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 ...
pressure relief systems on the external tank helps it break up in the lower atmosphere. After the foam burns away during reentry, the heat causes a pressure buildup in the remaining liquid oxygen and hydrogen until the tank explodes. This ensures that any pieces that fall back to Earth are...
Following the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, during its reentry from space, and subsequent crash in 2003, viable organisms, including the nematode,Caenorhabditis elegans(Szewczyk et al.2005) andMicrobispora sp(McLean et al.2006) survived. Likewise, it can be predicted that spaceships cra...
In 2003, disaster struck when NASA'sspace shuttle Columbiabroke apart as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. An investigation board concluded that a large piece of foam insulation fell from the shuttle's external tank during the launch phase and damaged the spacecr...
Space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, changing NASA's space program forever
1st 2003, the Space ShuttleColumbia(USA) disintegrated on re-entry killing all seven astronauts and halting the shuttle program for over two years. 1st 1970, US astronomer Vera Rubin finds evidence of 'dark matter' by studying motion of stars and galaxy rotation not consistent with Newton's la...
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 “...
March 3: SpaceX' SN10 prototype of the Starship vehicle performs a suborbital flight to an altitude of around 10 killometers and the first successful soft landing, however explodes shortly after touchdown. March 30: SpaceX' SN11 prototype of the Starship vehicle explodes at the conclusion of th...
NASA lost the shuttle Columbia and its seven-astronaut crew on Feb. 1, 2003, as the orbiter attempted to return home at the end of its 28th flight – the STS-107 mission. An investigation later revealed that a piece of foam insulation from Columbia's fuel tank broke off during launch an...
January 28, 1986 - Challenger explodes minutes after launch due to faulty O-rings in the shuttle’s rocket booster. All seven crew members die, including Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first teacher in space. Flights do not resume for more than two years. June 27, 1995 - Atl...