That would be January 28, 1986.
Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on April 4, 1983.
The second launch of the space shuttle Challenger occurred on July 29, 1985.
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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.
Sally Ride was not on the crew of the shuttle that exploded. Two women, Christa McCauliffe and Ms Resnik (sp) were. Check keywords Challenger explosion for more information.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28,1986. It disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean killing all seven Crew members.
Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on April 4, 1983.
Challenger exploded in 1986. Columbia in 2003.
January 28, 1986
The second launch of the space shuttle Challenger occurred on July 29, 1985.
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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.
Sally Ride was not on the crew of the shuttle that exploded. Two women, Christa McCauliffe and Ms Resnik (sp) were. Check keywords Challenger explosion for more information.
The Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, at 11:38 AM EST. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, leading to the tragic loss of all seven crew members on board.
The space shuttle Challenger came apart on that date and subsequently crashed into the ocean. All seven astronauts were killed.
Challengers last flight occurred on January 28, 1986 at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC).
To date, there have been no documented cases of people being killed in space. However, there have been fatal accidents during space missions, such as the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, resulting in the loss of lives.