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How many shuttle missions did NASA conduct before the Challenger mission?
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What was the reason for the Challenger space mission?
The Challenger was a space shuttle orbiter that took astronauts into space for studies. The Challenger completed a total of nine missions into space.
What was the challengers mission?
Challenger had many missions, including the first spacewalk of the shuttle program and various satellite deployments.
How many missions did the challenger space shuttle go on?
After 9 Successful missions, it blew up due to a faulty O-ring in the booster, only after 73 seconds into its mission.
What year did Challenger resume after tragedy?
Never. The Challenger space shuttle was destroyed in the 1986 disaster and was not rebuilt. The first shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster was on September 29, 1988, more than two years after the incident. That mission was flown by the shuttle Discovery.
How many space flights have there been since the space shuttle challenger?
According to NASA there have been a total of 119 shuttle missions of which 110 occurred after the Challenger disaster.
What is the record for the most people on a space shuttle?
Eight, on the shuttle Challenger mission STS 61A in 1985.
What was the name of the mission that the Challenger exploded?
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger(mission STS-51-L) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.
What was the mission of the challenger?
Because spacecraft land with marks but space shuttle dont.
How many times can a space shuttle conduct a mission?
The space shuttles were designed to fly A maximum of 100 missions each, but every orbiter will have been destroyed or retired before reaching even 70 missions.
The u.s space shuttle challenger exploded in?
The space shuttle Challenger lifted off on January 28, 1986 at 11:38:00 a.m. EST. Seventy three seconds into the mission
What space shuttle did Sally Ride go to space in?
She was twice on the space shuttle Challenger, in June 1983 on mission STS-7 and in October 1984 on mission STS-41-G.
What is the best and most important and most interesting space shuttle from NASA?
5 operational Space Shuttles were built, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. Challenger was destroyed in an explosion during launch and Discovery was destroyed when it disintegrated during re-entry. Neither accident was caused by the orbiter itself. They all flew mission of national or scientific interest. Columbia flew 28 missions. Challenger flew 10 missions. Discovery flew 39 missions. Atlantis flew 33 missions. Endeavour flew 25 missions.
