Photos: Anniversary of NASA's Worst Tragedies Late January is always a dark time of year for NASA's astronaut program; the anniversaries of its three worst accidents all happen in the same week. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a cockpit fire on Jan. 27, 1967. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. And the space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth Feb. 1, 2003.
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Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling? Micron CEO Killed in Plane Crash Steve Appleton, the CEO of the semoconductor maker Micron Technology, Inc., was killed in a small plane crash at the airport in Boise, Idaho today. He was 51.
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