![Soccer ball recovered from Challenger sent to ISS](http://web.archive.org./web/20170207202236/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/07/16/3CEDDCE300000578-0-image-a-4_1486486574925.jpg)
In 1986, astronaut Ellison Onizuka (pictured on right) boarded the ill-fated Challenger carrying a soccer ball from his daughter’s high school team with him. The ball, signed by the boys and girls of Clear Lake High School soccer, was eventually recovered from the 250,000 pounds of wreckage found in the Atlantic Ocean after the shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. Now, more than 30 years after the tragedy, an image from the International Space Station shared by astronaut Shane Kimbrough reveals the soccer ball has finally made it to orbit.