Challenger and Columbia Disasters

The Challenger STS 7 mission held multiple experiments as well as two satellites. While not a particular purpose it is notable that this flight also included the first American woman astronaut, Sally Ride.

Kalpana Chawla's spacecraft was named Space Shuttle Columbia. She was one of the astronauts on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003 when the spacecraft tragically disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

The destruction was due to a hole punctured in the leading edge on one of Columbia's wings. The hole had formed when a piece of insulating foam from the external fuel tank peeled off during the launch 16 days earlier and struck the shuttle's left wing. During the intense heat of re-entry, hot gases penetrated the interior of the wing, destroying the support structure and causing the rest of the shuttle to break apart.

The Columbia space shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003, due to damage sustained to its thermal protection system during launch. A piece of foam insulation broke off from the external fuel tank and struck the shuttle's left wing, compromising its heat shield. This allowed hot gases to enter the wing during re-entry, leading to structural failure and the breakup of the spacecraft.

The Challenger 1 tank was a British battle tank designed in the 1980s. Its most notable crash occurred during a demonstration at an arms fair in Abu Dhabi in 1991, when an undercarriage strut failed, causing the tank to lose control and crash into an obstacle. The accident highlighted design flaws in the tank's suspension system.

The entire crew of STS-51-L (Challenger) were killed.

* Michael J. Smith * Dick Scobee * Ronald McNair * Ellison Onizuka * Christa McAuliffe (a civilian school teacher)

* Gregory Jarvis * Judith Resnik.

Two space shuttles, the Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003, disintegrated during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. These tragic accidents resulted in the loss of all crew members on board both missions.

Two out of five Space Shuttles: Challager and Columbia, were the only 2 shuttles to be lost, challager exploded 72 seconds after takeoff while Columbia burned up in the atmosphere.

Two of the space shuttles that exploded were the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Both tragedies resulted in the loss of crew members and led to investigations and reforms in the space shuttle program.

The two space shuttles that tragically exploded were the Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003. Both disasters resulted in the loss of the entire crew on board.

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 Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, 73 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the tragic loss of all seven crew members onboard. The cause of the explosion was determined to be a failed O-ring seal in one of the solid rocket boosters.

There were a total of 17 Apollo missions, including both crewed missions and uncrewed test flights. Eleven of these missions landed astronauts on the Moon, while the rest were Earth orbit missions or test flights.

The seven astronauts who lost their lives on the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, were Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.

The Space Shuttle Columbia did not actually blow up. Rather, it was torn apart and disintigrated. The Columbia disaster was caused as a result of foam on the space shuttle's external fuel tank (ET). The ET is covered in insulating foam to prevent ice from forming from the cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants. During launch, aerodynamic forces pulled a large piece of the foam off of the ET, and it impacted some of the space shuttle's Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) panels on the left wing, causing a hole. The RCC panels are used to protect the space shuttle from the violent heat of re-entry. However the hole allowed hot gases to melt the inside of the shuttle's wing, which destroyed it structurally. As Columbia's structure melted and fell apart, aerodynamic forces broke up the vehicle into hundreds of thousands of pieces, killing the crew.

The first manned rocket was launched in 1961

The Columbia shuttle was launched using the Space Shuttle system, which involved strapping the shuttle onto a rocket boosters and an external fuel tank. The boosters provided most of the thrust during liftoff, with the shuttle's main engines igniting once in space.

As the vehicle cleared the tower, the SSMEs were operating at 104% of their rated maximum thrust, and control switched from the Launch Control Center (LCC) at Kennedy to the Mission Control Center (MCC) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The shuttle was scattered over the Atlantic within seconds of taking off from Kennedy.

NASA's Apollo Program lasted from 1963-1972. In which time it held 15 missions of different objectives. Including Apollo 11 consisting of Neil Armstong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins

The astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire on January 27, 1967, were Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee.

The Challenger exploded because the primary and secondary O-rings were stiff from cold weather. They were not put in correctly and not checked. Hot gases leaked thorugh the O-rings and mixed with the fire from take off. The external tank then caught on fire and soon the Challenger exploded, killing the seven passengers including Christa McAuliffe.

Columbia didn't explode at lift off. I think you're mistaking it for Challenger, which exploded early in it's flight. Columbia broke apart as it was re-entering the atmosphere. there was a piece of foam that broke off early in the flight (within the first 90 seconds I believe they said) and it doomed the shuttle. the Year it xpolded was 2003 it exploded at lift off 7 people died the Year it xpolded was 2003 it exploded at lift off 7 people died

The cost for a shuttle mission can vary significantly depending on the specific requirements and complexities of the mission. On average, the cost of a space shuttle mission was estimated to be around $450 million. However, with the retirement of the space shuttle program, new commercial solutions for space transportation have emerged, offering a wider range of pricing options.

The first space shuttle disaster was the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. The shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after launch, resulting in the tragic loss of all seven crew members on board.

The intended purpose of the Columbia STS-107 space shuttle mission was to conduct a variety of scientific experiments in fields such as astronaut health, fluid physics, and material sciences in microgravity. The mission aimed to advance our understanding of these areas and their applications on Earth.