New York Times Co. v. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

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• recognizing a survivor privacy interest in “technical and non-personal” audio recording of the crash of the Challenger space shuttle
• finding that the Challenger astronauts' surviving families have \valid and substantial\ privacy interests in the voice communications of the astronauts tape recorded aboard the space shuttle immediately prior to its explosion
• withholding audio recording of final words of astronauts in space shuttle disaster under exemption 6 in part because transcript was already public
• finding information on tapes “sheds absolutely no light on the conduct of any Governmental agency or official”
• finding the existence of a privacy Page 9 of 12 interest on remand
• denying release of recording of voices of Space Shuttle Challenger’s astronauts immediately before their death, finding that “[ejxposure to the voice of a beloved family member immediately prior to that family member’s death is what would cause the Challenger families pain”

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