Thirty-four years ago, NASA experienced an in-flight tragedy when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after launch, killing all seven crew members aboard
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the cold weather conditions that morning combined with a design flaw led to a rocket booster failure and caused a structural collapse.The Space Shuttle Challenger was the world's first partially reusable launch vehicle.
had a special satellite broadcast set up for schools across the nation to watch what was supposed to be a historic moment. set up a live satellite feed of the Space Shuttle Challenger launch.Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher from New Hampshire, was supposed to be the first civilian and American teacher in space. She was selected as part of the Teachers in Space program.Space Shuttle Challenger crew members: Mission specialist Ellison S. Onizuka, Teacher-in-Space participant Sharon Christa McAuliffe, payload specialist Greg Jarvis and mission specialist Judy Resnick.
's space shuttle program for nearly three years.Military guards transfer caskets bearing remains of Challenger's crew, which exploded after liftoff.Every year, holds a"Day of Remembrance" to honor fallen astronauts. It began after the space shuttle Columbia disaster, which claimed the lives of its seven-member crew during its return to Earth on February 1, 2003.There is a Space Shuttle Challenger memorial at Arlington National Cemetary in Virginia.
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