STS-51-L was the 25th flight of the American Space Shuttle program, and the tenth mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted-off from Launch Complex 39-B, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on January 28, 1986. The mission ended in catastrophic failure with the destruction of Challenger, starting at 73 seconds after lift-off, and the death of all seven crew members. The Rogers Commission determined that the cause of the destruction was due to the failure of an O-ring seal on the starboard Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). This flight marked the first time a non-government civilian, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown aboard the Space Shuttle.
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| - STS-51-L was the 25th flight of the American Space Shuttle program, and the tenth mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted-off from Launch Complex 39-B, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on January 28, 1986. The mission ended in catastrophic failure with the destruction of Challenger, starting at 73 seconds after lift-off, and the death of all seven crew members. The Rogers Commission determined that the cause of the destruction was due to the failure of an O-ring seal on the starboard Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). This flight marked the first time a non-government civilian, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown aboard the Space Shuttle.
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| - Equipment failures in orbiter closeout, cross winds at shuttle landing site.
- Delays in STS-61-C
- Launch preparation delays
- Weather at transatlantic abort site
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| - 1986-01-22(xsd:date)
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| - Back row : Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik. Front row : Michael J. Smith, Francis "Dick" Scobee, Ronald McNair.
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| - and flew on STS-118 in 2007 as a mission specialist.
- Technical issues with fire detection system.
- Morgan would be selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998
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