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Which shuttle crashed first?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Challenger was the first shuttle to be destroyed on January 28, 1986. It was destroyed not by crashing, but because of an explosion caused by the rupture of it's fuel tank.

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