Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where is Challenger?
Message-ID: <1989Apr23.000034.7797@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11360@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 00:00:34 GMT

In article <11360@well.UUCP> tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>Here's a question I hope isn't too morbid:  Where have they put
>the remains of Challenger?  I imagine there's years worth of
>things to study, is there an ongoing program for this or is it
>simply mothballed?

The remains, aside from the human remains, are in a couple of disused
ICBM silos at the Cape.  This was intended essentially as permanent
burial in a secure location (to foil souvenir hunters); I don't think
there is any intent to dig them out again.  They'd got pretty much all
the information they expected to get.
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