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The Challenger space shuttle was destroyed when its external fuel tank exploded less than a minute
after launch. Both objects were torn into fragments of varying sizes, and rained into the ocean off the
Florida coast of the Kennedy Space Center. There was little in the way of ballistic trajectory involved ...
nothing left the earth's atmosphere, and nothing achieved earth orbit. Nothing reached altitudes beyond
those of ordinary commercial airliners. All debris was in the water in a few minutes.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoChallenger was a US Space Shuttle- it's missions took place in low earth orbit, in which it made one rotation about every 90 minutes, 1.5 hours, depending on its altitude.
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