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There were two fatal- All hands accidents in the Shuttle program. The first one was the Challenger blast- which occured during the launch phase in the upper atmosphere- l986. The second was the Columbia accident which broke up and disintegrated on re-entry over the West Coast- this happened in 2003. One occured on the way up- the other on the descent.l

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