NASA'S TOP 10 TRYING MOMENTS

by Dave Mosher
 

Tough Moments

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NASA's space shuttle Challenger disintegrates just moments after launch on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA
 

NASA is a space agency built on pushing scientific, technological and human boundaries. But things haven't always been peachy-keen in the quest to advance the frontiers of humankind.

Throughout the past 50 years of its history, some unwelcome and foundation-shaking challenges have burst onto NASA's scene.

Here Discovery Space presents 10 of NASA's most trying moments -- or, as some might argue in the end, a handful of its biggest triumphs.

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