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25th anniversary of the explosion of the shuttle "Challenger" (VIDEO)

New York, USA - In which 7 cosmonauts were killed. Yesterday the anniversary of another space tragedy, that of Apollo 1

Today, January 28, 2011, is the 25th anniversary of the death of seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. It was 1986. At 16:38 local time, just 73 minutes after the start of STS-51L mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, a failure of the O-ring gasket, caused a fire that made fail the shuttle's external tank containing liquid hydrogen and oxygen. The...

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