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Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger disaster, 1986
Alistair Cooke reflects on the life and death of Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian astronaut who was killed in the space shuttle Challenger disaster on 28th January 1986.
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Fri 31 Jan 1986
21:00
BBC Radio 4
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