Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Christa McAuliffe was America’s first schoolteacher to travel into space. On Jan. 28, 1986, as the space shuttle Challenger lifted off for orbit 73 seconds later, its crew cheered loudly when it suddenly disintegrated and exploded in fiery destruction. This tragedy fundamentally altered NASA’s space operations; it ended plans to send civilians as passengers into […]
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