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    Remembering the Challenger

    •January 28, 2013
    • FILE--File picture from January 28, 1986, shows the explosion of space shuttle Challenger over Cap Canaveral/Florida. The space shuttle with seven astronauts onboard explodet 74 seconds after launch in 16 km height. All occupants were killed. (AP Photo/handout)
    • Morton Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly, appearing before the House Committee on Science and Technology, details his objections to the launch of space shuttle Challenger when he learned of freezing temperatures at Kennedy Space Center in Washington, June 17, 1986. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
    • NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial January 28, 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Challenger exploded shortly after take-off January 28, 1986, killing the entire crew. They are:  Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. O'Keefe also used the occasion to remember the crew of Apollo 1, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, who died in a fire on the launch pad on January 27, 1967.  (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images)
    • Stephen Feldman, at podium, president and CEO of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation speaks in front of the memorial during a rememberance ceremony to mark the 25th Anniversary of space shuttle Challenger explosion at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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    Roger Boisjoly

    NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial January 28, 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Challenger exploded shortly after take-off January 28, 1986, killing the entire crew. They are: Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. O'Keefe also used the occasion to remember the crew of Apollo 1, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, who died in a fire on the launch pad on January 27, 1967. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images)

    The NASA lost seven of its own on the morning of

    Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle

    Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. (Reuters)