New Nasa Museum Exhibit Features Pieces From Challenger And Columbia Disasters

Over its six decades of taking on dangerous missions, NASA has suffered thankfully few tragedies that resulted in the loss of life—the Apollo 1 accident, plus the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. NASA’s Johnson Space Center is now paying tribute to those shuttle missions, STS-51 and STS-107, in a new exhibit that displays debris from the shuttle disasters as a memorial to the lives lost. This is the first time wreckage from either disaster has been put on public display. (The command service module for Apollo 1 is at NASA’s Ames facility, but not on display.) The exhibit features a fuselage section from Challenger and a flight deck window from Columbia, as well as personal effects from the seven lives lost in each accident. The 2,000 square foot memorial, Forever Remembered, is now a permanent display at Johnson.Source: GizmodoJohn WenzWriterJohn Wenz is a Popular Mechanics writer and space obsessive based in Philadelphia. He tweets @johnwenz.