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Aug 2, 2022 · NASA Christa McAuliffe spent months training for the Challenger mission. But when the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off on Jan. 28, 1986, disaster struck. The spacecraft exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing McAuliffe and the other six crew members.
Sep 9, 2024 · The Challenger disaster was the explosion of the U.S. space shuttle shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986. All seven astronauts on board died.
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- The most prominent victim of the Challenger disaster was Christa McAuliffe, a teacher whose role was to conduct at least two lessons from orbit. Ot...
- The immediate cause of the Challenger disaster was the failure of two rubber O-rings to seal a joint between the two lower segments of the right-ha...
Apr 2, 2014 · High school teacher Christa McAuliffe was the first American civilian selected to go into space. She died in the explosion of the space shuttle 'Challenger' in 1986.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Jan 28, 2016 · NASA astronauts had died on the job before — Apollo 1 crewmembers Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were lost when a fire broke out inside their command module during a launchpad exercise...
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Feb 15, 2010 · The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission. The disaster claimed the lives of all...
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Apr 9, 2024 · Some 11,000 educators applied for the opportunity to fly on board a space shuttle flight, including 36-year-old Christa McAuliffe, a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New...
