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Challenger Center and AIA Dedicate Apollo 1 Monument at Arlington National Cemetery

On Thursday, Challenger Center and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) hosted a dedication ceremony for a new monument to honor Apollo 1 Astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White, and Roger ...
Yahoo

Survivors juggle sorrow, hope on NASA’s day remembering Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger's crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith. The seven members of mission 51-L, the ...
Yahoo

NASA marks Apollo, Challenger, Columbia tragedies on annual Day of Remembrance

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in ...
WMUR

NASA holds annual Day of Remembrance to honor crews of Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1

PRESIDENT. KAREN TRAVERS, ABC NEWS THE WHITE HOUSE. NASA IS HOLDING ITS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO HONOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES PURSUING SPACE EXPLORATION. THIS COMES AS WE APPROACH 40 YEARS ...
Florida Today

Shuttle Challenger remembered at 40th anniversary of NASA disaster

A ceremony in Titusville, Florida, honored the 17 astronauts lost in NASA's Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies. The Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after its January 1986 launch, ...
WFAA8

NASA Challenger explosion remembered 37 years later

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's space shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission on Jan. 28, 1986. It exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, claiming the ...