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...This has been a long two years," Truly said of the difficult period since the Challenger accident in 1986. Liftoff was scheduled...
...four-day Discovery mission will be the first shuttle flight since Challenger exploded in a fireball 73 seconds after liftoff from the same launch pad on Jan. 28, 1986. The accident ceded manned space to the Soviet Union, which has put 16 cosmonauts into orbit since then, aboard six flights...
Program managers have been grooming Discovery for the first shuttle flight since the loss of Challenger and its crew of seven in an explosion 73 seconds after liftoff on January...
Seven crew members died when Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff...
Arnold Aldrich, the number-two man in the shuttle program, said he rejected an objection on the morning of the January 28 liftoff by Rockwell International that ice on Pad 39B made conditions "not safe to launch...