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About 47% of the Challenger, including two solid-fuel boosters and an external fuel tank, has been recovered since the accident.

The last Challenger mission was commanded by Francis R. “Dick” Scobee and piloted by Michael J. Smith with crew members mission specialists Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, and Judith A. Resnik, payload specialist Gregory B. Jarvis, and teacher S. Christa McAuliffe. The launch was scheduled as the agency’s 25th shuttle mission.

…Manning took a bullet in the chest, three in the abdomen, one in the leg, and one in the foot. One bullet went through his lung, another pierced his liver, and another missed his heart by centimeters. “I should be dead,” Manning said. But he survived. The shooter, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, should not have been there.…