Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded and broke apart shortly after its launch in 1986, NASA said on Thursday.
The divers contacted NASA after spotting a large, clearly modern object mostly covered in sand at the bottom of the ocean and bearing the shuttle's distinctive tiles, the space agency said in a written statement.
The divers were exploring the sea floor off Florida earlier this year as part of a History Channel documentary called “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters” about the swath of the Atlantic Ocean long subject to myths surrounding the supposed supernatural vanishing of planes and ships.
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