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Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle ... was deployed. Columbia's next mission would be STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. As for the issues seen during the launch, NASA noted that ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies ... including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. The Apollo 1 launch pad fire claimed three astronauts ...

only the Defense Department and NASA saw their budgets increase in those years. The launch of the space shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981. What convinced Carter to do that is subject to some ...

Christa McAuliffe was killed along with another six NASA crew members when the shuttle broke up 73 seconds into its flight. In 2003, damage to Columbia’s protective heat panels during launch ...