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The Challenger disaster: Where were you? (The Newsroom)

11:54am GMT, Thursday, 20 January 2011

FILE--File picture from January 28, 1986, shows the explosion of space shuttle Challenger over Cap Canaveral/Florida. The space shuttle with seven astronauts onboard explodet 74 seconds after launch in 16 km height. All occupants were killed. (AP Photo/handout)The Newsroom - On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger blasted off with six astronauts and one schoolteacher. Seventy-three seconds into the launch, an external fuel tank detached and tore apart, creating a huge fireball that enveloped the shuttle. Two minutes and …



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