IMAGE 400_499\483.Lbm,Emblem for STS-51L, Challenger, January 1986: Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, McAuliffe, Jarvis. Loss of Challenger 73 seconds into flight.
IMAGE 800_899\864.Lbm,Christa McAuliffe in training for the fateful STS-51L flight of Challenger. She was aiming to become the first teacher in space.
IMAGE 1800_99\896.Lbm,Two shuttles on the pads for the first time, in December 1985. In the foreground on pad A is Columbia (STS-61C); on pad B is Challenger (STS-51L).
IMAGE 200_299\295.Lbm,Ice festoons the launch pad gantry on the morning of January 28, 1986, hours before Challenger is due to lift off on the fateful STS-51L mission.
IMAGE 0_99\35.Lbm,The ill-fated crew of Challenger head for the launch pad on January 28, 1986, hours before lift-off on the STS-51L mission. They are (front to rear): Francis Scobee, Judy Resnik, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Ellison Onizuka and Gregory Jarvis.
IMAGE 200_299\296.Lbm,The moment of lift-off for Challenger on the STS-51L mission. Ominously a puff of smoke is emerging from a joint in the right- hand SRB.
IMAGE 0_99\66.Lbm,Some 70 seconds after lift-off on STS-51L, flames are beginning to engulf the shuttle stack. Three seconds later Challenger disintegrates, killing all seven crew.
IMAGE 200_299\297.Lbm,One of the SRBs emerges from the fireball that blasted Challenger apart 73 seconds after lift-off on the STS-51L mission.
IMAGE 1900_99\986.Lbm,The nose section of one of Challenger's SRBs being lowered into an abandoned Minuteman missile silo at Cape Canaveral, where the orbiter's remains are being stored. (STS-51L)
IMAGE 1800_99\898.Lbm,The remains of Challenger's 'seven star voyagers' leave the Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 1986. (STS-51L)
IMAGE 1800_99\897.Lbm,After Challenger's tragic accident, mourners lay wreathes at the astronauts' home, the Johnson Space Center, Houston. (STS-51L)
IMAGE 600_699\649.Lbm,A montage of images to commemorate the seven astronauts who perished in the Challenger disaster (STS-51L) in January 1986. Pictured clockwise from the left: Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Dick Scobee, Mike Smith, Greg Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe.
