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| On this day - 1986 (Space Shuttle 'Challenger'); January 28th | |
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| daib0 | 28 Jan 2016, 08:39 AM Post #1 |
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Tuesday, January 28, 1986. : The Space Shuttle 'Challenger' explodes, killing seven Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its first voyage was on 4 April 1983, and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before its final ill-fated flight in January 1986. On board were mission commander Francis R Scobee, pilot Michael J Smith, mission specialists Ronald E McNair, Ellison S Onizuka, and Judith A Resnik, payload specialist Gregory B Jarvis and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. 37-year-old McAuliffe was to be the first civilian to fly into space as part of a new program called TISP, the Teacher In Space Program. After lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:38am on 28 January 1986, the Challenger exploded, just 73 seconds into its launch. All crew members were killed instantly. Investigations later revealed that the spacecraft broke up during the launch due to an unusually cold morning and the failure of rubber seals in the booster engines called "O rings" that failed to seal properly. Space shuttle missions resumed in September, 1988. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2085186.1421775098!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/challenger-anniversary.jpg |
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| Owlish52 | 28 Jan 2016, 01:35 PM Post #2 |
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If anyone wants to know more about this disaster, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster. Several points in this summary are in question, especially the time of death of the crew. There is substantial evidence that some of (if not all) the crew did survive the explosion of the external fuel tank (the Shuttle itself did not explode but disintegrated due to the external fuel tank explosion) and that the crew compartment of the Shuttle was most likely intact up to it's impact with the ocean at an estimated 208 miles per hour, generating unsurvivable deceleration loads in excess of 200 gravities some 2 minutes 45 seconds after the breakup of the Shuttle. Four flight desk emergency air packs were recovered; each had been activated and showed consumption consistent with that amount of usage. Given the very high profile of the Challenger disaster and the amount of information collected by telemetry and video, the last flight of the Challenger is likely the most documented and investigated incident in history, and there are still many things that are and will remain unknown. |
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| Tilehurstsouthbank | 28 Jan 2016, 05:42 PM Post #3 |
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Can't believe this was 30 years ago. I remember John Craven's Newsround covering it. I was only 10 at the time. |
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