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The chaotic days before the Challenger disaster and the terrible aftermath

In the final days of World War II, one of Hitler’s brightest rocket scientists put forward an ambitious plan to attack America. Eugen Sänger’s design, called Silbervogel or “Silver Bird,” was part rocket, part spacecraft. Shaped like a crushed paper plane, it would launch from Germany and enter low earth orbit; From there, it will… Read More »