Article: PHOTOS OF SHUTTLE WRECKAGE RELEASED.(Main)

Byline: New York Times

Seven years after the Challenger disaster killed seven astronauts, including a schoolteacher, the space agency has been forced to release some of the many photographs it took of the shuttle's pulverized crew cabin.

Forty-eight pictures of the wreckage, which was recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral, Fla., appear to show nothing startling about the fate of the Challenger and its crew. But they could eventually help aerospace engineers design safer spaceships.

The photos were released on Feb. 3 to Ben Sarao, a New York City artist who had sued the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

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