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January 28, 2006
What Price Space? (Challenger)
Twenty years ago (1986) on this day, NASA'a STS-51-L mission crew, astronauts Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis, were lost when the space shuttle Challenger's right booster rocket broke free and collided with the main fuel tank causing the vehicle to explode seventy-three seconds after lift-off.
![[ image: STS-51-L Challenger Mission Patch ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/STS_51_L_patch.png)
Posted by Tacitus at January 28, 2006 05:49 PM