Mission Control on Challenger space shuttle disaster

Title

Mission Control on Challenger space shuttle disaster

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Jan 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:00:34

Description

Statement by NASA’s Steve Nesbitt, Mission Control in Houston, on the Challenger space shuttle disaster (28/01/86) search and rescue/salvage operation. The spacecraft broke apart 73 seconds into its flight over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.

Contributors

Stephen A. Nesbitt

Keywords

USA; Air accidents; Deaths; Explosions; NASA; Astronauts; Space shuttles; Search and rescue operations; Challenger; Christa McAuliffe; Michael J. Smith; Dick Scobee; Ronald McNair; Ellison Onizuka; Gregory Jarvis; Judith Resnik

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