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40 years since the Challenger explosion
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3:56Now PlayingMost people who were around in 1986 remember where they were, and what they were doing when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.
The accident killed the seven crew members, and halted NASA’s space program for two years.
9NEWS Reporter Gary Shapiro and photojournalist Manny Sotelo were at Cape Canaveral, Florida, doing stories on the launch. They were there with 12 elementary school teachers and students from Colorado, who had won a contest sponsored by Ball Aerospace to watch a shuttle launch in person.
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