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Full Description: On January 28, 1986, the Challenger space shuttle and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right solid rocket booster caused an explosion soon after launch. This photograph, taken a few seconds after the accident, shows the main engines and solid rocket booster exhaust plumes entwined around a ball of ...
Space Shuttle and other solid-fuel vehicles: Bruce Halker and Roy Westerfield lost their lives in the PEPCON disaster, an explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid-fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers. 27 July 1989: Kennedy Space Center, US 1 Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle mission, named STS-51-L, was the twenty-fifth Space Shuttle flight and the tenth flight of Challenger. [3]: 6 The crew was announced on January 27, 1985, and was commanded by Dick Scobee. Michael Smith was assigned as the pilot, and the mission specialists were Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, and Ronald McNair.
The space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, a tragedy that hit close to home in Akron, which lost city native and astronaut Judith Resnik.
The shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space. The space shuttle was ...
Today we remember the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. The disaster led to the deaths of ...
STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in addition to observing Halley's Comet for six days and performing a routine satellite deployment.
This angle places a greater degree of emphasis on the SRB plume which set into motion the failure of the tank that would cause the loss of the shuttle and tank less than two minutes into the launch. Articles in which this image appears Space Shuttle Challenger disaster FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there ...