Space Shuttle Challenger Remains

Miami the crew compartment of the space shuttle challenger with the remains of astronauts aboard has been found 100 feet beneath the sea off the coast of florida nasa officials announced.

Space shuttle challenger remains. The immense explosion was seared in the minds of a. Forty eight pictures of the wreckage which was recovered from the bottom of the atlantic ocean off cape canaveral fla appear to show nothing startling about the fate of the challenger and its. As a result of the disaster several national reconnaissance office nro satellites that only the shuttle could launch were grounded because of the accident. All was lost that january day as the shattered remains of the space shuttle challenger plummeted into the atlantic ocean 17 everything changed.

This was a dilemma the nro had feared since the 1970s when the shuttle was designated as the united states primary launch system for all government and commercial payloads. The remains of challenger astronauts are recovered from the atlantic ocean. In march 1986 the remains of the astronauts were found in the debris of the crew cabin. Remains of all seven challenger astronauts have been identified a family member said saturday and nasa called off the search for crew cabin wreckage closing a.

A secret nasa tape reveals that the crew of the shuttle challenger not only survived the explosion that ripped the vessel apart. Ap the grim work of identifying the remains of some of challenger s crew continued today while calmer seas allowed a large salvage ship to resume the search for additional body parts and debris from the space shuttle. Unidentified crew remains were buried communally at the space shuttle challenger memorial in arlington on may 20 1986.