I As before, the family doctor coming, after the blood sample in a bakery a leisurely breakfast with two rolls, jam and a pot of coffee was thick to me, I noticed that 28th January 1986 again, when exploded 73 seconds after launch at Cape Canaveral, the space shuttle Challenger . Inspired by a documentary that ran in the night to Phoenix, I came to mind, except that after the show and another, on German TV of any other TV reports nothing announced is indicative of this sad anniversary. What is sent in the news on Friday, today one can of course do not know yet.
now come to the second roll, I thought of the time 25 years ago when the then TV extra that was normal program has been interrupted and you explode in a minute, the space shuttle again and again, the solid rocket into the blue sky over Florida race saw until the fuel was burned. It was the largest ever disaster of the American space program. Until then, it was always the Russians to suffer great losses had. Only later came out that the pulpit The seven astronauts had remained largely intact and three crew members could still create their respirators (which was also described in the documentation in the night). The impact at more than 300km / h on the Atlantic then no one has survived, if the whole team was here already unconscious - by the events is to accept - there can only be speculated and puzzled. In any event, the cockpit was later found on the seabed and recovered.
The cause of the Challenger disaster was found fairly quickly: the seal rings in the right booster had been leaking and the lifting of the shuttle were black clouds of smoke identify and, as was shown in a more accurate documentation, the emerging fuel consumed in the outer shell of the main tank and brought here after all oxygen and hydrogen to explode. But it was not just the technology that has failed. The management had to before the investigating committee of Congress to admit to many mistakes. In particular, the low temperatures at the start date, the will to have to start the space shuttle necessarily to follow the schedule and the gross neglect of safety standards and the complete ignoring of warnings about the behavior of the seal rings in freezing temperatures have finally led to the disaster. Reasons which in some cases years later the crash of Space Shuttle Columbia on 3 February 2003 over Texas.
The remains of the space shuttle Challenger are still in a former missile silo the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at Launch Complex 31 is deposited .
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