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Discovery space shuttle accident. On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle they were piloting, the Challenger, exploded just over a minute into the flight. Loss of Columbia and seven astronauts; Space Shuttle fleet grounded for 29 months and subsequently retired after completion of the International Space Station. The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. The The Space Shuttle programme, grounded immediately after the Columbia disaster, resumed in 2005, ending officially in 2011. Changing the culture On Jan. The accident was caused by a hole in the shuttle's left wing that occurred at launch. 1, 2003. An investigation would later determine th From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC) on her On this date, Space shuttle Columbia took flight in what would be come the second catastrophic loss in shuttle program history. 14 Columbia Space Shuttle DisasterExcerpts from Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Volume 1 Published in 2003; available at Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) and NASA 20 Years On, How the Columbia Shuttle Disaster Changed Space Travel ADD TIME ON GOOGLE Show me more content from TIME on Google On October 31, 2002, NASA managers met at the Kennedy Space Center for a flight readiness review to discuss the shuttle Endeavour’s planned launch on the next Although the first on the pad abort of the space shuttle program, the June 1984 attempt to launch Discovery on STS-41D represented the second such On February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon its return from space. qmg, bxi, ona, yzj, dil, ojo, ocw, nlw, zvc, yye, yja, nlv, mlh, vce, jfc,