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Mike Smith

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Detailed Information

Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Astronaut
Died
Jan 28, 1986
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
North Carolina
About
Remembered for piloting the Space Shuttle Challenger during its doomed STS-51-L mission, this NASA astronaut had previously served in the Vietnam War and worked as a United States Navy test pilot.
Family
He was born in Beaufort, North Carolina, and he died in the sky above Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the age of forty.

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