This week marks anniversaries for three tragedies for NASA and the United States:
- Apollo 1 – January 27, 1967 – a fire in their capsule during a test on the pad kills three Apollo astronauts:
- Challenger STS 51-L – January 28, 1986 – leak in a seal between segments of a solid fuel rocket booster led to the failure of the vehicle during launch and the deaths of the crew members:
- Columbia STS-107 – February 1, 2003 – damage from falling ice, which had built up on the top of the external tank, to a thermal protection panel on the wing led to failure of the wing during re-entry and the deaths of the crew members:
Here is a sampling of articles and commentary about these events (I will be adding more as the week goes by):
- General:
- Apollo 1:
- Challenger:
- Columbia:
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