The flight was the shuttle program’s 25th mission ... home to Kennedy Space Center, the Challenger explosion was personal. Bill Kerr, a biologist who did consulting work for endangered species ...
Today marks 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald McNair from Lake City.
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.