29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...
28, 1986. (NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from a Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Seventy-three seconds into the launch ...
The crewed shuttle mission for ... all seven crew members aboard Challenger, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five ...
9:38 a.m. was the launch time and the temperature then was 26 degrees. Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on its tenth flight. That level of cold affected the rubber O-rings that ...