Previously Unpublished Photos Of Challenger Disaster Discovered
Michael Hindes of West Springfield, MA, was sorting through boxes of his grandparents’ old photographs when he happened upon 26 harrowing photos of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster of 1986. To his knowledge, these photos have never been publicly released.
Hindes had been searching for photographs to include in a memorial service for his grandmother, who passed away last week. “We were all going through boxes and boxes of photos to find pictures to display,” Hindes wrote in the reddit thread where he originally posted the photos. “I just happened to get the box with the Challenger pictures at the bottom, which was kind of special for me because I am the biggest NASA fan in the family.”
In an e-mail to io9, Hindes clarified that the photographs had been captured the morning of January 28th, 1986 by a friend of his grandfather, who worked for NASA as an electrician on the Agency’s hulking, spacecraft-schlepping crawler transporters. “The man who took the pictures was part of [my grandfather’s crew],” Hindes told io9. “He gave a copy of the set to my grandfather.” The photos later became jumbled up with others, and were forgotten about for years – until Hindes came upon them just a few days ago.
All 26 photos can be viewed at io9.
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