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Rare Amateur Video of Challenger Disaster Surfaces

February 24, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Visit msnbc.com for breaking news A rare home video that captured the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986, has been found. Bob Karman and his family were on a return trip from vacation to Disney World, [...]

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Far Above the World

February 12, 2012

28 years ago today, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless left the relative safety of Challenger’s payload bay and went untethered into orbit around Earth, venturing farther than anyone ever before. The historic photo above was taken when McCandless was 320 feet from the orbiter — about the length of an American football field, or just shy [...]

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Challenger Pictures

August 25, 2010

Here are some stunning Challenger pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is a nice view of the Challenger space shuttle backdropped by the planet earth. This image was taken by the SPAS [...]

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Space Shuttle Challenger Pictures

August 25, 2010

Here are some cool space shuttle challenger pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is an image of the space shuttle Challenger as it rises further away from the earth’s horizon for the [...]

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Challenger Disaster

August 20, 2010

The space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on occurred on January 28, 1986. The shuttle broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean just 73 seconds after lifting off from its launch pad in Florida. All seven crew members were lost. The disaster was precipitated by the failure of an o-ring assembly in the right solid rocket booster. [...]

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