Space Shuttle Challenger
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Space Shuttle Challenger was a spaceship used by NASA to fly into outer space. The shuttle crashed 73 seconds after take-off on 28 January 1986. All seven people who were on it at the time were killed. The crash happened because a rubber tube called an o-ring did not expand to fill a gap in one of the booster rockets, due to cold weather.
[change] Astronauts
Francis "Dick" Scobee
Mike Smith
Judith Resnik
Ellison Onizuka
Ronald McNair
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe, first teacher in space