Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space

The Register
Jul 26, 2024, 5:33 am295 pts
The eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't need another one of those."…

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