The Great Ongoing Space Exploration Thread

[LSLGuy]

This might be of interest to the crowd in this thread:

40th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger

Hard to believe. I recall the fifth anniversary. Someone called for a memorial at MIT, but only three people showed up, including me. It was a predicted and avoidable disaster, and has been chronicled in enough places, including Adam Higgibotham’s book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space that came out two years ago. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g-s1-106940/40-years-after-challenger