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On this day in 1986 – January 28th – NASA's space shuttle Challenger was engulfed in a huge fireball soon after launch. The seven crew members perished in the accident.

They are commemorated at the Astronaut Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida


Mona Evans
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