Space Shuttle Challenger Fuselage Found by Underwater Film Crew, NASA Says
The space shuttle Challenger takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida in 1986. 73 seconds later the shuttle exploded, killing its seven crew members.
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NASA is confirming wreckage from an ill-fated Space Shuttle mission has been discovered by a film-making crew.
The section of the spacecraft, which exploded and crashed into the ocean in 1986, was found in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, the agency said Thursday in a statement posted online.