Space Shuttle Discovery Explosion

82 seconds after the launch of shuttle sts 107 a sizable piece of foam struck the leading edge of columbia s left wing at a speed between 650 and 950 km h.

Space shuttle discovery explosion. Space shuttle challenger just seconds after its explosive destruction on january 28 1986. Its first mission sts 41 d flew from august 30 to september 5 1984 over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The launch was delayed by one hour and 38 minutes due to unseasonable and unusual light winds and the need to replace fuses in the cooling systems of two crew members flight suits.

The seven astronauts were killed. The space shuttle was engulfed in a cloud of fire just 73 seconds after liftoff at an altitude of some 46 000 feet 14 000 meters. Back row ellison onizuka christa mcauliffe gregory jarvis judith resnik.

The accident which occurred a little more than a minute after liftoff killed the orbiter s seven person crew including the first teacher to be launched into space. The space shuttle challenger disaster was a fatal incident in the united states space program that occurred on january 28 1986 when the space shuttle challenger ov 099 broke apart 73 seconds into its flight killing all seven crew members aboard. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the space shuttle program after the 1986 breakup of challenger soon after liftoff.

Challenger explosion 1986 u s. Ov 103 is one of the orbiters from nasa s space shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. The space shuttle columbia disaster was a fatal incident in the united states space program that occurred on february 1 2003 when the space shuttle columbia ov 102 disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere killing all seven crew members.

1 2003 space shuttle columbia broke up as it returned to earth killing the seven astronauts on board. After the pre decided 2 week stay they started their decent and merely 16 minutes away from the earth the shuttle exploded. The shuttle was launched from kennedy space centre and the crew was to stay in space for two weeks conducting various experiments in a dedicated pod called spacehab.

Smith dick scobee ronald mcnair. Nasa suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the. Front row michael j.