It is believed that in 1986, during the US launch of the space shuttle Challenger, the shuttle exploded, killing the entire crew.

The Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Challenger spacecraft exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The shuttle crashed at 11:39 EST (16:39 UTC, 19:39 MSK) over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of central Florida, USA.
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The destruction of the aircraft was caused by damage to the o-ring of the right solid fuel booster during take-off. Damage to the ring caused the accelerator seams to rupture, followed by hot gases high pressure broke out of the solid propellant engine, penetrated into the adjacent structures of the accelerator and reached the external fuel tank. This led to the destruction of the tail mount of the right solid rocket booster, damage and explosion of the external fuel tank. The destruction of the main fuel tank released all the liquid hydrogen and oxygen it contained. The fuel elements, combining in the air, formed a fiery flash hundreds of meters away.

At this moment, the damaged ship was still climbing, but soon its flight became unstable. As a result of a combination of damage and the asymmetrical action of aerodynamic loads, the tail section of the ship and the engine compartment were torn off. The wings were separated, and then the cabin with the crew was separated from the cargo compartment. The shuttle debris fell into Atlantic Ocean.

Later, as a result of a lengthy search and rescue operation, many fragments of the ship, including the crew compartment, were raised from the ocean floor. Although the exact time of the crew's death is unknown, it turned out that some of its members managed to survive the main explosion. However, the shuttle was not equipped with an emergency escape system, and the astronauts did not survive the collision of the compartment with the surface of the ocean.

Challenger shuttle disaster 1986

But is it?

The Challenger space shuttle tragedy occurred in 1986. live, in front of the whole world. Interestingly, it was in this launch that the United States was 200% confident, and it was decided to broadcast the launch live to the whole world. Books and lengthy articles in serious magazines and newspapers are dedicated to this event. And suddenly it turned out that the astronomers from the Challenger were alive and living quietly in the USA, and some did not even change their documents and live under their own names and surnames.

Michael J. Smith did not change his name or passport details. Works as a teacher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It is curious that Michael Jay Smith became a professor of industrial engineering and psychology in 1986, and serves as such to this day.

Richard Scobee also did not bother with documents, and lives under his own name. He works as the chief of one serious company (Cows in Trees ltd). By the way, his son was responsible for intercepting allegedly terrorist planes that rammed shopping centers in New York.

The other two living astronauts are not as brave as their aforementioned counterparts, so they pose as twin brothers. Quite unexpectedly, two astronauts turned out to have twin brothers. Personally, in my entire life, I have never encountered such a thing that in one small group of people, 2 people met with twin brothers. According to statistics, the probability of having twins is 1/250. It's easy to guess that the probability of having twins twice is 1/62500 for a team of two people, and 1/17857 for a Shuttle team of 7 people. In short, this is fantastic, dear ones.

Modern photos of the Challenger astronauts. They are alive

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RONALD MC NAIR impersonates Carl Mc Nair, ELLISON ONIZUKA impersonates Claude Onizuka.

The Challenger women are also alive. Both teach law, at Yale and Syracuse universities, respectively. No traces of the 7th astronaut have yet been found. At the time of the flight he was 42 years old, now he would be 71, it is quite possible that he died a natural death, or he was simply killed so as not to talk too much. Or he was the only one who was actually on board the Shuttle.

The whole world saw that the shuttle exploded, fell into pieces, its fragments fell into the ocean. No one could survive. From this there is a very simple conclusion - there were no survivors on the shuttle. It's all Hollywood. USA shows start empty tin can, and then broadcasts the picture from the studio.

Some conspiracy theorists, by the way, believe that the United States blew up the Challenger themselves, on purpose. Why did they need this - there are many versions, for example, the shuttle program turned out to be much less effective than the one used by Russia and the United States on this moment. But admitting this is a catastrophic loss of face. And a staged “disaster” broadcast to the whole world (what other launch was so widely covered?) is a very suitable reason to curtail an unprofitable program and switch to a more promising and economical one at the moment with one-time launches.

Be that as it may, the fact remains that the Challenger crew was not on board at the time of the explosion. And the US hid this from everyone.

N.B. This is from the same series as “the Americans were on the Moon”... A country of deceptions, fakes and Hollywood...

On January 28, 1986, at 11:38 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from platform 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The entire crew of seven died 73 seconds later in the explosion. Today, 25 years after this tragedy, America honors the memory of the brave crew members who gave their lives for the dream of getting into space. Sharon Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire, was selected by NASA in a nationwide competition to fly into space. January 28, 2011 is the gloomy anniversary of the terrible tragedy.

1. Crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. From left to right: Allison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judith Resnick. (NASA/1986)

2. Christa McAuliffe at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. An entire generation, including McAuliffe's students, has grown up since she and six astronauts died on Jan. 28, 1986—a quarter-century ago. The former students wanted to make sure that people who were not yet born when their beloved teacher died could learn about her and her dream of going into space. (AP/1985)

3. Christa McAuliffe at the Lions Club parade in front of New Hampshire Town Hall with her daughter Carolyn and son Scott. McAuliffe was a teacher who taught sociology at Concord High School. NASA chose her to fly into space. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott/1985)

4. McAuliffe, the first American teacher in space, conducts his volunteer orchestra, called the Never Band, on the lawn of City Hall. The school held a "Christa McAuluff Day" and she performed the anthem "Stars and Stripes Forever" with the orchestra. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott/1985)

5. Christa McAuliffe jogging with friends in Concord, New Hampshire. (AP/Jim Cole)

6. Christa McAuliffe celebrates the news of space flight with friends the day after her visit to The White house. (The Concord Monitor/Suzanne Kreiter)

7. McAuliffe aboard a test aircraft on January 2, 1986, during landing practice, a day after arriving at NASA from Houston.

8. McAuliffe prepares for a test flight in the T-38 fighter in September 1985. This was part of her preparation for her 1986 space flight.

9. McAuliffe aboard a T-38 fighter jet over Galveston Bay during testing before the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. On background You can see part of Galveston Island and Houston on the left. McAuluff presented the Teacher in Space project aboard the shuttle. (AP/1986)

10. Christa McAuliffe controls the robotic arms aboard the Space Shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center in July 1985. (UPI)

11. McAuliffe during a zero-gravity training flight in October 1985. (UPI)

12. McAuliffe signs autographs before a ceremony announcing she was chosen as the first teacher to fly into space. City officials presented her with an engraved plate and a city flag. (AP/Suzanne Kreiter/1985)

13. McAuliffe near the space shuttle Challenger on platform 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October 1985. (AP/Jim Neihouse)

14. Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan (right) during a training session in 1986. (NASA)

15. McAuliffe is at the van that will take her to the launch platform. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott)

16. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger heads to the launch platform at the Kennedy Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In the foreground are Commander Francis Scobee, Specialist Judith Resnick, Specialist Ronald McNair, Instrument Bay Specialist Gregory Jarvis, Specialist Allison Onizuka, Teacher Christa McAuliffe, and Pilot Michael Smith. (AP/Steve Helber)

18. Classmates of Christa McAuliffe's son rejoice at the launch of the shuttle. Their joy soon turned to horror - the entire shuttle crew was killed in the explosion 73 seconds later. (AP/Jim Cole)

19. Sequential photographs of the Challenger shuttle disaster. An ignition in the solid rocket booster led to an explosion that killed all seven crew members. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)

20. Shuttle explosion 73 seconds after takeoff. This photo became a symbol of the tragedy of the entire American nation. (Bruce Weaver/AP)

21. McAuliffe's family had just heard a warning from NASA over the loudspeaker that a tragedy had occurred. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott/1986)

22. Teachers and students of the school where McAuliffe worked were shocked by what was happening: before their eyes, debris from the shuttle fell from the sky. (The New York Times/Keith Meyers)

23. NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw reports the terrible news: the Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members. (NBC News)

24. US President Ronald Reagan, surrounded by officials, watches a replay of the shuttle explosion on TV in the White House. From left to right: White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speaks, Assistant to the President Dennis Thomas, Special Assistant Jim Coons, President Reagan, White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan and Chief of Staff Donald Regan. (AP/Craig Fuji)

25. Shopper David Kimball and store employees Lynn Beck and Lisa Olson after watching a memorial service for the astronauts who died during the Challenger launch. On the screen are relatives of one of the astronauts. (AP/Charles Krupa/1986)

26. A huge piece of the Challenger shuttle on the beach in Florida. It washed ashore on December 17, 1996. (AP/Malcolm Denemark)

27. A cross and wreath depicting the shuttle on the shore with a Coast Guard cutter searching for the wreckage of the shuttle in the background, in Cape Canaveral. (AP/Jim Neihouse/1986)

