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Remembering Ron McNair and the Challenger Crew
Today is the 27th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. On January 28, 1986, mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when a O-ring failure in one of the solid rocket boosters allowed hot combustion gases to leak from the side of the booster and burn through the external fuel tank, causing an explosion exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing the crew and destroying the shuttle.
On board was a crew of seven. Here, we remember especially physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. This video is part of StoryCorps, a national oral history project, that you can hear on NPR (National Public Radio) in the US. (…)
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