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The dawn air battle that turned the skies over Kursk into a slaughterhouse

In the early hours of July 5th, 1943, a massive Soviet preemptive air strike aimed to destroy the Luftwaffe on the ground ...

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...