Organise information from the passage and complete the fact file.SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER Time: 1Place: Space Centre in Florida, USA Crew: 2, including a teacher What was special about the Challenger launch?What was the teacher's mission on board the Challenger?What was done in the ...
The launch on January 28, 1986, was different. The sun had been up for less than an hour and air temperatures were a few notches above freezing when the crew of STS-51L boarded the orbiterChallengerthat Tuesday morning. All around the country people were getting excited—in large part beca...
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One of the ways space has been explored is through space shuttles. One shuttle was called the Challenger. Its first mission was in April of 1983, and... Learn more about this topic: Space Shuttles | Overview, Missions & Disasters
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Being one in the Octagon somehow misses the point. Anderson Silva, we were told, was looking to erase the bad taste left by a non-effort against Patrick Cote in October. But what was treated as an anomaly may have been the beginning of a very eccentric title reign. Against challenger Tha...
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, the space shuttle...
The challenger must buy the drinks if everyone produces their coins. Medallions can only be kept in pockets. Medallions cannot have a hole drilled into them. Players may ‘steal’ a medallion from another player. Anyone who successfully ‘steals’ a medallion receives free drinks from the other...
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