28. Sailors from the USS Preserver pull part of the inertial upper stage rocket body out of the sea after the Challenger explosion. The stage was supposed to lift satellite tracking data to a higher orbit. The debris was found at a depth of 21 meters, 32 kilometers northeast of the space center. (AP)

30. Shipwreck on the huge grate at the Kennedy Center in March 1986. NASA hoped to piece together the remains of the ship. This photo was part of the evidence for the presidential commission. (NASA)

31. Color aides carry the remains of Christa McAuliffe from the plane to the hearse at Dover Air Force Base. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott/1986)

32. Headstone at the grave of Christa McAuliffe. She earned the title of "first teacher in space" posthumously, but for many she remained a beloved, energetic teacher who devoted herself entirely to education. (AP/Jim Cole)

33. Students walk past a display in memory of Christa McAuliffe in February 2003 at an exhibition about the history of the space shuttle. McAuliffe and the six other Challenger crew members are remembered for their courage and desire to explore space. (AP/Mike Roemer)

34. A wreath honors the seven astronauts who died on the space shuttle Challenger in Memorial Grove during the annual memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on January 27, 2011. (AP/Houston Chronicle/Smiley N. Pool)

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The tragedy that befell the American space shuttle Challenger became one of the largest space disasters of the 20th century. What caused it? And is everything so clear here?

Challenger history

In 1971, the construction of reusable spacecraft began in the United States - “Space Shuttle”, which means “space shuttle”. They had to shuttle between the Earth and its orbit, delivering various cargo to orbital stations. In addition, the tasks of the shuttles included installation and construction works in orbit and conducting scientific research.
In July 1982, NASA received the Challenger shuttle. Before the fateful day, he had already experienced nine successful launches.
On January 28, 1986, the shuttle performed its next space flight. There were seven people on board: 46-year-old crew commander, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Richard Scobie; 40-year-old co-pilot, Captain Michael John Smith; 39-year-old scientific specialist, Lt. Col. Allison Shoji Onizuka; 36-year-old professional pilot and scientist Judith Arlen Resnick; 35-year-old physicist Ronald Erwin McNair; 41-year-old payload specialist, US Air Force Capt. Gregory Bruce Jarvis; and finally, 37-year-old payload specialist Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, a school teacher by profession, is the only civilian on the team.
Problems arose even before the flight. The launch of the ship was postponed several times due to various organizational, weather and technical problems. Finally it was scheduled for the morning of January 28th. The temperature by this time had dropped to -1°C. Engineers warned NASA management that this could affect the condition of the engine's O-rings and recommended delaying the launch again, but they were not listened to. In addition, the launch pad became icy, but by 10 o’clock in the morning the ice began to melt, and the launch still took place.

The disaster and its consequences

The launch took place at 11:40 a.m. from the Florida coast. Seven seconds later, gray smoke began to billow from the base of the right booster. At the 58th second of flight, the shuttle began to collapse. Liquid hydrogen began to leak from the external tank, and the pressure in it dropped to a critical level. 73 seconds into the flight, the tank completely collapsed, and the Challenger turned into a fireball. The crew members had no chance of salvation: there was no system for evacuating people on board.
The wreckage of the ship fell into the Atlantic Ocean. On March 7, the military discovered a cabin containing the bodies of the dead at the bottom of the sea. When examining the bodies, it turned out that for some time after the disaster, three astronauts - Smith, Onizuka and Resnik - were still alive, since the cabin was torn off from the tail section. They managed to turn on personal air supply devices. But they could no longer survive the strong impact on the water.
By May 1, 55% of the shuttle fragments were recovered from the water. The investigation into the causes of the crash was carried out for several months by the special secret Rogers Commission (named after its chairman, William Pierce Rogers). Its members included scientists, engineers, astronauts and military personnel.
The commission eventually submitted a report to President Reagan detailing the causes and circumstances of the Challenger's demise. It was stated there that the immediate cause of the incident was damage to the o-ring of the right solid fuel accelerator. It did not work when exposed to a shock load during engine starting, as it lost its elasticity due to the low temperature.
This led to the displacement of the ship's elements and its deviation from the given trajectory, as a result of which it was destroyed as a result of aerodynamic overloads.
The shuttle program was canceled for three years. The United States suffered huge losses amounting to $8 billion. NASA itself was also reorganized, in particular, a special department was created there, responsible for the safety of space travel.

