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Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

The 2003 Columbia disaster killed seven astronauts, but these tiny worms somehow survived the impact, and the reason was aluminium

When Space Shuttle Columbiabroke apart on February 1, 2003, all seven astronauts lost their lives. Yet one NASA experiment ...
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Challenger disaster remembered as Artemis II sits on launch pad

The 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster comes as NASA prepares for its next major step in human spaceflight. The Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts around the ...
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Blue Origin wants to launch New Glenn rocket by end of 2026. Can it?

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad in late May during a pre-launch test. The company aims to launch the heavy-lift rocket again before the end of 2026. The cause of the ...
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A month after the New Glenn rocket explosion, Blue Origin clears pad

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine engine test on May 28 at Launch Complex 36. The company's CEO announced that wreckage cleanup was completed in nine days and reconstruction has ...