#dick scobee

[lully-jo]

I do not think a day has passed that I haven't just had big hot tears about the Artemis II mission and god I am praying to every soul to protect those 4 as they return to our blue marble. Protect them Laika Protect them Félicette Protect them Gus Grissom Protect them Edward H. White Protect them Roger B. Chaffee Protect them Dick Scobee Protect them Michael J. Smith Protect them Ronald McNair Protect them Ellison Onizuka Protect them Judith Resnik Protect them Gregory Jarvis Protect them Christa McAuliffe Protect them Rick Husband Protect them William C. McCool Protect them Michael P. Anderson Protect them Kalpana Chawla Protect them David M. Brown Protect them Laurel Clark Protect them Ilan Ramon

[gravityoftwoworlds]

People throwing flowers in memory of the Challenger Crew.

The Challenger Crew before being photographed.

Challenger explosion.

[jammernews]

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and th

Remembering...

The Crew Members Who Died in the Challenger Disaster

Seven space explorers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, lost their lives in the 1986 space shuttle tragedy.

[gusgrissom]

“This good-looking group off to my right, I’d like to introduce them one at a time...”

The crew of STS-51-L in Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)

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(Credit to NASA)

[emmythespacecowgirl]

Dick Scobee/Sky Blue

“Dick was just an ordinary guy to most people. But to June, he was so much more than that. He was the promise of their dreams coming true together. As he would point out the stars in the night sky to her, she could sense that her life with - and because of Dick - would be one filled with wonder.”

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[pixoplanet]

It's January 28th. On this day in 1986, the 🗽 US 🚀 Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven aboard – Commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Pilot Michael J. Smith, Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik and Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialists Gregory B. Jarvis and S. Christa McAuliffe. The shuttle had lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, but broke up only 73 seconds into its flight. The crew was scheduled to deploy a 🛰️ communications satellite and study ☄️ Halley's Comet while they were in orbit.

Immediately after the disaster, President Ronald Reagan convened the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, also known as the Rogers Commission, which determined that an O-ring seal on the starboard solid rocket booster had failed and caused Challenger to break up in mid-flight. Space Shuttle flights were suspended for 32 months, until September 1988, while the vehicle's risks were analyzed and addressed.

The excitement over the presence of charismatic 👩‍🏫 school teacher Christa McAuliffe on the Challenger crew contributed significantly to the immense sense of grief the nation felt as a result of the accident. Many 🏫 schoolchildren were viewing the launch live, and 📺 media coverage of the accident was extensive.

In 2004, McAuliffe and the other 13 👩‍🚀 astronauts who lost their lives in both the Challenger and Columbia disasters (01 Feb 2003) were posthumously awarded the 🎖️ Congressional Space Medal of Honor. ☮️R.I.P., Astronauts. Our thoughts and memories of you will always be fresh and comforting… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

[robertiamlegendneville]

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger's STS-51L mission, which ended in tragedy shortly after launch on Jan. 28, 1986. From left to right, the astronauts are Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judy Resnik, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith and Ellison Onizuka. (Image credit: NASA)