The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1986
A gloomy forecast prompted NASA to scrub Sunday’s scheduled launching of the shuttle mission to send schoolteacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe and others into space, but the sun shone after all and Challenger could have lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center, space agency officials said. The launch, already postponed once because of bad weather, was rescheduled for 6:30 a.m. PST today.
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