Challenger disaster remembered 25 years later
Posted Jan 28, 2011 7:27 am.
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Twenty-five years ago, seven astronauts died aboard space shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after liftoff.
NASA officials gathered at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Friday morning to mark the sombre anniversary. Special guests included the widow of Challenger’s commander, June Scobee Rodgers.
Her husband, Dick Scobee, died along with his six crewmates on January 28th, 1986. Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was also among the dead.
Rodgers was instrumental in establishing the Challenger Center for Space Science Education.
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