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Stories about: Challenger

Commemorations for Space Tragedies Start This Week The American space agency has a dark week ahead, beginning on Thursday, January 27. For the next few days, it will commemorate the crews of the space shuttles Columbia and Challenger, lost in the line of duty, as well as the three astronauts that perished during a fire on the Apollo 1 mission. The tragedy that sa... 25 January 2011 02:05 GMT NASA Commemorates Five Years from the Columbia Disaster Only four days ago, the world remembered the events which took place 22 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated into the Earth's atmosphere during a failed launch attempt. Through an unfortunate chain of events, five years ago, the space shuttle Columbia suffered a similar outcome during a re-... 1 February 2008 08:57 GMT Remember Challenger Twenty two years ago, one of the most tragical aeronautical accidents in the history of mankind took place. After only 73 seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger suffered a catastrophic malfunction, leading to the disintegration of the vehicle and the death of its crew of seven. Challenger was originally sc... 28 January 2008 05:01 GMT