It is believed to be the only amateur film in existence of the world's worst space disaster, recorded in an era before mobile phone cameras, when even home camcorders were rare.
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The tape surfaced after Moss told Wessels last year that he had watched the launch from the front yard of his house in Winter Haven, Florida, about 80 miles from Cape Canaveral.
"I said we needed to talk about it and he just said casually, 'Yeah, I even have it on video'," said Wessels, who was also Moss's pastor before he died from cancer in December.
"He said I could have the tape when he died. It took a while to find someone with an old Betamax video player, then I had to watch four hours of gameshows and sitcoms from the 1980s, but when I found the Challenger film my reaction was that people really have to see this."
Tak - det var spændende at se. Kan huske jeg engang har set en 80'er film om Challenger - husker den også som spændende, men ved ikke om den er så god som jeg husker den.
Tænker du på "SpaceCamp" med Joaquin Phoenix (hans spillefilmsdebut), Kate Capshaw & Tom Skerritt? Den handler godt nok ikke direkte om Challenger, men den havde premiere blot fire måneder efter ulykken - og floppede fælt.
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"Challenger space shuttle disaster amateur video discovered
Vdeo of the 1986 disaster was locked in Florida man's basement for almost 25 years"
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