Despite concerns raised from some employees, managers had cleared the craft for liftoff. Later investigations showed a cold front, which had come overnight before the launch, brought frigid temperatures that “affected the integrity of O-ring seals in the solid rocket booster segment joints,” per NASA. Classrooms across the nation tuned in to watch the momentous take-off live, but 73 seconds after launch, the shuttle exploded, and all seven crew members were killed.Īll seven members of Challenger's crew died in the 1986 explosion. This mission was supposed to send the first American civilian into space: Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher from Concord, New Hampshire. 28, 1986, as part of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. The crew contacted NASA, which confirmed the find in a statement last week.Ĭhallenger’s last launch occurred on Jan.
“If you go and visit any of the space shuttles, you'll notice that the tiles that protect the vehicle for reentry-those black tiles on the bottom-have a very obvious pattern, just like tiles on a floor.” “Looking at the images that have been released, it's obviously a piece of the orbiter,” Jennifer Levasseur, a curator at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, tells NPR’s Elissa Nadworny. The team, which had been filming for the History Channel, soon realized their discovery is one of the largest recovered pieces of NASA’s Challenger Space Shuttle.
Instead, the divers came across a large, flat metal object with square tiles indicative of a spacecraft, partially covered by sand on the seafloor.
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In search of a sunken World War II-era aircraft, a TV documentary crew plunged into the waters off the coast of Florida.
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