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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerYou Mean the City? Remembering Challenger’s Last Successful Launch, OTD in 1985
OTD in 1985, shuttle #Challenger launched successfully for the last time & completed a week-long research flight for what was then West Germany. More
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in NASA, Shuttle, ChallengerRemembering the Shuttle Night Landings (Part 2)
37 years after STS-8, AmericaSpace looks back at some of the highs & lows of landing the Space Shuttle at night. More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerRemembering the First Shuttle Night Landing, OTD in 1983 (Part 1)
OTD in 1983, #Challenger landed at night after STS-8. It was the first of 26 shuttle night landings. More
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in Shuttle, Space, Challenger‘I Didn’t Touch a Thing’: Remembering Challenger’s Pad Abort, OTD in 1985
OTD in 1985, the crew of Challenger suffered a close-call on the launch pad: a shutdown of the shuttle’s main engines, seconds before liftoff. More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerRemembering Challenger’s Lost Innocence, OTD in 1986
For those of us of a certain age, there can be few more horrific images imprinted upon our long-term memories than the sight of shuttle Challenger exploding in the sky above Cape Canaveral on 28 January 1986. For me, a nine-year-old boy growing up in England, the event was played out live on television and […] More
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in NASA, Space, Challenger, space shuttle‘Major Malfunction’: Remembering the Sacrifice of the Challenger Seven
On this day in 1986, the sight of shuttle Challenger exploding in the skies above Cape Canaveral painted an indelible mark on the public psyche and still carries the power to haunt. Over the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years to come, the loss of the shuttle and her seven-member crew—Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot […] More
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in NASA, Shuttle, Space, ChallengerRide, Sally Ride: 35 Years Since America’s First Woman in Space
Thirty-five years ago, this week, America launched its first woman into space. Physicist Dr. Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard shuttle Challenger—accompanied by fellow STS-7 astronauts Bob Crippen, Rick Hauck, John Fabian and Norm Thagard—and became the third female spacefarer, following in the footsteps of Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. STS-7 marked the […] More
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in NASA, KSC, Challenger, LaunchMissed Warnings: The Fatal Flaws Which Doomed Challenger 32 Years Ago (Part 2)
At 11:39 a.m. EST on 28 January 1986, the unthinkable happened, when shuttle Challenger was lost, a mere 73 seconds after liftoff. All seven astronauts of Mission 51L, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed in the tragedy. Yet, as outlined in yesterday’s “PART 1” commemorative AmericaSpace feature, the human tragedy was accompanied by another: for it […] More
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in NASA, KSC, Challenger, LaunchMissed Warnings: The Fatal Flaws Which Doomed Challenger 32 Years Ago (Part 1)
On 7 March 1986, six weeks after the loss of Challenger, divers from the U.S.S. Preserver found the remains of the ill-fated shuttle’s crew cabin. It “was disintegrated, with the heaviest fragmentation and crash damage on the left side,” read the Rogers Commission’s final report into the cause of the disaster. “The fractures examined were […] More
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Christa McAuliffe’s Lessons Remembered, As Space Station ‘Year of Education’ Enters Second Half
Just a few days shy of the 32nd anniversary of the loss of Challenger, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Ricky Arnold announced they would memorialize fallen schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe by carrying out several of the lesson plans that she planned to perform on-orbit. Acaba, who launched to the International Space Station (ISS) last September, and Arnold, […] More
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in Shuttle, Space, Challenger
‘Go at Throttle Up’: Remembering the Sacrifice of the Challenger Seven (Part 2)
Thirty-one winters have now passed since the frightful morning of Tuesday, 28 January 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger roared into the crystal-blue Florida sky, kicking off what should have been her 10th voyage into orbit. During almost three years of operational service for NASA, she had safely carried 46 men and women into space—one of […] More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerLost Innocence: Remembering the Sacrifice of the Challenger Seven (Part 1)
Thirty-one years ago, today, on 28 January 1986, one of the worst and most public disasters in U.S. space history unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above Cape Canaveral. The sight of Challenger exploding, just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members, is so harrowing that for all of us who witnessed […] More
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