Tag: Challenger

  • Video: 31 years since Challenger tragedy

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    President Reagan addressed the nation with this speech 31 years ago today, following the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and crew on Jan. 28, 1986.

  • Families, NASA honor fallen astronauts

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago…

  • Reporters remember Challenger coverage

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Media representatives converge on memorial service for Challenger’s crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Jan. 31, 1986. Credit: NASA Veteran CBS News correspondent Bruce Hall was not on the air when the shuttle Challenger blasted off 30 years ago Thursday. It was, after all, the…

  • Challenger remembered

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee, lays a wreath with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in 2014. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Thirty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated in the clear, cold sky high above Cape…

  • Shuttle memorial honors crews, orbiters

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA In the first memorial of its kind, NASA and the families of the 14 men and women who lost their lives aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 have joined together to remember the astronauts with pictures, personal mementos and, in…