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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The space shuttle Challenger STS-51L spaceflight ended in tragedy on Jan. 28, 1986 73 seconds after liftoff. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. ... Flight director Jay Greene learns that Space Shuttle Challenger has met with disaster, January 28, 1986. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.
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January 28, 2000 marks the 14th anniversary of the explosion of SpaceShuttle Challenger disaster, which killed seven astronauts and grounded the shuttle fleet for 20 months. ... At 11:38 a.m. EST on January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from the launch pad 39B at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center.
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A decade after this national tragedy, the World Wide Web hosts a variety of resources reviewed at this Challenger Accident homepage, created by the Space Policy Project of the Federation of American Scientists. ... Heretofore Unpublished Photos of the Challenger Tragedy...
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The space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986 killing all seven astronauts aboard. ... View the Challenger explosion sequence (Quicktime format, 387K): ... Challenger Movie - play in slow motion to see the orbiter fuselage emerge from the fireball...
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Twenty years after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the disaster is often remembered in ways that owe more to myth and misconception than to the truth. ... Few people actually saw the Challenger tragedy unfold live on television.
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Proceed to Ronald Reagan's Shuttle Challenger Address...
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