Patrick Welborne collection, 1935-1986.

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Patrick Welborne collection, 1935-1986.

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Three letters from Florida residents to a Kalamazoo teacher giving eyewitness accounts of the Challenger spacecraft explosion, January 28, 1986. Photocopies of photographs taken in 1935 of Amelia Erhart visitng Western Illinois College (Macomb, Ill.). Correspondence about Challenger spacecraft explosion, 1986. Photocopies of photographs of Ameilia Earhart, 1935.

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Welborne, Patrick,

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Western illinois university

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Challenger (Spacecraft)

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Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983 and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...