The Observer magazine - Challenger cover (9 February 1986)

The Observer magazine - Space Shuttle Challenger cover (9 February 1986)
Good condition for age - discolouration to page edges - very light age wear - light bending at spine

THE LAST FRONTIER - The fatal final moments of Challenger
4 page photo feature
(includes half-page photo of the seven astronauts just before boarding their spacecraft)

ALONG THE BLOODY BORDER - Colin Smith and photographer Alain Le Garsmeur take a trip through some of Europe's prettiest but most bitterly disputed countryside - the Irish frontier
Ten and a half pages

RUMER GODDEN - 2 pages

YEAR IN, YEAR OUT - Taking a gap year between school and college can be a good way to recharge your batteries after A-levels. But is it a risky decision? Helen Pickles talked to five students who made the break about how and why they did it.
Featuring Jane Rand, Malcolm Tilbe, Tricia Ridges, Simon Cuerden, Piers Northam
2 pages