39 years later: Remembering the Challenger tragedy
At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them,” he said in his four-minute speech.
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first ...
The orbiter Challenger became the workhorse of the space fleet, completing 87 earth orbits and logging more than 69 cumulative days in space. Taken on May 6, 1985, the interesting ...
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