The Challenger crew as killed when the rocket carrying their Shuttle spacecraft into space blew up.
More specifically, a seal on one of the solid rockets failed directing a flame onto the external tank which contains a large amount of hydrogen and an oxidizer (very explosive) causing it to explode.
Seven. The max crew is eight.
No, there is no Challenger Crew in One Piece.
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Several things: # One of the crew members, Christa McAuliffe, was a civilian school teacher. # All seven members of the crew were killed when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
Seven died (CHALLENGER mission explosion January 1986.) The last two members of the Challenger crew were not officially Federal government employees.
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The crew compartment was separated from the rest of the shuttle soon after the fuel tank ruptured. It crashed into the ocean with a force of 200g's, and this is thought to have killed the crew, although they were probably unconscious at the time. The cabin was found relatively intact, although damaged, along with the bodies of the crew.
"Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L." This is from Wikipedia, and I think this is what you need :)
There was a faulty O ring which lead to that explosion that killed all the astronauts on board.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff in 1986, tragically killing all seven crew members on board.
Um, Dead?