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Challenger began its life as STA-099, a test vehicle, above, designed to explore the stress limits of a lighter-weight frame that engineers at NASA and its contractor Rockwell had

The Challenger Shuttle 25 Years Later

Before its tragic end on January 28, 1986 NASA vehicle OV-099 was the workhorse of the shuttle fleet

Watching Apollo 11 Liftoff

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