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10 Dollars Space Shuttle - Challenger
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars (10 USD) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed profile view of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger in orbital flight, shown in three-quarter perspective against a dark field scattered with eight four-pointed stars arranged in an arc above the orbiter. The shuttle is rendered with fine detail including the payload bay, engine nozzles, and the inscription United States along the fuselage. The legend CHALLENGER arcs along the upper border, the date 1996 appears at the lower left field, and the denomination 10 DOLLARS is inscribed in two lines at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative circulation coinage in 1986, and by the mid-1990s had built an extensive program targeting the collector market rather than domestic commerce. This Challenger piece appeared a decade after the orbiter broke apart 73 seconds into mission STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. The disaster grounded the shuttle program for nearly three years and triggered the Rogers Commission investigation, which traced the failure to O-ring seals on the right solid rocket booster in 31-degree launch temperatures.