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• March 2003: The space shuttle Atlantis is lifted in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• Feb. 1, 2003: Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas.
• Columbia crew, Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson and Ilan Ramon.
• Jan. 28, 1986: Space shuttle challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff on at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
• Jan. 28, 1986: Four crew members of the Space Shuttle Challenger walk from their quarters at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
• Dec. 1972: Eugene Carnan drives the Lunar Roving Vehicle during part of the Apollo 17 extravehicular activity on the moon.
• July 20, 1969: Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon.
• July 20, 1969: Edwin Aldrin poses for fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong, who shot this photo during their moon walk.
• Jan. 27, 1967: The charred interior of Apollo I after a fire killed astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Virgil Grissom.
• June 8, 1965: Astronaut Ed White moves away from his Gemini 4 capsule during a spacewalk.
• Feb. 20, 1962: A rocket with the Mercury capsule Friendship 7, piloted by Col. John Glenn, blasts off from Cape Canaveral.
• Feb. 23, 1962: John Glenn, right, shows President Kennedy his "Friendship 7" space capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn climbs into his Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• Feb. 1, 1961: Space chimpanzee Ham sits in a capsule that carried him on a 420-mile ride through space.