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14 wrz 2020 · Seven space explorers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, lost their lives in the 1986 space shuttle tragedy.
- James A. Lovell, Jr
On Apollo 13, Lovell and his crew turned an imminent...
- Valentina Tereshkova
The first woman to travel in space, she called out, “Hey...
- 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
Selected by NASA in 1990, Ellen Ochoa became the world's...
- Michael Collins
Michael Collins was an astronaut who was part of the Gemini...
- Christa McAullife
High school teacher Christa McAuliffe was the first American...
- Ronald McNair
African American physicist and astronaut Ronald McNair was...
- James A. Lovell, Jr
This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. Abbreviations: PC = Payload Commander
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).
28 sty 2021 · The next flight, designated STS-51L, marked the 25th in the program and the 10th for space shuttle Challenger. During the six-day mission, the seven-member crew was to deploy a large communications satellite, deploy and retrieve an astronomy payload to study Halley’s Comet, and the first teacher in space would conduct lessons for ...
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the commanding ship of a nineteenth-century scientific expedition that traveled the world, Challenger was the second Space Shuttle orbiter to fly into space after Columbia , and launched on its maiden flight in ...
3 lut 2003 · The Challenger shuttle crew, of seven astronauts—including the pilot, aerospace engineers, and scientists—died tragically in the explosion of their spacecraft during the launch of STS-51L from the Kennedy Space Center about 11:40 a.m., EST, on January 28, 1986.
The Challenger shuttle crew, of seven astronauts--including the specialties of pilot, aerospace engineers, and scientists-- died tragically in the explosion of their spacecraft during the launch of STS-51-L from the Kennedy Space Center about 11:40 a.m., EST, on January 28, 1986.
