File:USS Dewey (DDG-45) with space shuttle SRB nose cone 1986.jpg

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The USS Dewey actually found the nose cone. I was on board her When this phot was taken. We had to wait overnight for the USS Guam to pick it up.

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English: A whaleboat from the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Guam (LPH-9) recovers a nose cone of a solid rocket booster of the crashed space shuttle Challenger on 1 February 1986, 220 km off the coast of Georgia (USA). The guided missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG-45) is standing by.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine February 1986, p. 2.
Author PH3 Thomas E. Butt, U.S. Navy

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