Space shuttle challenger wreckage series#
It's part of a series about the Bermuda Triangle. The History Channel will release the discovery of the Challenger findings in an episode set to air on Nov. Wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger, STS-51L mission, retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean by a flotilla of United States Coast Guard (USCG) and United. 46,000 feet above the ground, the Shuttle exploded due to an. Divers from a television documentary about wrecks found a. Christa McAuliffe (who was a teacher participating in the launch). (Reuters) - Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger. The Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, about 73 seconds after the spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after launch on January 28, 1986, and fell into waters of the Bermuda Triangle. The Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch due to a malfunction blamed on the day's cold temperatures. At NASA, the core value of safety is – and must forever remain – our top priority, especially as our missions explore more of the cosmos than ever before." "This discovery gives us an opportunity to pause once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost, and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us. 28, 1986, still feels like yesterday," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
For millions around the globe, myself included, Jan. "While it has been nearly 37 years since seven daring and brave explorers lost their lives aboard Challenger, this tragedy will forever be seared in the collective memory of our country. Don’t miss the premiere of The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters on Tuesday, November 22 at 10/9C. What they uncover off the coast of Florida, outside of the Triangle, marks the first discovery of wreckage from the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger in more than 25 years. government, said Patti Bielling, news chief at NASA's John F. Space shuttle artifacts are property of the U.S.
The proximity of the object to the Florida Space Coast, a region around the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station where NASA launches its spaceflights, as well as the item's perceived modern construction, led the group to contact NASA. The short video shows two divers examining a large piece of debris covered with square tiles and embedded in sand. The History Channel posted footage of the dive on Twitter. NASA confirmed the findings in an announcement shared Thursday. While digging in the seabed, crew members from the History Channel discovered a piece of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger, the explosion of which resulted in the death of all seven astronauts onboard mere seconds after liftoff. A documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida for a World War II-era wreckage uncovered a very different historical artifact.
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