Space Shuttle Challenger: Ten Journeys into the Unknown - Ben Evans - Google Books

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Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic…