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Feb
21

NASA Names Lunar Craters For Challenger Shuttle Astronauts

LOLA image of craters named in memory of the Space Shuttle Challenger Astronauts

NASA has named craters in the lunar Apollo Basin, part of the Aitken Basin region, after the astronauts lost in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. Below is a labeled photo of this region on the Moon. Apollo is a roughly 500 km-diameter impact basin located toward the center of the the giant South Pole-Aitken basin …

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