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The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after lift-off on STS-51-L at an altitude of 15 kilometers (49,000 ft). The investigation found that cold weather conditions caused an O-ring seal to fail, allowing hot gases from the shuttle's solid rocket booster (SRB) to impinge on the external propellant tank and booster strut. The strut ...
The city reached 106 degrees that day. Another person, Steven Jerome “Snoop” Easley, who was homeless, died in his tent on July 4, according to previous Bee reporting.
Police said the child's temperature registered at more than 109 degrees after death. ... 108.8 degrees and then 109.4 degrees. Space heater ... found the child died as a result of of hyperthermia ...
The girl died later at a hospital due to extreme heat. Before they took her for treatment, the paramedics on scene noted that her internal body temperature was 107.2 degrees Fahrenheit (42C).
The International Space Station, as seen by a visiting spacecraft in 2021. This article is a list of accidents and incidents related to the International Space Station (ISS). It includes mishaps occurring on board the ISS, flights to and from the space station, as well as other program related incidents.
The temperatures soared to record highs in July with the hottest weather occurring from July 12 to July 16. The high of 106 °F (41 °C) on July 13 was the second warmest July temperature (warmest being 110 °F (43 °C) set on July 23, 1934) since records began at Chicago Midway International Airport in 1928. Nighttime low temperatures were ...
The mother of a man who died alone in his trailer park home with no air conditioning this week in Sacramento, California, on a day the city reached a high of 106 degrees, has urged others to ...
Gregory Bruce Jarvis (August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and astronaut who died during the January 28, 1986 destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist for Hughes Aircraft.