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14 wrz 2020 · The explosion that doomed the Challenger space shuttle remains one of the most harrowing and heartbreaking moments in American history. On the morning of January 28, 1986, what was meant to be...
- James A. Lovell, Jr
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy...
- Valentina Tereshkova
Astronauts. Valentina Tereshkova. Valentina Tereshkova. In...
- Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard became one of the original seven Mercury...
- John Glenn
John Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth,...
- Ellen Ochoa
Astronauts. Ellen Ochoa. Ellen Ochoa. Selected by NASA in...
- Michael Collins
In 1963 he was chosen by NASA to be part of the third group...
- James A. Lovell, Jr
21 mar 2024 · All seven of their remains were mixed and placed together at a memorial in Section 46, Grave 1129, while two of the crew members — Francis R. "Dick" Scobee and Michael J. Smith — also have graves of their own in the cemetery.
15 wrz 2020 · The cabin where the crew members were, hit the water after a full 2 minutes and 45 seconds following the break apart, and all investigations indicate that all 7 of them were alive up until that point.
2 maj 2015 · Conspiracy theory claims the seven astronauts supposedly killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion are quietly living out their lives in the U.S.
28 sty 2016 · These seven astronauts—including the specialties of pilot, aerospace engineers, and scientists—died in the destruction of their spacecraft 73 seconds after launch from the Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986.
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC).
The names of the seven astronauts lost in the Challenger accident, engraved on the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Visitor Complex. Credits: NASA. To honor the astronauts lost in the Challenger accident, as well as those lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Columbia accident, every year at the end of January, NASA holds a Day of Remembrance ...
