The last Challenger mission, dubbed STS-51L, was commanded by Francis R. “Dick” Scobee and piloted by Michael J. Smith. The other crew members on board were mission specialists Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka, and Judith A. Resnik; payload specialist Gregory B. Jarvis; and teacher...
So, ifChallengerhad encountered no other complications on its way to space, mission STS-51-L would have gone down in history as merelySTS-51- yet another successful shuttle flight for NASA. The only indication anything had gone wrong would have only been ...
but space travel remains as dangerous as ever and tragedy again strikes NASA when the Challenger explodes.HOME IN SPACEOne of the most complex instruments ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the Universe. But once it is in orbit, NASA...
Two crews of seven astronauts each died: Challenger's STS-51-L during launch on Jan. 28, 1986, and Columbia's STS-107 crew during landing on Feb. 1, 2003. The shuttle also was key in developing the ISS, including visits to the Soviet-Russian Mir space station as an early ISS ...
On STS-41G in 1984, two women — Ride andKathryn Sullivan— flew on one mission for the first time — as well as the first Canadian, Marc Garneau. Challenger reached other milestones, too, including the first night launch and landing (STS-8) and the first operational Spacelab flight (STS...
11 STS-41-C Challenger 1984-4-6 8:58:00 EST 长期暴露实验舱,首次在轨修理 12 STS-41-D Discovery 1984-8-30 8:41:50 EDT 3颗商业卫星/新型太阳能帆/发现号首航 13 STS-41-G Challenger 1984-10-5 7:03:00 EDT 地球辐射卫星,空间和陆地科学实验舱-3 14 STS-51-A Discovery 1984-11-8 7:...
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NASA made a major stride in readying a second delivery vehicle for its Space Transportation System (STS) fleet with the perfect landing of Shuttle Orbiter Challenger at Edwards Air Force Base, California, April 9, 1983. Besides being the first flight test of Challenger's performance, the ...
In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. Age: 82 Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 496 votes ...
1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a Mission Specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007...