Challenger, U.S. space shuttle. It exploded (Jan. 28, 1986) 73 seconds into its tenth flight, killing all seven crew members, including the first civilian in space, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. The disaster was caused by the faulty design of a gasket (the O-ring seal). As dramatically demonstrated by Richard http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-feynman, a member of the presidential commission appointed to investigate the accident, the elastic O-ring did not respond as expected because of the cold temperature (30°F/-1°C) at launch time. (At a news conference, Feynman illustrated the loss of elasticity by dropping an O-ring into a glass of cold water.) As a result of the explosion, the United States did not send astronauts into space for almost three years as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration redesigned a number of features of the space shuttle.
1986
The space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, which was a Tuesday.
Challenger exploded in 1986. It was January 28 at 11:39 in the morning.
The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
No. The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff in 1986. The Discovery is fully intact. It has been retired from service and is on display at the Steven F. Hudvar-Davy center in Virginia.
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1986
The space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, which was a Tuesday.
Challenger exploded in 1986. It was January 28 at 11:39 in the morning.
The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
No. The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff in 1986. The Discovery is fully intact. It has been retired from service and is on display at the Steven F. Hudvar-Davy center in Virginia.
The challenger disater was on January 28, 1986
The Challenger exploded on January 28th of 1986 at 11:38 A.M.
8:56 am on Tuesday Jan. 28 1986
The first teacher in space
Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986.
Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on April 4, 1983.