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STS-51-L
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STS-51-L
STS-51-L
was the 25th flight of the American
Space Shuttle program
, and the tenth mission of the
Space Shuttle Challenger
, which lifted-off from
Launch Complex 39-B
, at the
Kennedy Space Center
in Florida, on January 28, 1986. The mission
ended in catastrophic failure
with the destruction of
Challenger
, starting at 73 seconds after lift-off, and the death of all seven crew members. The
Rogers Commission
determined that the cause of the destruction was due to the failure of an
O-ring
seal on the starboard
Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)
. This flight marked the first time a non-government civilian, schoolteacher
Christa McAuliffe
, had flown aboard the
Space Shuttle
.
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