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Space Shuttle Challenger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (487 words)
Challenger, along with Discovery was modified at KSC to be able to carry the Centaur upper-stage in its payload bay.
Challenger was one of two space shuttles destroyed in an accident during a mission, the other being Columbia.
During the second minute of its tenth mission in January 1986, the Challenger was destroyed, due to the failure of an SRB seal.
John F. Kennedy Space Center - Space Shuttle Challenger (549 words)
On January 28, 1986, the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in the breakup of the vehicle.
Challenger had been built with a simulated crew module and the forward fuselage halves had to be separated to gain access to the crew module.
wo orbiters, Challenger and Discovery, were modified at KSC to enable them to carry the Centaur upper stage in the payload bay.
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