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23 unusual facts about Space Shuttle Challenger


Barbara Marshall

She won awards for two documentaries: One on the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, and another on the life of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka.

Carlos Padilla Maqueo

The album consisted of 10 new original tracks, and includes the track What Can Be Done At This Point, song that gives the name to the album and offers a posthumous tribute to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger.

The track contains original audio of the transmission between the Challenger and mission control of the day of the unforgettable tragedy.

CBC Parliamentary Television Network

In October 1984 it was used to simulcast coverage from NASA TV of Canada's first astronaut in space, Marc Garneau aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Charles C. Carson

He also supervised the processing of the remains of victims in the NASA Challenger mission and Desert Storm as well as the air plane disaster that claimed the life of then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

Christopher Glenn

Glenn made his best-known report on January 28, 1986, when he anchored CBS Radio's live coverage of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Coast Guard Unit Commendation

One example was the award of the commendation with Operational Distinguishing Device to rescue squadrons of the U.S. Air Force and maritime patrol squadrons and helicopter squadrons of the U.S. Navy, when said units assisted the Coast Guard during search and recovery operations following the January 1986 loss of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger.

David Holsinger

It is his largest selling work and has been used in several televised memorial performances in recent years, including commemorative services for the Challenger astronauts, Ronald Reagan, and the fallen heroes of the American armed forces.

Donald J. Kutyna

Kutyna is perhaps most famous for his aid in several investigations of NASA launch failures, especially his membership on the Rogers Commission investigating the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Florida State Road 407

The street is named after Space Shuttle Challenger which disintegrated 73 seconds after launch in 1986.

FSU Hymns

Mission Control used the Fight Song to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.

Jack Ohman

In 1986, through sales of copies of his cartoons about the space shuttle Challenger accident, Ohman raised over $30,000 for the families of the astronauts.

Kent Shocknek

Shocknek first made national news headlines anchoring the 1986 launch and explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger; and a strong aftershock to the deadly 5.9 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake.

McNair SROP Michigan State University

Michigan State University Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Achievement Program/ Summer Research Opportunity Program (also referred to as the Ronald E. McNair Summer Research Program, or McNair Summer Research Institute, or McNair SROP) is a nationally recognized undergraduate research program named after Ronald McNair, a Space Shuttle Challenger crew member.

Michel Serres

He took as his subjects such diverse topics as the mythical Northwest Passage, the concept of the parasite, and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Nitza Margarita Cintrón

During the years 1979 through 1985, she also served as project scientist for the Space Lab 2 mission which was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1985.

Pål Brekke

His thesis focused on the ultraviolet (UV) emissions from the Sun observed with instruments on sounding rockets and the space shuttle Challenger.

Peter Rinearson

Rinearson was subsequently a national semifinalist for NASA's Journalists in Space project, cancelled in the wake of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.

Space Shuttle Challenger

Deployed WESTAR and Palapa B-2 communications satellites unsuccessfully (both were retrieved during STS-51-A).

Tackhead

During this period Leblanc also produced two solo LPs: the highly inventive Major Malfunction (1986) (inspired by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) and Stranger than Fiction (1989), which although credited to Leblanc, featured all the rest of members of Tackhead.

Terra-3

Terra-3 is the topic a widespread claim that the IR laser was used to target the Space Shuttle Challenger on 10 October 1984 during its 6th orbital mission on 10 October (STS-41-G).

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

The first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite was launched in 1983 on the Space Shuttle Challenger's first flight, STS-6.

William P. Rogers

Rogers led the investigation into the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.


Flight 19

In 1986, the wreckage of an Avenger was found off the Florida coast during the search for the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

HMS Challenger

The research ship Glomar Challenger and the Space Shuttle Challenger were named after this ship.

Jonathan Glatzer

The film, starring Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, is about a reporter and a group of dysfunctional high school students in the aftermath of the Challenger

Roger Boisjoly

Roger Mark Boisjoly (April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist who is best known for having raised objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew.

Sangre de Cristo Range

Two sub-peaks of Kit Carson Mountain, Challenger Point and Columbia Point, are named in memory of the crews of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the Space Shuttle Columbia.