From the history of the Shuttle tragedy in the conquest of KOMOS Bashny.Net

The spaceport at Cape Canaveral

The conquest of space is linked to many tragedies that occur during the preparations or in the course. Part of their forever changed the space program.

For example, after starting in 1986, the air exploded space ship and its crew. According to the official version, the reason was to seal the element accelerator solid. The result of the tragedy – the death of seven people.





The beginning of the eighties marked by the unprecedented rise of the program "space Shuttle". One after another was a successful mission, and the intervals between the launches at times was not less than twenty days. But Missy, about which speech will go, was that unusual, that on Board the "Challenger STS-51-L" was together with the crew of the teacher Christa McAuliffe. She was out of space to hold a few lessons, so a huge number of people watched the live broadcast of the launch.

Held the Shuttle launch from Florida Cape Canaveral, held on the twenty-eighth of January, the audience greeted with thunderous applause. However, it took seventy-three seconds followed by an explosion, and the earth "showered" the wreckage of the ship. The astronauts managed to survive the explosion, but the blow had fallen into the water at a speed of 330 kilometers per hour of the cabin, took their lives.

Operators still continued to take pictures of the event, and in the frame they were the people who watched the launch from the platform of the spaceport. Relatives of the crew was there, too. The whole tragedy happened before their eyes. After that year and a half the Shuttle use was banned. Then, they were given parachute system for rescue of astronauts, and scientists seriously engaged in the refinement and technology of solid-fuel accelerator.

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Source: planetologia.ru/