Seventy three seconds after blast-off, the shuttle Challenger exploded and killed all seven astronauts on board. The explosion ws the greatest loss ever for the American space program, and was later blamed on faulty o-rings in the booster rocket. In 2003 the shuttle Columbia disintegrated on ...
It was reported that astronauts were alive for 73 s after takeoff up to the explosion and their last words were "Uh-Oh". It was dubbed as a "minor miracle" by the media and NASA. The paper provides a summary of investigations carried out by the IBM team and lessons learned....
As with the Apollo 1 fire, lack of escape provisions eventually doomed those crewmembers still alive after the explosion. Ejection seats that could have been used had been removed from all Space Shuttles after the first four qualification flights when the number of crew members was increased ...
The mid-January evening that Ellison came to pick up the ball was one of those nights he was supposed to be in quarantine. Janelle hadn't seen him for weeks; the astronauts were kept isolated before missions to avoid getting sick. But there he was, jogging across the practice fie...
The cabin of the spaceship survived the explosion.(Kreiss) Not only that, young children may experience post-traumatic stress toward spaceflight. Where right after the explosion, according to Terr’s investigation, “younger children had more fears and reported more instances of post-traumatic play ...