Space Shuttle Challenger Crew

The space shuttle challenger disaster is one of those moments that most everyone watching remembers with extreme clarity.
Space shuttle challenger crew. The crew consisted of five nasa astronauts and two payload specialists. 28 1986 when a booster engine failed causing the shuttle challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. The crew members who died in the challenger disaster. 9 1986 the challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at nasa s kennedy space center.
The country was glued to the tv to watch seven astronauts including former. In this photo from jan. From left to right are teacher in space christa mcauliffe and astronauts gregory jarvis judith resnik mission commander dick scobee astronaut ronald mcnair pilot. Crew members are left to right front row astronauts michael.
Reports of a secret tape recorded aboard the doomed space shuttle challenger that captured the final panic stricken moments of the crew raised suspicions of a cover up. On january 28 1986 america watched on television as the space shuttle challenger carrying six astronauts and one schoolteacher disappeared in a twisting cloud of smoke nine miles above the. Nasa lost seven of its own on the morning of jan. Seven space explorers including teacher christa mcauliffe lost their lives in the 1986 space shuttle tragedy.
The five astronauts and two payload specialists that made up the sts 51 l crew aboard the space shuttle challenger in january of 1986. Remembering space shuttle challenger. The explosion that doomed the.