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- By Demi and Rylee
- April 2007
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- INTRODUCTION
- Christa McAuliffe, a young
elementary school teacher, was the first civilian to go up into space on
the Challenger. After the disaster, they discontinued sending civilians
into space.
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- The disaster happened in the U.S. above the state of Florida.
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- It happened at 11:39 AM on January 28, 1986.
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- It disintegrated 73 seconds into flight because of a rubber O-ring
failure. The unusually cold weather during the launch caused the O-rings
to allow hot gases to leak out of the booster through the joint. The
flaming gases burned a hole in the shuttle’s external fuel tank.
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- It probably could have been avoided because if they didn’t do it on a
cold day, there wouldn’t have been an O-ring failure.
- If they found out after the shuttle exploded that the cold weather
caused the O-ring failure, they might have not been able to avoid it.
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- They did rebuild the Space Shuttle and it took off in September of 1988.
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- “Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster." World Book.1917.
- Micheal D. Cole. The Challenger. Springfield New Jersey, 1995.
- Wikipeidia. “en.wikipedi.org." 21 March, 2007.
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