# The Great Ongoing Space Exploration Thread

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**Tags:** science-math\
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-space-exploration-thread/925703 "2020-11-16T12:18:17Z")\
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This might be of interest to the crowd in this thread:

> [@40th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40th-anniversary-of-the-explosion-of-the-space-shuttle-challenger/1027118):
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> Hard to believe. I recall the fifth anniversary. Someone called for a memorial at MIT, but only three people showed up, including me. It was a predicted and avoidable disaster, and has been chronicled in enough places, including Adam Higgibotham’s book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space that came out two years ago. [https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g-s1-106940/40-years-after-challenger](https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g-s1-106940/40-years-after-challenger)

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