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Challenger Robert talks with Dan Gibbons, an officer with the Cocoa Beach, Florida Police Department. This morning, Gibbons responded to a call at eight in the morning about a strange object on a local beach. When he arrived, he realized that the object was in fact a part of the space shuttle Challenger. By the end of the morning, two pieces of the Challenger had been recovered and taken back to NASA.

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Challenger

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Robert talks with Dan Gibbons, an officer with the Cocoa Beach, Florida Police Department. This morning, Gibbons responded to a call at eight in the morning about a strange object on a local beach. When he arrived, he realized that the object was in fact a part of the space shuttle Challenger. By the end of the morning, two pieces of the Challenger had been recovered and taken back to NASA.