Credit: United Launch Alliance
Forty years ago, NASA planned to use Centaur upper stages to send shuttle-launched planetary probes beyond low Earth orbit. But five months before its shuttle debut, the Challenger accident happened, reigniting long-simmering safety concerns about flying the liquid-fueled engine with astronauts...
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