Challenger Accident
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions, Aviation, Space Exploration, Disasters
- Subcategories: Engineering, Engineers, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology, Astronauts, Cosmonauts
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Florida
- Date: January 28, 1986
Article abstract: After nearly twenty-five years of safe spaceflight, a stunned nation witnesses the explosion of the space shuttle and the deaths of its crew.
Summary of Event
On the morning of January 28, 1986, an explosion pierced the unusually crisp winter air above Cape Canaveral and disrupted the United States’ most promising technological enterprise. The destruction of the space shuttle Challenger and the loss of its seven crew members were swift and catastrophic. Subsequent investigation concluded that U.S. efforts to sustain an...
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