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"More Like Manslaughter": Remembering The Challenger 38 Years Ago This Week

"More Like Manslaughter": Remembering The Challenger 38 Years Ago This Week

[I didn't realize I originally posted this last year and so took it down...but a few have asked that I repost it so sorry for the double hit. Fresh material on the way]

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"More Like Manslaughter": Remembering The Challenger 38 Years Ago This Week
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[Reprinted from Daily Wire]

January 28, 1986 was one of those dates where everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. Conversational Spanish class at the University of Illinois. No English allowed. So one of the students relayed the shocking information thusly: “El Space Shuttle explotó!” We all looked at each other. “Explotó?” aske…

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