All seven on board were killed, including the first schoolteacher bound for space, Christa McAuliffe. Workers at Kennedy Space Center are packing up the 84,000 pieces of the space shuttle Columbia for storage. NASA verified through video a few months ago that the piece was part of the shuttle that broke apart shortly after liftoff on Jan. The space shuttle Challenger blew apart some 73 seconds after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board. Divers searching for the wreckage of a 1940s era airplane off the coast of Florida found instead a segment of the.
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It’s one of the biggest pieces of Challenger found in the decades since the acciden t, according to Ciannilli, and the first remnant to be discovered since two fragments from the left wing washed ashore in 1996.ĭivers for a TV documentary first spotted the piece in March while looking for wreckage of a World War II plane. Listen 4:15 4-Minute Listen Playlist Download Embed Transcript NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseur about recently discovered debris. History Channel divers find piece of exploded space shuttle Challenger, Nasa says. When he saw the underwater video footage, “My heart skipped a beat, I must say, and it brought me right back to 1986 … and what we all went through as a nation.” “Of course, the emotions come back, right?” said Michael Ciannilli, a NASA manager who confirmed the remnant’s authenticity. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center announced the discovery Thursday. Though all of the important pieces of the shuttle were retrieved by the time NASA closed its Challenger investigation in 1986, most of the spacecraft remained in the Atlantic Ocean. All seven on board were killed, including the. On:JAsked by: Annabel Sanford Advertisement In March 1986, the remains of the astronauts were found in the debris of the crew cabin. (AP) - A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed a schoolteacher and six others. NASA verified through video a few months ago the piece was part of the Challenger shuttle that broke apart shortly after liftoff on Jan. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space Shuttle Challenger remnants discovered underwater by documentary crew By Jackie Wattles, CNN Updated 10:53 AM EST, Fri NovemLink Copied Piece of 1986 Space Shuttle. Not only was a rocket launch a major event, the rocket. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. A section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Florida more than three decades after it. As the seconds counted down to the Space Shuttle Challengers launch on January 28, 1986, millions of people were glued to their televisions.
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