Daily Archives: February 10, 2011

And then I saw the name painted on the side: Chal­lenger. The story came back to me. All of the shut­tles had train­ers for backup. After the dis­as­ter, it was just assumed the train­ing shut­tle would be upgraded, out­fit­ted for space and pushed into ser­vice as a replace­ment vehi­cle. But to honor the men and women of the Chal­lenger, NASA ulti­mately decided that there would be no more Chal­lengers in space. Con­tinue read­ing →