NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.

Well, we won't even get into that one. But for Gen X, one event stands above the rest: The 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, which many witnessed live on television as mere ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger ... with me in my train car through the Loop had probably watched the shuttle explode on the news at work that afternoon multiple times.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

Read The numbers are notable - 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St ...

The park in southeast Harris County was dedicated in 1986 to honor seven NASA astronauts who died in the explosion of the ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

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