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Space Shuttle Challenger

The Space Shuttle is the work horse of NASA. Rockets are far too expensive to simply dispose of. The Challenger was the second shuttle built. It was also the first one lost during a flight. Discover more about the space shuttle Challenger. Don't stop with the first 2 links, there are many more below the advertisement.
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Pictures Gallery
Discover picture of the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission and disaster. These challenger disaster pictures will bring back memories for those of us who remember where we were when the space shuttle challenger disaster happened. These pictures tell the story.
NASA, MIT Announce Professorship Honoring Space Shuttle Challenger's Ron McNair - Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) Disaster
NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are honoring the memory of Challenger astronaut and MIT alumnus Ronald E. McNair by establishing a teaching and research position in his name, the Ronald E. McNair-NASA Visiting Professorship. Ron McNair and his six crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger - Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis, and S. Christa McAuliffe - died on January 28, 1986.

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