Shuttle disaster memories linger in town
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The bronze medallion embedded in the pavement behind the Commercial Bank of Texas is easy to overlook. About the size of a DVD, it barely registers as a bump for the cars pulling into the drive-thru window.
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By Beverly A. Carroll, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jan. 30--The day after the 21st anniversary of the Challenger shuttle  explosion was like any normal day at the Challenger Center at the University  of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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By Kurt Loft, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- When the shuttle Discovery roared and rumbled into the Florida sky Saturday night, tens of thousands who came to watch stood in silent awe of the fire rising before their eyes.
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Judging by the thousands of spectators who made the trek to Mojave to watch SpaceShipOne fly early Monday morning, a lot of people are still interested in space flight.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â
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Veteran TV reporter Bert Case remembers clearly the pop and crash of exploding glass in Biloxi's Buena Vista hotel the night Hurricane Camille ransacked the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 28--Jamestown will just have to wait to go up in space.   With the launch of the shuttle Atlantis delayed by hail damage, a handful of commemorative Jamestown 2007 items have been grounded for at least a couple of months.
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By Martin Merzer and Phil Long, The Miami Herald  Jun. 3--CAPE CANAVERAL -- It's a whole different kind of launch countdown: More than eight years and . . . still counting for many NASA astronauts who have done everything except, you know, fly in space.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 10--The meltdown of astronaut Lisa Nowak is strange and sad. Even though we no longer throw ticker tape parades for NASA astronauts returning from outer space, they still hold a special place in our collective national image.
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September 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy for the flight test community at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Space shuttle Atlantis with its crew of six glides to a safe landing early Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle's nearly flawless mission was filled with strenuous spacewalks and rigorous robotics work on the space station.
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AIR CRASH SURVIVORS REUNITED AN EMOTIONAL reunion of some of the survivors of the Winter Hill air disaster will be screened on BBC1 next week.
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On a steamy afternoon similar to the day 10 years ago when they hugged their loved ones for the last time, relatives of the 230 people who died in a fireball aboard TWA Flight 800 gathered Monday to dedicate the final piece of a memorial to the victims and the rescuers who raced in vain to the crash site.
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Email your nostalgia pictures for this daily feature to mypictures@mrn.co.uk   ON FEBRUARY 1 2003, the US space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background &#151; high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot &#151; seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
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Two years ago, scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field were stunned when the Columbia space shuttle came apart as it returned to Earth.