Remembering Challenger, 25 years later
Posted Jan 28, 2011 05:47:31 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 somber anniversary. Special guests included the widow of Challenger’s commander, June Scobee Rodgers, one of the featured speaker at the outdoor ceremony.
Her husband, Dick Scobee, died along with his six crewmates on January 28, 1986. Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was among the dead.
Rodgers was instrumental in establishing the Challenger Center for Space Science Education.
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