ON STS-8, which actually occurred before STS-7, Challenger was the first orbiter to launch and land at night. Later, it was the first to carry two U.S. female astronauts on mission STS 41-G and made the first space shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center, concluding mission STS 41-B.
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Challenger: The Science of a Space Shuttle Disaster. There's a terrible power to the iconic pictures of the space shuttle Challenger exploding — the orange-white fireball in the Florida sky, with the twin contrails of the solid rocket boosters briefly continuing on their journey to nowhere.
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The first shuttle liftoff scheduled from Pad B, STS-51L was beset by delays. Launch was orginially set for 3:43 p.m. EST, Jan. 22, slipped to Jan. 23, then Jan. 24, due to delays in mission 61-C. Launch was reset for Jan. 25 because of bad weather at the transoceanic abort landing (TAL) site in Dakar, Senegal.
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Challenger: The Science of a Space Shuttle Disaster. Jeffrey Kluger. Jan 28, 2016. There's a terrible power to the iconic pictures of the space shuttle Challenger exploding — the orange-white fireball in the Florida sky, with the twin contrails of the solid rocket boosters briefly continuing on their journey to nowhere.
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You don't have to have been alive on December 7, 1941 or September 11, 2001 to see the pictures from Pearl Harbor or downtown New York and feel strangely part of the day. MORE: Challenger Disaster at 30 — How Reagan Mourned a Space Shuttle.
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The next shuttle launch was the seventh flight of the Discovery orbiter, which returned to flight on September 29th, 1988. Among other things, the flight delays caused by the Challenger disaster included a delay in the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, in addition to a fleet of classified satellites.
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On January 28, 1986, 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 NASA astronauts and two Payload Specialists.
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The space shuttle Challenger, which was first called STA-099, was built to serve as a test vehicle for NASA's shuttle program. It was named after the British Naval research vessel HMS Challenger, which sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the 1870s.
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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. The first Space Shuttle Disaster was Challenger which was lost during an explosion as it took off from Cape Canaveral on January 28, 1986, killing all seven people on board. NASA suspended shuttle flights for two years.
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Remembering the Challenger Disaster. On January 28, 1986, the tenth mission of the space shuttle Challenger ended in tragic disaster. We remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives that day, including Christa McAuliffe, who was chosen by NASA to pioneer its Teacher in Space program. Contents Background. Challenger’s Catastrophic Launch.
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