On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts Christa McAuliffe, (an American History and English teacher), Judith Resnik, (Mission Specialist), Francis (Dick) Scobee, (Spacecraft Commander),Ronald McNair, (Mission Specialist), Michael Smith, (Pilot), Ellison Onizuka, (Mission Specialist),and Gregory Jarvis, (Payload Specialist), dove into an adventure that would take one American citizen (a teacher) into the depths of space.
The Challenger was an extremely inspirational mission, just not in the way America had hoped. Showing the disaster live on television everywhere the crash scared everyone watching.
Christa McAuliffe was chosen to go into space in a contest held by NASA, and was chosen 1 out of more than 11,000 applicants. She taught American History and English in Concord, New Hampshire. Her parents, two children, and students from Concord watched the shuttle disaster, not knowing what happened at first. …show more content…
The engineers warned the seven astronauts that the rubber O-rings, which sealed the joints inside of the solid rocket boosters, had a tendency of failing in low temperature situations. The advice to the crew had gone overlooked and the shuttle still took off. Now, it seems as though this whole disaster could have been avoided. At .678 seconds, there was grey smoke puffing out near the AFT field joint in the right Solid Rocket Booster, an area facing the External Tank. This indicated that the booster was not sealing
The Challenger was an extremely inspirational mission, just not in the way America had hoped. Showing the disaster live on television everywhere the crash scared everyone watching.
Christa McAuliffe was chosen to go into space in a contest held by NASA, and was chosen 1 out of more than 11,000 applicants. She taught American History and English in Concord, New Hampshire. Her parents, two children, and students from Concord watched the shuttle disaster, not knowing what happened at first. …show more content…
The engineers warned the seven astronauts that the rubber O-rings, which sealed the joints inside of the solid rocket boosters, had a tendency of failing in low temperature situations. The advice to the crew had gone overlooked and the shuttle still took off. Now, it seems as though this whole disaster could have been avoided. At .678 seconds, there was grey smoke puffing out near the AFT field joint in the right Solid Rocket Booster, an area facing the External Tank. This indicated that the booster was not sealing