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A soccer ball that was flown aboard the ill-fated launch of the space shuttle Challenger has made it into space 30 years later. Shane Kimbrough photographed the ball on the International Space Station as a tribute to the late Ellison Onizuka, who had taken the ball on the STS-51L mission for his daughter. After its recovery in 1986, the ball was given to a Houston high school where both Onizuka’s and Kimbrough’s children attended.
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