Unlike other important points in history that have an image associated with them, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger doesn't have a single photo taken by a single photographer associate with it. There were many photos of the same event.
This is because there were thousands of people viewing the launch that day, and many members of the press. Additionally, NASA has dozens (now hundreds) of movie and still cameras recording launches from many angles.
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Space shuttle Challenger's explosion
The remaining pieces after the explosion are at the Kennedy space center.
The name of the space shuttle was Challenger.
1986, the same year as the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion.
the explosion of the Columbia and the challenger
The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986 was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal in one of the solid rocket boosters. The O-ring failed to properly seal, allowing hot gases to escape and ultimately lead to the explosion of the shuttle.
The Space Shuttle Discovery never experienced an explosion. It was a NASA shuttle that had successful missions between 1984 and 2011. The Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Columbia disaster in 2003 were two separate incidents involving other space shuttle missions that resulted in tragic losses.
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Christa McAuliffe was the school teacher astronaut who was killed in the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986. She was selected from thousands of applicants to be the first civilian in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
The space shuttle that exploded in 1986 was the Challenger.
The cost of the Space Shuttle Challenger was approximately $4.5 billion.