Challenger disaster wreckage. Fragment from the space shuttle Challenger being lowered into an abandoned missile silo at Cape Canaveral air force stat


Challenger disaster wreckage. Fragment from the space shuttle Challenger being lowered into an abandoned missile silo at Cape Canaveral air force station. Challenger exploded 73 seconds after lift-off from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA on 28 January 1986. The explosion occurred as a result of a failure of one of the O-rings in a seal on one of the booster rockets. A subsequent leakage of fuel triggered the explosion that killed all seven crew members.


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