Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983, and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before exploding 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986. (For more on the Challenger disaster, see STS-51-L.) It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster.

External links

• Orbiter Vehicles
• Shuttle Orbiter Challenger (OV-99)
• Rogers Commission Report
• Astronautix on Challenger
• Challenger Mission Videos of the Accident from Spaceflightnow.com
• NASA film on the accident and investigation downloadable from archive.org The Internet Archive