I bought “Remove Before Flight” tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they’re from Challenger

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Forty years ago, a stack of bright red tags shared a physical connection with what would become NASA’s first space shuttle disaster. The small tags, however, were collected before the ill-fated launch of Challenger, as was instructed in bold “Remove Before Flight” lettering on the front of each. What happened to the tags after that […]

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