The Nation - News from Dec. 12, 1986
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To prevent destruction of evidence that may be needed in two lawsuits, the general counsel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ordered engineers not to cut up wreckage of the shuttle Challenger for storage. Starting about Jan. 1, NASA plans to start storing Challenger’s wreckage in two abandoned Minuteman missile silos at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. However, engineers had said that some of the debris was too large to fit inside the 12-foot-wide launching tubes.
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