Space Shuttle Challenger: A televised catastrophe.steemCreated with Sketch.

in life •  7 years ago 

 28 January 1986 seven astronauts lost their lives on the NASA🚀 's challenger shuttle. 

The accident occurred to 73 seconds of takeoff, more than 15 kilometers above the ocean Atlántico👎. 

This is the most remembered failure in the history of ⚠ space exploration. 

The aeronautical catastrophe occurred at the sight of all, during a live transmission by CNN📺.   After an impressive explosion, the compartment where the astronauts travelled fired in a fireball and continued to go up a few more kilometres before falling ❌. The fall lasted approximately two minutos👎. On board the Challenger was also Professor Christa McAuliffe, who, unfortunately, had won the contest "a professor in space", being in the first civilian who flew on a  space mission. 

 Due to the panic caused by the Challenger's catastrophe, the next launch of a ferry (STS-26R Discovery) would not be done until [29 September 1988 🚀]. 


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