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The Challenger Crew: 73 Seconds From Disaster

Uploaded 02-09-21

2 Sep 2021

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The names that live on.

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Source/Further reading:

NASA, remembering Challenger and her crew: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/35-years-ago-remembering-challenger-and-her-crew 

Official website maintained by families of the crew: https://www.challenger.org/who-we-are/#about_us 

Biography, the Challenger crew: https://www.biography.com/news/challenger-explosion-crew-astronauts-names-list 

History, the Challenger Disaster: https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/challenger-disaster  

Ronald McNair bio: https://www.kent.edu/mcnair/life-ronald-e-mcnair 

NPR, memories of McNair: https://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133275198/astronauts-brother-recalls-a-man-who-dreamed-big 

Onizuka Memorial bio: https://onizukamemorial.org/biography 

Resnik bio: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us/two-paths-to-the-stars-turnings-and-triumphs-judith-resnik.html 

Memories of Resnik: https://www.challenger.org/2016/01/27/my-aunt-judy-resnik/  

Scobee obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/11/us/3-boys-dreams-of-space-3-deaths-in-the-sky-dick-scobee.html 

Mike Smith obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/11/us/3-boys-dreams-of