‘Dallas? You Mean the City?’ 30 Years Since Challenger’s Last Successful Mission (Part 1)

Thirty years ago, next week, shuttle Challenger launched on her final successful mission. Photo Credit: NASA

It is a dismaying fact of history that the name “Challenger”—when spoken in relation to the second spaceworthy vehicle of NASA’s shuttle fleet—is so often associated only with the dreadful catastrophe which snuffed out seven lives on the [...]