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Forum: Hardware & Flown Items
Topic: Soccer ball aboard 51L flown to space station

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 02-03-2017 01:17 PM collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-020617a-challenger-soccer-ball-space-station.html">Soccer ball recovered from ill-fated shuttle Challenger flown to space station</a></font> [i]A soccer ball that was on the ill-fated launch of the space shuttle Challenger has made it to orbit 30 years later, thanks to a shared connection between one of the fallen astronauts and the current commander on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the commander of the station's Expedition 50 crew, posted to Twitter Friday (Feb. 3) a photo of the black and white ball floating in front of the windows in the orbiting laboratory's Cupola. His post came less than a week after the anniversary of the Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger tragedy. "This ball was on Challenger that fateful day," Kimbrough wrote. "Flown by Ellison Onizuka for his daughter, a soccer player."[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-020617a-challenger-soccer-ball-space-station.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-020617a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>
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