Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

January 28, 1986

The last known photo of Challenger crew boarding the space shuttle. The crew consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The exact timing of the crew's death is unknown; several members of the crew are known to have survived the spacecraft's breakup, but there was no escape system, and the impact of the crew compartment at terminal velocity with the ocean surface was too violent for anyone to have survived.

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