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Q: What was the purpose of the mission for the space shuttle Challenger?
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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 is the record for the most people on a space shuttle?

Eight, on the shuttle Challenger mission STS 61A in 1985.


What was the mission of the challenger?

Because spacecraft land with marks but space shuttle dont.


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 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 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 shuttle missions did NASA conduct before the Challenger mission?

monkeys butt is the space shuttle name


What was the name of the space shuttle in The Challenger disaster?

The name of the space shuttle was Challenger.


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


Why was space-shuttle Challenger sent into space?

Nasa needed more orbiters. This was the second shuttle built and was the first that was used for testing then converted to space flight. It was send into space for the same purpose as Challenger before it and the ones after it.


What was the second space shuttle?

Space Shuttle Challenger.


What is the name of the second space shuttle?

Space Shuttle Challenger.