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[Opinion] NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster it was never quite the same

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Opinion by Douglas Brinkley (CNN) — Around the start of this century, the world counted only two major players in manned space exploration: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency. Ten years later, the heavens were crowded by comparison, with a number of private companies vying to restart the space race with Russia. Internationally, China had regular manned missions and the United Arab Emi…

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NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster it was never quite the same

The disintegration of the Columbia space shuttle on February 1, 2003, was a turning point for the American space program, writes Douglas Brinkley. Seventeen years after the Challenger burned just after liftoff, the deadly failure of the Columbia broke the faith that the American people had in NASA.

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KIFI broke the news in Idaho Falls, United States on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
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