The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster saw the spacecraft disintegrate during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members in a tragic and preventable incident ...
On Jan. 28, 1986, the 25th space shuttle mission Challenger left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as millions of ...
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.