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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.
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.
Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up during its 1986 launch resulting in the death of all seven crew members.. This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury.
This category contains entries of ships used to recover space capsules and astronauts from various space programs. Pages in category "Space capsule recovery ships" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The NASA recovery ships are two ships, the MV Liberty Star and the MV Freedom Star, that were tasked with retrieving spent Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) following the launch of Space Shuttle missions. Although owned by NASA, the ships were operated by Space Flight Operations contractor United Space Alliance . [ 3 ]
Mars Scout Program - 2010; Constellation program - 2010; New Millennium Program - 2009; Project Prometheus - 2005; Additional examples. NASA X-38 (Crew Return Vehicle)- 2002 [1] Lockheed Martin X-33 - 2001; HL-20 Personnel Launch System - 1993 [2]
Battleship Cove has lost one of its ships and its executive director. Here's what happened, and how the museum is still carrying on its mission.
He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members were killed when the spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry. At 48, Ramon was the oldest member of the crew.