NASA Exhibits Space Shuttles Challenger, Columbia Debris for First Time

[Frybert]

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-exhibits-space-shuttles-challenger-columbia-debris-first-165614869.html

"Artifacts recovered from the wreckages of NASA's Challenger and Columbia space shuttles are for the first time now on public display, part of a powerful new exhibit that is intended to honor the two winged spacecraft and their fallen astronaut crews.

NASA officials joined family members of the fallen crews Saturday (June 27) to open "Forever Remembered," a new permanent exhibit installed under the retired space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The solemn display, developed in secret over the past several years, serves to memorialize the 14 men and women who lost their lives on Challenger's and Columbia's ill-fated missions, STS-51L in 1986 and STS-107 in 2003, respectively."

http://gizmodo.com/nasas-put-space-shuttle-wreckage-into-this-heartbreakin-1714614332

Edited June 29, 2015 by Frybert
Added second link with better pictures

[HoloYolo]

RIP all lives lost not only with STS, but with all flight failures.

[G'th]

Oh wow I'm surprised I'm only just hearing about this. Definitely going to have to go and see it when I head up to the center again.

[MacGamer04]

RIP to all 19 Americans (that I know of) that have died in space-related accidents. Listed from first to last as follows:

Apollo I: Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom, Edward White

X-15 Spaceplane: Michael J. Adams

STS-51-L Space Shuttle Challenger: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Francis Scobee, and Michael Smith

STS-107 Columbia: Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon.

SpaceShip 2: Michael Alsbury

(dang there were a lot of Michaels that died in the space program..note to self: Don't name your kids Michael)