HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Challenger Elementary School planned a special educational event for students to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The program ...
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...
The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...