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1. On what date did the Challenger disaster take place?
2. What was the profession of Christa McAuliffe, one of two non-Federal government employees on the shuttle?
3. Christa McAuliffe was one out of approximately how many applicants for the position?
4. How many times had NASA successfully launched a space shuttle before the Challenger disaster?
5. Who was the pilot of Challenger that day?
6. How many seconds after take-off did the shuttle explode?
7. How many Solid Rocket Boosters did the Challenger have?
8. What equipment was determined to have failed on the Challenger and was a major reason for the accident?
9. What shuttle was the first to be launched after the Challenger disaster, on September 29, 1988, nearly three years later?
10. Finish this quote from Ronald Reagan: 'We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them...as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch ___ ___ ___ ___ '?
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