Launch of Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 1985. The Space Shuttle, the world's first partially reusable launch...
The Space Shuttle Challenger blasted off at noon EDT from the launch pad at Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center.
Faces of spectators register horror, shock, and sadness after witnessing the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff, a...
Smoke billows in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The Solid Rocket Booster...
Trail of smoke leads up into the sky and then ends where the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. All...
The space shuttle Challenger mission STS 51-L crew pose for a portrait while training at Kennedy Space Center's Launch complex 39, Pad B in Florida...
Five astronauts and two payload specialists make up the STS 51-L crew, scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in January of 1986....
Faces of spectators register incomprehension and shock as they witness the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff, a...
The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes off of Cape Canaveral, FL, on Jan. 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its...
Space shuttle Challenger lifts off 28 January 1986 from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, 72 seconds before its explosion killing it crew of...
Space Shuttle Challenger waiting on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida before its first mission , January 26th, 1983.
Christa McAuliffe's family reacts to the malfunction warning on the coast of Cape Canaveral, FL, on Jan. 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke...
Four of the astronauts selected for the Space Shuttle Challenger mission in 1986 sit in the shuttle mission simulator . From left they are, Michael...
Cape Canaveral, FL- The contrail of the Space Shuttle Challenger can be seen over the Kennedy Space Center after an apparent explosion of the orbiter.
This photo, released by NASA, of the 28 January explosion which destroyed the Space shuttle Challenger and killed all seven crew members 75 seconds...
The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger walk out 28 January 1986 of NASA headquarters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the way to their 7 day...
Wreckage from the Space Shuttle Challenger, retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean, returned to the Trident Basin at Cape Canaveral Air Force station...
This photo released by NASA, of the 28 January 1986 explosion which destroyed the Space shuttle Challenger and killed all seven crew members 75...
Sequential photos, relased 15 February 1986, taken by NASA during the catastrophic flight of the Space shuttle Challenger, 28 January 1986, show a...
The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger walk out of the Operations Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on their way to launch Pad-39B. Crew...
Pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger are arranged in a hangar after being salvaged from the Atlantic Ocean where they were scattered, on January...
Picture released and taken in April 1986 at Kennedy Space Center shows the wreckage from the Space Shuttle Challenger displayed in the Logistic...
Three workers support a section of the Space Shuttle Challenger as it is lowered into an abandoned Minuteman Missile silo at Complex 31 at Cape...
The Space Shuttle Challenger, built by Rockwell, blasts off from Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 3, 1984.
Picture taken 28 January 1986 by NASA showing the solid fuel rocket booster of the space shuttle Challenger starting to explode over Kennedy Space...
--- The space shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through the Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first...
The Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A on mission STS 41-B on February 3, 1984.
Landing, California, USA, June 24, 1983. Space Shuttle Challenger's STS-7 mission lands at Edwards Air Force Base. Artist NASA.
Wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger displayed in the Logistics Facility of Kennedy Space Center in Houston, Texas, 9th April 1986. The wreckage...
Streams of smoke follow hurtling debris after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The explosion claimed the lives of seven crew members....
Computer-generated image illustrating part of the malfunction which led to the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart 73 seconds...
Crew portrait for STS-61A mission ahead of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-61-A, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, 27th September 1985....
Investigators wearing facemasks inspect two segments of the left-hand Solid Rocket Booster , originally slated for space shuttle mission STS-61-G,...
The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through Florida fog to Launch PAd 39A in preparation for its first liftoff,...
Wreckage from the Space Shuttle Challenger being lowered into an abandoned Minuteman Missile Silo at Complex 31 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
The space shuttle 'Challenger' malfunctions shortly after take-off, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members, 28th January 1986.
Photographers photograph the Space Shuttle Challenger on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the orbitor's early-morning...
Streams of smoke follow hurtling debris after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The explosion claimed the lives of seven crew members....
High above the Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Atlantic coastline, the Space Shuttle Challenger heads toward its second Earth-orbital mission....
Special for the Denver Post; Kennedy Space Center,Fla., Jan. 28--an explosion ripps the sky as the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after an early...
This photo released by NASA from the 28 January 1986 launch of the Space shuttle Challenger shows black smoke coming from the o-ring seal area of the...
Spectators watch as the Space Shuttle Challenger leaving a plume of smoke at the launch of mission STS-51-F launch from Kennedy Space Center on...
Mourners attend the memorial service for the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger , which was destroyed shortly after the launch of shuttle mission STS...
Tile technicians install the underside tiles of the thermal protection system of the Space Shuttle Challenger at the Space Transportation Systems...
The Space Shuttle Challenger, 5 seconds after lift-off off of Cape Canaveral, FL, on Jan. 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73...
Sharon Christa McAuliffe, a teacher who was to become the first citizen observer/payload specialist in space, trains for the Space Shuttle Challenger...
In honor of the the one year anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, flags at the John F. Kennedy Space Center are lowered to half...
Cape Canaveral: Members of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident Sally Ride, Robert Hotz, Chairman William Rogers, and...
Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire, was selected by NASA to be the first teacher to go into space aboard...
Press photographers rest while waiting for the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger at Kennedy Space Center in Florida the morning of its maiden launch...
The Space shuttle Challenger lifts off on apparently flawless launch 28 January 1986 over Space Kennedy Center. Challenger, carrying seven crew...
Astronaut Sally Ride in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American...
Actress Jane Fonda and her family watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger carrying the first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, into space. Fonda...
Actress Jane Fonda and her family watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger carrying the first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, into space. Fonda...
Actress Jane Fonda and her family watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger carrying the first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, into space. Fonda...
