Space Shuttle Challenger Remains

The remains of challenger astronauts are recovered from the atlantic ocean.

Space shuttle challenger remains. All was lost that january day as the shattered remains of the space shuttle challenger plummeted into the atlantic ocean 17 everything changed. Though all of the important pieces of the shuttle were retrieved by the time nasa closed its challenger. In march 1986 the remains of the astronauts were found in the debris of the crew cabin.

The immense explosion was seared in the minds of a. Unidentified crew remains were buried communally at the space shuttle challenger memorial in arlington on may 20 1986. They screamed cried cursed and prayed for three hellish minutes.

Forty eight pictures of the wreckage which was recovered from the bottom of the atlantic ocean off cape canaveral fla appear to show nothing startling about the fate of the challenger and its. Ap the grim work of identifying the remains of some of challenger s crew continued today while calmer seas allowed a large salvage ship to resume the search for additional body parts and debris from the space shuttle. Pathologists continue effort to identify challenger crew remains howard benedict march 11 1986 cape canaveral fla.

Miami the crew compartment of the space shuttle challenger with the remains of astronauts aboard has been found 100 feet beneath the sea off the coast of florida nasa officials announced. This was a dilemma the nro had feared since the 1970s when the shuttle was designated as the united states primary launch system for all government and commercial payloads.