Forty years on, the Challenger disaster remains a case study in what happens when organizations fail to allow for dissent and ...

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Forty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, the disaster remains one of the most consequential tragedies in U.S. spaceflight history.

The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy ...

A new IAEA research project will investigate how artificial intelligence can be used to strengthen non-destructive testing techniques used in disaster response. The project aims to enable faster, ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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Three hours before dawn on February 6, 2023, a 29-year-old pastrymaker named Nuri Imren woke to the sound of his sister screaming. His family’s high-rise apartment in the Turkish city of Antakya was ...

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