<P> The mountain range Challenger Colles on Pluto was named in honor of the victims of the Challenger disaster . </P> <P> The Challenger Columbia Stadium in League City, Texas is named in honor of the victims of both the Challenger disaster as well as the Columbia disaster in 2003 . </P> <P> Until 2010, the live broadcast of the launch and subsequent disaster by CNN was the only known on - location video footage from within range of the launch site . More recently, as of March 15, 2014, seven other motion picture recordings of the event have become publicly available: </P> <Ul> <Li> a professional black - and - white NASA video recording closely showing the breakup and the subsequent remote detonation of one of the booster rockets . </Li> <Li> a video recording by Jack Moss from the front yard of his house in Winter Haven, Florida, 80 miles (130 km) from Cape Canaveral </Li> <Li> a video recording by Ishbel and Hugh Searle on a plane leaving from Orlando International Airport, 50 miles (80 km) from Cape Canaveral, was posted by their daughter Victoria Searle on January 30, 2011 along with an interview taken on January 28, 2011 by Ishbel and Hugh Searle </Li> <Li> a video recording by Bob Karman from Orlando International Airport, 50 miles (80 km) from Cape Canaveral </Li> <Li> a Super 8 mm film recorded by then - 19 - year - old Jeffrey Ault of Orange City, Florida, at the Kennedy Space Center, 10 miles (16 km) from the launch </Li> <Li> a video recording by Lawrence Hebert of Electric Sky Films, filmed at the Kennedy Space Center, 10 miles (16 km) from the launch, uncovered in March 2012 </Li> <Li> a video recording by Steven Virostek uncovered in May 2012 </Li> <Li> a video recording by Michael and Frances VanKulick of Melbourne, Florida was made public in 2014 . </Li> </Ul>

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