Shuttle Challenger Shock Still Reverberating

Gene Kranz, the NASA flight director who led the heroic effort to bring the crew of Apollo 13 home alive, says the loss of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 continues to afflict the U.S. space program. “The Challenger accident set us back where we no longer could support the [Defense Dept.], we...

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