#space shuttle challenger

[lonestarflight]

Reference guide of all the external changes made to the Space Shuttle Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) during her lifetime.

Date: 1983-1985

Documents by Alfonso X Moreno: link

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Challenger #Challenger #OV-099 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #reference guide #STS-6 #STS-7 #STS-8 #STS-41-B #STS-41B #STS-11 #STS-41-C #STS-41C #STS-13 #STS-41-G #STS-41G #STS-17 #STS-51-B #STS-51B #STS-51-F #STS-51F #STS-61-A #STS-61A #STS-51-L #STS-51L #my post #April

[thepastisalreadywritten]

7 February 2024

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Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

On 7 February 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

#Bruce McCandless II #astronaut #spacecraft #space #Manned Maneuvering Unit #Robert L. Gibson #Hoot #Earth #space photography #NASA #universe #cosmos #Space Shuttle Challenger #First Untethered Spacewalk #spacewalk

[leophile]

If you think about it, Leo from the movie “Leo” (2023) probably witnessed the Challenger explosion because they showed that shit in classrooms as it happened…

#leo #leo netflix #space shuttle challenger #he probably witnessed 9-11 happen too #leophile

[arctic-hands]

I'm not upset discussions of Sally Ride these days don't leave out the fact that she was a lesbian and therefore the first known queer person in space (albeit a fact only known after her death), but I hate that the fact that what is left out is that she, while part of the Roger's Commission after Challenger exploded, was the whistleblower who made sure the information for the defects of the O-rings made its way to Richard Feynman, who then famously, publicly, and on camera demonstrated how icy coldness (such as the cold and icy weather the morning before Challenger launched) could critically deform the O-rings used and keep them from forming a seal. This was also only revealed after she died. (x)

Whenever Sally Ride comes up these days among my (overwhelmingly queer) friends, we all acknowledge that she was a lesbian and celebrate what a role model she was not just for girls but for queer kids (and adults) too, but everyone is always surprised when I bring up the whistleblowing thing, which I think is damn shame and a disservice to her legacy.

#Sally Ride #Space Shuttle Challenger #Rogers Commission #NASA #Richard Feynman #Donald Kutyna #morton thikol #whistleblower #She is getting a well deserved statue in California but even the news reporting on it didn't make comment of the whistleblowing

[marvelousmovies]

President Ronald Reagan on Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

#youtube #challenger #space shuttle challenger #challenger disaster #reagan #ronald reagan

[beardedmrbean]

NASA, Remembering the Challenger

#NASA #Challenger disaster #space shuttle challenger #space shuttle #one of the very few events I can point at #and say that had a massive impact on my life #still get choked up #it makes no sense that I should #but that's how these things work sometimes

[chernobog13]

Samaritan’s first mission: saving the Space Shuttle Challenger!

#Astro City #Samaritan #Alex Ross #Space Shuttle Challenger #space shuttle

[transhuman-priestess]

I am physically incapable of seeing a picture of Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia without reblogging and saying in the tags that they were good shuttles that tried so hard to save their crews and it wasn’t their fault and now I’m emotional about spaceships okay.

#nasa #space shuttle #space shuttle Columbia #space shuttle challenger

[teachersource]

Judith Resnik was born on April 5, 1949. An American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L. Resnik was the fourth woman, the second American woman, and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.

#judith resnik #astronauts #nasa #space shuttle challenger #women in space #women in history #women in science #science #science history #science birthdays #on this day #on this day in science history

[rabbitcruiser]

STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board on January 28, 1986.  

#STS-51-L mission #Space Shuttle Challenger #exploded #died #death #USA #28 January 1986 #anniversary #US history #Launch Complex 39B (LC-39) #Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex #NASA #engineering #Florida #travel #National Aeronautics and Space Administration #technology #tourist attraction #landmark #summer 2010 #2009 #original photography #replica

[dean-belongs-with-lisa]

I’m reading the official report for the Challenger accident for a school papers and… I just… as I was reading the sequence of events I kept thinking to myself “if they had noticed it here, could they have done something?”

#space shuttle challenger #nasa #I’m about to cry fr

[lonestarflight]

"View of the launch of the Shuttle Challenger during the STS-41-C mission. The orbiter has cleared the launch pad with a large cloud of smoke covering the bottom part of the frame."

Date: April 6, 1984

NASA ID: link

#STS-41-C #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Challenger #Challenger #OV-099 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #launch #LC-39A #my post

[dronescapesvideos]

The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster And The Accident Investigation With Hoot Gibson https://youtu.be/Sh7inH3E5z4

#youtube #space shuttle #space shuttle accident #hoot gibson #astronaut #space shuttle disaster #space shuttle columbia #space shuttle challenger

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#space shuttle challenger #nasa

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#University of Iowa #Plasma Dynamics Package #Space Shuttle Challenger #STS 51F #STS51F #space #astronomy #astrophotography #religion is a mental illness

[gwydionmisha]

#Space Shuttle Challenger #Ocean #NASA