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Hawaii to honor homegrown hero

COURTESY NASA / 1986

Ellison Onizuka, left to right, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judy Resnick were Challenger crew members. All seven died in the 1986 explosion, which was blamed on faulty O-rings in the shuttle’s booster rockets.