All seven on board were killed, including the first schoolteacher bound for space, Christa McAuliffe. Workers lower STS-51L Challenger wreckage remains and boxes of debris into abandoned Minuteman Missile Silos at Complex 31 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts, but they stumbled on something else a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was. The Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. (Phil Sandlin/AP) 3 min Gift Article A History Channel documentary crew has discovered a piece of the space shuttle.
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 hangs at a NASA building in 1985.
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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. 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. Nov 10 (Reuters) - Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger. The accident occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and killed seven astronauts. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center announced the discovery Thursday. 2:03 Diving team discovers debris from NASA Challenger space shuttle. (NASA) Nearly 37 years ago the world watched in stunned horror as an explosion destroyed the space shuttle Challenger. (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. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The exception is a left side shuttle panel on display at Kennedy Space Center's. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Most of the recovered wreckage remains buried in abandoned missile silos at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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