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Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 29, 2016: Largest Solar System, Future Missions, and Remembering Our Lost Astronauts
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )…
Challenges We’re Overcoming Following the Challenger Accident
It was thirty years ago, January 28, 1986, that space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing seven…
Rocket Fail Video Shows Human And Technological Risk With Each Launch
What you see above is 32 minutes of something going wrong during each launch. While humanity has been launching things…
‘Obviously A Major Malfunction’: Today Is Anniversary of Challenger’s Explosion
It was on this day (Jan. 28) in 1986 that stunned viewers across the world saw the Challenger space shuttle…
Remembering Apollo 1’s Tragic Anniversary: ‘It Was Too Late From The Beginning’
On this day (Jan. 27) in 1967, NASA astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a…
Rare Amateur Video of Challenger Disaster Surfaces
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news A rare home video that captured the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Shuttle on…
Far Above the World
[/caption] 28 years ago today, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless left the relative safety of Challenger's payload bay and went untethered…