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On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC (11:39:13 a.m. EST, local time at the launch site).
Not included are accidents or incidents associated with intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests, fatality or injury to test animals, uncrewed space flights, rocket-powered aircraft projects of World War II, or conspiracy theories about alleged unreported Soviet space accidents. A piece of the Intelsat 708 satellite in Buck's restaurant.
II-289 NASA retrieval teams recovered the SRBs and returned them to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where they were disassembled and their components were reused on future flights. [3]: II-292 When the Space Shuttle launched, the orbiter and SRBs were connected to the ET, which held the fuel for the SSMEs. [3]:
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, and McAuliffe learned about NASA's efforts to find their first civilian, an educator, to fly into space. [20] NASA wanted to find an "ordinary person," a gifted teacher who could communicate with students while in orbit. [6] [15] McAuliffe became one of more than 11,000 ...
The shuttles docked with Russian space station Mir nine times and visited the ISS thirty-seven times. The highest altitude achieved by the shuttle was 386 mi (621 km) when deploying the Hubble Space Telescope. [3] The program flew a total of 355 people representing 16 countries, and with 852 total shuttle fliers. [4]
Parsons (dark vest) and GALCIT colleagues in the Arroyo Seco, Halloween 1936.JPL marks this experiment as its foundation. [22] [23]In hopes of gaining access to the state-of-the-art resources of Caltech for their rocketry research, Parsons and Forman attended a lecture on the work of Austrian rocket engineer Eugen Sänger and hypothetical above-stratospheric aircraft by the institute's William ...
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.
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut.In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.