Shuttle Launch Watch at Dunn Elementary School

Title

Shuttle Launch Watch at Dunn Elementary School

Subject

Space shuttles

Description

Seventy-three seconds after its 11:37 a.m. liftoff on September 29, 1988, those watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its five-man crew breathed a collective sigh of relief. Discovery had passed the point in its mission at which, on January 28, 1986, thirty-two months earlier, Challenger had exploded, killing its seven-person crew and bringing the U.S. civilian space program to an abrupt halt.2 After almost three years without a launch of the Space Shuttle,3 the United States had returned to flight.

--https://history.nasa.gov/

Date

1988-09-29

Files

Dunn Elemntary Shuttle Launch 9.29.88.tif
Dunn Elemntary Shuttle Launch 9.29.88 (2).tif
Dunn Elemntary Shuttle Launch 9.29.88 (3).tif

Citation

“Shuttle Launch Watch at Dunn Elementary School,” NRHTXHistory, accessed November 1, 2024, http://nrhtxhistory.com/items/show/617.