Space Shuttle Disasters
The space shuttle challenger disaster that occurred on january 28 1986 marked one of the most devastating days in the history of space exploration.
Space shuttle disasters. The disaster that occurred with space shuttle challenger remains one of the worst space disasters in nasa s history and it led to the deaths of all the crew members present on board. The columbia disaster was the second tragedy in the history of the space shuttle program after the space shuttle challenger broke apart shortly after launch in 1986 and all seven astronauts on. However as of 2020 only one mission i e.
Soyuz 11 had recorded human fatalities in space. The list of all the space shuttle disasters mentioned above includes the most horrifying and well known disasters. Some of the mentioned disasters have caused enormous fatalities and destruction.
Just over a minute after the space shuttle lifted off a malfunction in the spacecraft s o rings rubber seals that separated its rocket boosters caused a fire to start that destabilized the boosters and spread up the rocket itself.