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About 72 seconds into Challenger's flight, there was a massive, almost explosive, burning of the hydrogen that was streaming from the failed tank bottom, combined with liquid oxygen leaking from a part of the fuel tank known as the intertank. Under severe aerodynamic loads, thespace shuttle C...
After the space shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in a fiery, catastrophic explosion on January 28, 1986, NASA appointed members of the Rogers Commission to investigate the cause of the disaster. When he was asked to be a part of this commission, Feynman rather reluctantly accepted...
On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and then exploded exactly 73 seconds later -- taking with it the lives of all seven astronauts on board, including the first citizen and teacher to fly into space, Christa McAuliffe. ...
Bush and astronaut and Senator John Glenn met with NASA's space shuttle launch team, who hours earlier had lost Challenger and its seven member crew to a then-still-unknown cause just 73 seconds into flight. Speaking to the controllers from inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space ...
Directed by Daniel Junge and Steven Leckart, "Challenger: The Final Flight" looks back at theJan. 28, 1986, space shuttle tragedythat claimed the lives of five NASA astronauts, a payload specialist from a satellite manufacturer and a social studies teacher who was selected to be the first "...
The Challenger: Directed by James Hawes. With Bruce Greenwood, Eve Best, Joanne Whalley, William Hurt. Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.
My initial dictated newspaper lead went something like this: "The space shuttle Challenger apparently exploded about two minutes after launch today and veered wildly out of control. The fate of the crew was not known." Navias, on the air live with UPI Radio, was watching the NASA television...
The Bottom LineWilliam Hurt plays Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman, who resists attempts to cover up the truth and find out what really went wrong with the space shuttle that blew up on national television, killing the first teacher-in-space, Christa McAuliffe and six other crewmem...
developing chapters on the organisational factors behind Columbia. In a new preface to a re-issue of her book, Vaughan “reveals the ramifications for this book and for her when a similar decision-making process brought down NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003”. Shuttle operations ceased in...