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Wreckage from the Challenger shuttle disaster discovered off Florida coast.
Divers found the 20-foot section bearing Challenger’s distinctive tiles on Thursday. The space shuttle exploded shortly after launch in 1986.
“This discovery gives us an opportunity to pause once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost, and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
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