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    On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated...
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    Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the commanding...
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    astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986. The mission, designated...
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    a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L. The report, released and...
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    Christa McAuliffe, in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L) on January 28, 1986. NASA replaced Teachers in Space in 1998 with the Educator...
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  • Challenger: The Final Flight is a 2020 American docuseries developed by Glen Zipper and Steven Leckart for Netflix. It focuses on the Space Shuttle Challenger...
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  • The Challenger (US title: The Challenger Disaster) is a 2013 TV movie starring William Hurt about Richard Feynman's investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle...
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    Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American...
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  • Challenger is a 1990 American disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Its production...
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    Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from...
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    Christa McAuliffe (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster victims)
    teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist...
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    The Challenger flag is an American flag that was placed in the flight kit of Space Shuttle Challenger for mission STS-51-L. The flag was sponsored by...
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  • months after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident of January 28, 1986 (although filming was completed before the disaster occurred). At the time of release...
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    STS-61-M (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    was a proposed NASA Space Shuttle program mission, planned for July 1986 but canceled following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L). Payload...
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    Dick Scobee (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster victims)
    pilot, engineer, and astronaut. He was killed while commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch...
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    STS-107 (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    Shuttle Columbia disaster which killed all seven crew members and destroyed the space shuttle. It was the 88th post-Challenger disaster mission. The flight...
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    STS-51-L (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in...
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  • Roger Boisjoly (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January...
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    Michael J. Smith (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster victims)
    Brian Kerwin in the 1990 TV movie Challenger. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Kerwin, Joseph P. (1986). "Challenger crew cause and time of death". Archived...
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  • the space shuttle Challenger disaster The Challengers (film), a 1990 family film produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Challenger, the...
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    Ellison Onizuka (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster victims)
    successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving...
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    Ronald McNair (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster victims)
    Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven. Prior to the Challenger...
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    Barbara Morgan (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained...
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  • on May 11, 2013. "Space Shuttle Challenger Case". "Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Chapter III: The Accident"...
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    Allan J. McDonald (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    co-authored the 2009 book Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. McDonald was born in Cody, Wyoming, on July 9, 1937, to Eva...
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    failure of an O-ring seal was determined to be the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. A crucial factor was cold weather prior...
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  • Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as...
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    vertically as part of the Space Shuttle stack. Columbia was the first space-worthy orbiter; it made its inaugural flight in 1981. Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis...
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    Space Cowboys. Apollo abort modes Launch escape system NASA Space Shuttle decision Orion abort modes Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Space Shuttle Columbia...
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    Apollo 1 fire, seven died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and seven in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Four of the twelve moonwalkers received...
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