NASA originally intended Challenger to be a test vehicle,according to the Kennedy Space Center. Rockwell International, an aerospace manufacturing company, began building the shuttle in November 1975 and then sent it toLockheed Martin, another aerospace technology company, for structural testing starting ...
“I regret that I have to report that based on very preliminary searches of the ocean where Challenger impacted this morning, these searches have not revealed any evidence that the crew of the Challenger survived,” said Moore, hours after the explosion. The shuttle, loaded at launch with near...
January 28th 1986 - the space shuttle Challenger explodes just one minute after launch. As the world looked on horrified, few realised that this was an inevitable accident that had been predicted by the designers for years. Indeed, the day before the key engineers believed that there was “...
1986: The Shuttle program comes to an abrupt end on January 28, 1986 when Challenger, one of the Shuttle fleet, explodes one minute after launch of mission STS-51-L, killing all seven people onboard. 1986: The Soviets launch Mir, a continuously crewed space station. It remains in orbit ...
Challenger (OV-099). Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after launch in 1986, and Endeavour was built as a replacement for Challenger from structural spare components. Columbia broke apart during re-entry in 2003. Building Space Shuttle Endeavour cost about US$1.7 billion. One Space Shuttle launch...
The 20th century saw a huge leap in astronomical discoveries and the advent of space exploration, both driven by advances in technology. From the moon landings to learning how stars shine to realizing the universe is big—really big—the past 100 years h
28th 1986, space shuttle Challenger (USA), the 10th shuttle flight, explodes 73 seconds after lift-off killing all seven crew and halting the program for 32 months. 31st 1961, first hominid in space, chimpanzee Ham, in Mercury-Redstone 2 (USA), who survived and lived in zoos until 1983...
Space Shuttle Challenger ExplodesReagan SigningSeventy 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 ...
seconds after launching from Launch Complex 39B, killing the seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. The mission, officially designated STS-51-L, was the 10th flight of the space shuttle Challenger and became the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight....
1986 Mir Halley comet by Giotto Jan. 12: The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on the STS-61C mission with a crew of seven. Jan. 24: Voyager-2 becomes the first and only spacecraft in the 20th century to fly by and study Uranus. Jan. 28: The Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds ...