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It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded.

The flight director confirms that we are looking at checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done at this point.

This is Mission Control, Houston. We have no additional word at this time.

The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger honored us for the manner in which they lived their lives.

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye,

and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.

And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle and the wind.

Never knowing who to cling to when the rain's heading.

And I would like to know you, but I was just a key.

The candle burned out long before the legend ever did.

A search effort couldn't begin for some 15 minutes after this.

Debris, they said, just kept raining from the sky.

The head of the space shuttle program had no explanations, just sorrow at the tragedy.

At 11.40 a.m. this morning, space program experienced a national tragedy

with the explosion of the space shuttle challenger approximately a minute and a half

after launch from here at the Kennedy Space Center.

Computer enhanced video shows the explosion in detail.

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