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Eight, on the shuttle Challenger mission STS 61A in 1985.
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The spacee shuttle "challenger".
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, both of which killed seven people, respectivley.
it will continue as usual.nasa is not all about sending people to space, it has many important missions aside from the shuttle programe
14 people have lost their lives in space shuttle accidents - seven each on Challenger and Columbia. (Two searchers were also killed in a helicopter accident during recovery of the Columbia.)
There are/were 5 space shuttles and over 100 missions as well as one other shuttle that only flew in the atmosphere as a test of the flight capability. Many people have ridden on the space shuttle.
The rocket carrying the space shuttle Challenger.
All seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger died in the 1986 disaster.
What made Sally Ride well known is that she was an American civilian school teacher who was aboard the space shuttle called Challenger, which exploded 76 seconds into its flight, killing all aboard. As a civilian, her participation in the Challenger flight had been heavily publicized and more than the usual number of people were watching the lift off at the time. All seven people aboard perished in the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986.
there was actually 7 people aboard the challenger on the day of January 28,1986. Many people believe that all 7 people aboard the challenger were vaporized instantly. However, this is not the case. the people aboard the challenger were actually shot up to 65,000 altitude in the space shuttle when it arched back and plumeted towards the ocean. while falling 3 of the 7 emergency oxygen's were activated meaning at least 3 were conscience during their decent to death.
Women who flew on the Space Shuttle by country: 44 American 2 Canadian 2 Japanese 1 Russian 49 total This includes Christa McAuliffe, who died on the Challenger on January 28, 1986. FYI: The Russian (Soviet) space program has also launched 7 women in space who did not fly on the shuttle (as of 6-15-2010), and there have been 4 women who have flown on both the shuttle and the Russian program, for a total of 56 women in space. The first was Valentina Tereshkova launched on the Soviet program on June 16, 1963.