Is the Challenger crash a fake?

Meanwhile, in addition to the official version about technical problems as the reason for the Challenger disaster, there is another, purely conspiracy theory. It says that the shuttle crash was a fake, staged by NASA. But why was it necessary to destroy the ship? Very simply, conspiracy theorists say, the shuttle program did not bring the expected effect, and in order not to lose face in front of the USSR, the main competitor in the field of space exploration, the United States decided to look for a reason to terminate the program and switch to traditional one-time launches. Although in fact shuttles continued to be built and launched, take, for example, the shuttle Columbia, which crashed in 2003...
What about the dead crew? The same conspiracy sources claim that there was no one on board the shuttle at the time of the explosion! And that the supposedly dead astronauts are actually alive. So, Richard Scobie allegedly lives under his own name, heads the company "Cows in Trees ltd." Michael Smith teaches at the University of Wisconsin. Onizuka and McNair allegedly pretend to be their own twin brothers (isn't it strange that two crew members suddenly have twin brothers?) And Judith Resnick and Christa McAuliffe teach law - one at Yale, the other at Syracuse University. And only about Gregory Jarvis nothing is known. It is possible that he was the only one killed on board!
But it is clear that all these are just unfounded allegations, and there is no real evidence for this version. Well, how supposedly dead person can live and work under his own name without it becoming known to the general public? Not to mention the “twins”. It is possible that there really are people in the United States with the same names as the dead astronauts, but this does not mean anything. So the only and main version of the Challenger disaster so far remains a technical oversight.

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1. Crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. From left to right: Allison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judith Resnick. (NASA/1986)

5. Christa McAuliffe jogging with friends in Concord, New Hampshire. (AP/Jim Cole)

6. Christa McAuliffe celebrates the news of space flight with friends the day after her visit to. (The Concord Monitor/Suzanne Kreiter)

7. McAuliffe aboard a test aircraft on January 2, 1986, during landing practice, a day after arriving at NASA from Houston.

8. McAuliffe prepares for a test flight in the T-38 fighter in September 1985. This was part of her preparation for her 1986 space flight.

9. McAuliffe aboard a T-38 fighter jet over Galveston Bay during testing before the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. Parts of Galveston Island and Houston can be seen in the background on the left. McAuluff presented the Teacher in Space project aboard the shuttle. (AP/1986)

10. Christa McAuliffe controls the robotic arms aboard the Space Shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center in July 1985. (UPI)

11. McAuliffe during a zero-gravity training flight in October 1985. (UPI)

13. McAuliffe near the space shuttle Challenger on platform 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October 1985. (AP/Jim Neihouse)

14. Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan (right) during a training session in 1986. (NASA)

15. McAuliffe is at the van that will take her to the launch platform. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott)

18. Classmates of Christa McAuliffe's son rejoice at the launch of the shuttle. Their joy soon turned to horror - the entire shuttle crew was killed in the explosion 73 seconds later. (AP/Jim Cole)

19. Sequential photographs of the Challenger shuttle disaster. An ignition in the solid rocket booster led to an explosion that killed all seven crew members. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)

20. Shuttle explosion 73 seconds after takeoff. This photo became a symbol of the tragedy of the entire American nation. (Bruce Weaver/AP)

21. McAuliffe's family had just heard a warning from NASA over the loudspeaker that a tragedy had occurred. (The Boston Globe/Janet Knott/1986)

22. Teachers and students of the school where McAuliffe worked were shocked by what was happening: before their eyes, debris from the shuttle fell from the sky. (The New York Times/Keith Meyers)

23. NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw reports the terrible news: the Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members. (NBC News)

26. A huge piece of the Challenger shuttle on the beach in Florida. It washed ashore on December 17, 1996. (AP/Malcolm Denemark)

27. A cross and wreath depicting the shuttle on the shore with a Coast Guard cutter searching for the wreckage of the shuttle in the background, in Cape Canaveral. (AP/Jim Neihouse/1986)

29. Members of the Presidential Commission to Investigate the Challenger Explosion walk past the shuttle's solid rocket booster and external tank in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Center. (AP)32. Christa McAuliffe's gravestone. She earned the title of "first teacher in space" posthumously, but for many she remained a beloved, energetic teacher who devoted herself entirely to education. (AP/Jim Cole)

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The meaning of the word challenger

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challenger

"CHALLENGER" is the name of English ships:

a steam corvette, on which in 1872-76, under the leadership of C. W. Thomson, an oceanographic expedition around the world was completed.

