Challenger Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/challenger/ Covering the business and politics of space Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:53:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Challenger Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/challenger/ 32 32 80681979 The astronaut who filmed the Dream is Alive https://spacenews.com/the-astronaut-who-filmed-the-dream-is-alive/ https://spacenews.com/the-astronaut-who-filmed-the-dream-is-alive/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:53:02 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=557391 Space Minds

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Terry Hart, former NASA astronaut and mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Hart reflects on the triumphs of early shuttle missions, the lessons of the Challenger tragedy, and how those experiences shape today’s commercial space era led by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger. The artifact was […]

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]]> 204395 Challenger’s Soccer Ball Finally Reaches Space https://spacenews.com/challengers-soccer-ball-finally-reaches-space/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:05:45 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=16109

Shane Kimbrough ?@astro_kimbrough This ball was on Challenger that fateful day. Flown by Ellison Onizuka for his daughter, a soccer player @Clear_LakeHS. #NASARemembers

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]]> 458572 A Memorial to Our Fallen Shuttle Family Members https://spacenews.com/a-memorial-to-our-fallen-shuttle-family-member/ Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:02:05 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=13414

Today, NASA and our nation take a step toward the future by honoring our past. The story of humans in space is more than 50 years old, and a major […]

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