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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Major Malfunction        Video        Retro Report        The New York Times        2 June 2014

 

On Jan. 28, 1986, seven astronauts

"slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."

 

America's space program was never the same.

 

Produced by: Retro Report

Read the story here:

http://nyti.ms/1u8bQWN

 

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O_DMyHdq_M&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iAOqPtxm4RHo205w_R1IWuH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On January 28, 1986,

the Space Shuttle Challenger

and her seven-member crew were lost

when a ruptured O-ring

in the right Solid Rocket Booster

caused an explosion soon after launch.

 

This photograph, taken a few seconds after the accident,

shows the Space Shuttle Main Engines and Solid Rocket Booster

exhaust plumes entwined around a ball of gas from the External Tank.

 

Because shuttle launches

had become almost routine after fifty successful missions,

those watching the shuttle launch in person and on television

found the sight of the explosion especially shocking

and difficult to believe until NASA confirmed the accident.

 

NASA description

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00012.html

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Challenger_explosion.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

 

Primary source

NASA Center: Kennedy Space Center

Image # : 86-HC-220

Date : 01/28/1986

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00012.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eyes on the Stars        StoryCorps        27 January 2013

 

 

 

 

Eyes on the Stars        StoryCorps        27 January 2013

 

On January 28, 1986,

NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy

when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff.

 

On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair,

who was the second African American to enter space.

 

But first, he was a kid with big dreams

in Lake City, South Carolina.

 

Funding Provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

National Endowment for the Arts

In partnership with POV.

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers

Art Direction: Bill Wray

Producers: Lizzie Jacobs & Mike Rauch

Animation: Tim Rauch

Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo

Music: Fredrik

Label: The Kora Records

Publisher: House of Hassle

 


Eyes on the Stars

YouTube > StoryCorps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=41&v=okF5UGpivR8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan. 28, 1986

 

The space shuttle Challenger

(blows) up 73 seconds after liftoff,

disintegrating over the Atlantic

off central Florida

and killing its crew of seven

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/science/space/14stever.html

 

 

http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bUX9fR8tV1s&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAzA6k-spnc

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/
470870426/challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-shuttle-disaster-dies

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/
464744781/30-years-after-disaster-challenger-engineer-still-blames-himself

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/29/
science/space/challenger-explosion-30-year-anniversary.html

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/
challenger_disaster_25_years_l.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/
science/space/14stever.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/
newsid_2506000/2506161.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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