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/
--https://history.nasa.gov/
Date
1988-09-29
Files
Collection
Citation
“Shuttle Launch Watch at Dunn Elementary School,” NRHTXHistory, accessed November 1, 2024, http://nrhtxhistory.com/items/show/617.
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