Twenty-four years after the event, what may be the only amateur video shot of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has gone public. A presidential commission resolved the accident took place on a day that was 15-degrees colder than any previous launch … and that the 36-degree launch-time temperature was a contributing factor. Read more at http://www.avweb.com

Vivid memory that will never go away. Jan 28, 1986 was my 12th birthday and we were watching the launch on tv in Mrs Treat’s social studies class.

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    I’m often taken by...universality of this memory, by how many of us—in my generation, at...
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