The Space Shuttle Challenger was a commonly used shuttle in the early 1980s, completing important tasks such as the first spacewalk and hosting the first female and African American in space. It disintegrated upon launch due to a leak in the solid rocket booster caused by a hardened O-ring and strong wind gusts, killing all […]
The Challenger disaster occurred in 1986 when the Space Shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew members. The cause was a failure of an O-ring on a solid-fuel rocket, and the disaster led to a moratorium on shuttle launches and the formation of the Rogers Commission. The investigation found that NASA’s organizational […]
