SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 099 CHALLENGER 51-F MISSION

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

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...

England, Anthony W.

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Musgrave, Story, 1935-

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Story Musgrave (b. August 19, 1935, Boston, MA) is a physician and astronaut. He recieved 6 degrees from Syracuse University (BA, 1958), UCLA (MBA, 1959), Marietta Collge (BA, 1960), Columbia University (MD, 1964), University of Kentucky (MS 1966), and University of Houston (MA, 1987). Musgrave enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1953. He joined NASA in 1967 and participated in 6 space flights for a total of 1,281 hours 59 minutes, 22 seconds in space....

Henize, Karl Gordon, 1926-

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Bridges, Roy D. (Roy Dunbard), 1943-

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Roy Dunbard Bridges, Jr., was born on July 19, 1943 in Atlanta Georgia. The family later moved to Gainesville, Georgia where Bridges grew up. Bridges graduated with a Bachelor's degree in engineering science from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1965. He then earned a Master of Science degree in astronautics from Purdue University in 1966. Bridges is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General who held many key space-related roles. Prior to his last USAF assignment at Wrigh...

Fullerton, Charles G. (Charles Gordon)

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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...