue plane was en route to Puerto Rico when its pilots got word from air-traffic control they were about to fly through a danger zone. The plane initially went into a holding pattern to stay safe ...

It's been 40 years since 7 people were killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion

It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...
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Reagan’s “Orient Express” spaceplane, why NASA’s X-30 National Aero-Space Plane promised Mach 25 and then collapsed

After the Challenger disaster, the US revived an audacious idea, a runway-launched spaceplane that could reach orbit on air-breathing scramjets. This is the rise and fall of the X-30 National ...