The first expedition ship to conduct oceanographic research in the Pacific. in the 50s 20th century A modern US research vessel for deep-sea drilling of the ocean floor, the Glomar Challenger, built in 1968, is named in memory of the Challenger.

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see "Space Shuttle".

Challenger

"Challenger"(“Challenger”, literally ≈ challenging), an English military three-masted corvette with sail equipment and an auxiliary engine of 885 kW (1200 hp). Length 62.5 m, displacement 2300 tons. In 1872, rebuilt into an oceanographic vessel for hydrological, geological, chemical, biological and meteorological work. In 1872≈76 on “Ch.” completed a circumnavigation of the world (head of the expedition C.W. Thomson, captain J. Nares), in which information on physical and chemical characteristics water, relief, geological structure of the ocean floor.

"Ch." ≈ the first-born of the world oceanographic fleet. In memory of "Ch." called modern n.-i. US vessel for deep-sea drilling of the ocean floor ≈Glomar Challenger, built in 1968 (engine power 7.36 MWm, or 10,000 hp, length 122 m, displacement 10,500 m, speed 12 mph).

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Challenger (shuttle)

"Challenger"- NASA's reusable transport spacecraft, the second space shuttle; Construction of the Challenger began on January 28, 1979, and it was commissioned by NASA on July 5, 1982.

The space shuttle Challenger was named after a seagoing vessel that explored the ocean in the 1870s. At NASA, the Challenger shuttle was designated OV-99 (Orbiter Vehicle - 99). It was originally intended only for test purposes, but was then refurbished and prepared for launches into space. The Challenger launched for the first time on April 4, 1983. In total, he completed 9 successful flights. It crashed during its tenth launch on January 28, 1986.

The Challenger Hills on Pluto are named in his honor.

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Challenger (tank)

FV4030/4 Challenger- British main battle tank of the 1980s. It was developed by the company in the second half of the 1970s based on the Shir-2, an export version of the Chieftain tank. Serially produced from 1983 to 1990. A total of 420 units were produced. By the end of the 1990s, it was replaced in the British Army by Challenger 2 tanks, and the withdrawn vehicles were sold to Jordan. In comparative shooting against Abrams and Leopard, the tank showed on average low capabilities, after which it stopped participating in such events.

Challenger (cruising tank)

Cruiser tank Mk.VIII "Challenger" , A30- British medium cruising tank - fighter of the Second World War. It was created on the extended chassis of the Cromwell tank in 1942 and, armed with the most powerful British tank gun at that time, the QF 17 pounder, was intended for fire support and combat against armored vehicles at long distances. With the advent of the Sherman Firefly tank, which had the same weapons but had a number of advantages, the Challenger turned out to be largely redundant and only 200 tanks of this type were produced during serial production in 1943 - 1944. The Challengers were supplied to units that were armed with Cromwell tanks to simplify the supply of mostly similar vehicles, and were used in combat operations in Europe in 1944-1945 by both British and, in smaller numbers, Polish and Czechoslovak units. Since 1945, about 250 tanks of a modified version, the Avenger, were produced, distinguished by a larger turret open at the top, but the first Avengers entered service with the troops after the end of the war

Challenger (film)

"Challenger"- a television film directed by James Howes, dedicated to the investigation of the crash of the space shuttle Challenger. The premiere took place on May 12, 2013 on the channel BBC Two. The film is based on Richard Feynman's book "Why Do You Care What Other People Think?" ( What Do You Care What Other People Think?, 1988) and on the book "Truth, Lies and O-Rings" by Allan MacDonald and James Hansen ( Truth, Lies and O-Rings). The film won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Dramatic Television Film.

Examples of the use of the word challenger in literature.

Of course, polysynthetic,” he agreed condescendingly. Challenger.

However, Professor Drisinger, who is supported by the entire Berlin School, believes that this is a protective liquid, similar to that which is thrown out by a skunk, and it serves to protect Mother Earth from the encroachments of all sorts of annoying creatures. Challengers.

Challenger I also found something worthy of his attention - it was a strongly bubbling mud geyser, the jets of which were boiling with bubbles that released some kind of gas unknown to us.

Challenger He lowered a hollow reed into the geyser, put a match to it and, like a schoolboy, screamed with joy when the ignited gas exploded and blazed with blue fire.

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