The Challenger Accident

The space shuttle Challenger lifted off at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:38 A.M. on January 28, 1986, on shuttle mission 51-L. At just under 74 seconds into the flight, an explosion occurred, causing the loss of the shuttle and its entire crew, consisting of: Francis R. Scobee, Michael John Smith, Ellison S.Onizuka, Judith Arlene Resnik, Ronald Erwin McNair, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Bruce Jarvis.
Christa McAuliffe the 37-year-old schoolteacher from New Hampshire was, the first civilian to be selected for a shuttle Crew (carlos byars) and Gregory Jarvis was an engineer rep…