While at NBC, Lemon covered the explosion of Space Shuttle Columbia, SARS in Canada and numerous other stories of national and global importance.

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Carrying the aerospace analogy, Simmons says the investigation into this disaster will be akin to that following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

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Bob Graham, a Democrat, and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly, who served under a Republican, are the picks to lead the panel, which could be patterned after past commissions that have investigated incidents such as the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the people said.

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In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.

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To everyone's surprise, they found that the material isn't just coasting away from us in space, as expected in the aftermath of an explosion.

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Here is a selection of log entries that illustrate just how the Coast Guard grappled with a deadly maritime explosion that turned from a search-and-rescue operation to environmental catastrophe in a space of days.

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The space agency also increased the estimated amount of energy released in the meteor's explosion from about 300 to nearly 500 kilotons.

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The album's self-titled track details the explosion of the earth, the loss of "everything we know, " and hopelessly drifting in space.

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The mind-boggling expense, the riskiness and the fragility of our existing space launch capabilies were hammered home to all of us in the aftermath of the Challenger explosion.

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