Today 30 years, more exactly makes at 11:38 am, When Florida, United States, was launched the space shuttle Challenger, but only lasted 78 seconds in the air exploding into pieces, killing all seven crew and becoming one of the worst accidents in NASA history.
The president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in announcing the sad news country, reminded the crew saying: “never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey. ”
The explosion of the shuttle put in the public eye to NASA and mission STS-51L for allegedly engaging in alleged security flaws in its missions and its astronauts.
This tragedy, which killed Ellison Onizuka Christa McAuliffe , Gregory Jarvis Judith Resnik . Michael J. Smith Francis “Dick” Scobee and Ronald McNair, is It became the most serious in the history of the space agency after the Apollo I fire that killed all its crew, which occurred on January 27, 1967
To the morning of Thursday, NASA announced posthumous victims of this tragedy, including a wreath at 11:00 am in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia tributes.
From 10:00 am the space agency Nasa has enabled its TV channel to offer live coverage of each of the ceremonies that take place throughout the United States.
is scheduled to also e recall vents in each of the NASA centers for employees and families of those who life aboard the Challenger was lost.
The celebration is organized by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization.
The Center for Marshall Space Flight NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, will make a ceremonial candle lighting for center employees throughout the day.
The Johnson Space Center in Houston, will hold an event . for employees that includes placing flowers at the Apollo, Challenger and Columbia
The astronauts who died were: Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Michael J. Smith, Francis “Dick” Scobee and Ronald McNair.
courtesy of NASA
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