The Challenger Accident

Date Submitted: 09/30/2004 11:50:27
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 1 pages (404 words)
The space shuttle Challenger lifted off at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:38 A.M. on January 28, 1986, on shuttle mission 51-L. At just under 74 seconds into the flight, an explosion occurred, causing the loss of the shuttle and its entire crew, consisting of: Francis R. Scobee, Michael John Smith, Ellison S.Onizuka, Judith Arlene Resnik, Ronald Erwin McNair, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Bruce Jarvis. Christa McAuliffe the 37-year-old schoolteacher from New Hampshire was, the …
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