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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1986
Page
7
A Delta 178 rocket carrying a Geostationary Environmental Satellite exploded soon after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, marking the first Cape launch since the Challenger tragedy and highlighting cold war era space program uncertainties.
The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on January 28. All seven crew members perished including Christa McAuliffe, in a disaster named by a presidential commission as rooted in history and faulty booster joint design. NASA safety reforms followed, the shuttle fleet was grounded through February 1988, and commercial payloads shifted to unmanned rockets.
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