Includes pictures Profiles the origins of the mission and what went wrong Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents In the decades after the Apollo program, American space shuttles flew over 130 missions and successfully completed over 98% of them, but unfortunately, the two most famous missions were the ones that ended tragically aboard the Challenger and Columbia.
The Space Shuttle Challenger was the most heavily used space shuttle in the three years it was operational, carrying the first minority astronaut and woman astronaut into space.
Challenger was also the first space shuttle to complete a landing at night.
On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L.
Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission.
On this mission, the Challenger was carrying a satellite for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites system, which was to be deployed in orbit.
The crew included Ronald Mc Nair, who had already been the second African-American in space, and Ellison Onizuka, who had already been the first Asian-American astronaut in space.
But the highlight of the mission was to be the NASA Teacher in Space Project, in which a civilian teacher would give teaching lessons to his or her class while onboard the space shuttle.
The winner of the competition was Christa Mc Auliffe, a high school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire, who wrote a winning essay and had to undergo a year of astronaut training before that fateful day.
It was a beautiful morning, and many spectators came to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch, including Mc Auliffe's parents and her students.
Several news networks were carrying live broadcasts of the launch, including live shots of Mc Auliffe's parents as they watched the Challenger liftoff.
Mission Control's transmissions to the Cha.
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