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STS-51L Shuttle Mission Imagery
Wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger
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51L-S-016 (30 Jan. 1986) --- Wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger, STS-51L mission, retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean by a flotilla of United States Coast Guard and United States Navy vessels was returned to the Trident Basin at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard the USCG Cutter Dallas tonight. Photo credit: NASA

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