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Astronaut Christa McAuliffe, September, 26 1985
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Astronaut Robert L. Stewart tests the nitrogen propelled, hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (MMU) as part of an extravehicular activity (EVA) during Flight 41-B of the space shuttle Challenger. The MMU is a device which allows astronauts to move freely in space without a tether. (February 7, 1984)
File Reference # 1003_593THA
The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.
File Reference # 1003_589THA
The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through the Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first liftoff on the STS-6 mission. The fully assembled Shuttle, weighting 12,000 pounds less than predecessor Columbia, completed the trip to the pad in just over six hours on Nov. 30, 1982.
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Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS 41-B mission specialist, participates in a historical spacewalk. He is pictured a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. This spacewalk represented the first use of a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which allows for much greater mobility than that afforded previous space walkers who had to use restrictive tethers. (February 7, 1984)
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The Space Shuttle Challenger taken with a 70mm camera onboard the shuttle pallet
satellite, June 22, 1983.
File Reference # 1003_030THA