SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 099 CHALLENGER 51-B MISSION
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Challenger (Spacecraft)
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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 breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...
Thagard, Norman E., 1943-
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Norman Thagard (b. July 3, 1943, Marianna, FL) was a NASA astronaut who served on the Challenger, Atlantis, and Discovery shuttles. He was also the first American to serve on a Russian space vehicle....
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973. It consists of a complex of one hundred buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in the Clear Lake Area of Houston. The center is home to NASA's astron...
Gregory, Frederick Drew, 1941-
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Frederick Drew Gregory (b. January 7, 1941, Washington, D.C.), is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. He is a former military engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, as well as former NASA administrator....
