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The explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, taken from the TV-3 camera. At T+72.284, the right SRB pulled away from the aft strut that attached it to the ET, causing lateral acceleration that was felt by the crew. At the same time, pressure in the LH2 tank began dropping. Pilot Mike Smith said "Uh-oh," which was the last crew comment recorded.
The aircraft crashed near Cape Canaveral (then Cape Kennedy) Florida, and exploded. All crew members evacuated. [58] On 4 October, a B-52H (tail number 60-0027) from the 5th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Minot AFB, North Dakota crashed on landing. On final approach at night, the engines on the left wing went out due to fuel mismanagement.
The spacecraft was recovered in 1999, having settled at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 300 nmi (560 km; 350 mi) southeast of Cape Canaveral at a depth of about 15,000 ft (4,600 m). An unexploded SOFAR bomb , designed for sound fixing and ranging in case the craft sank, had failed and had to be dealt with when it was recovered from the ...
A reader captured this photo of a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral streaking through the sky on a morning drive between Northlake and Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8 ...
During a pre-launch test this morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was sitting on a launchpad ahead of a scheduled launch this Saturday to take an ...
An undisclosed space operation is planned today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — but neither SpaceX, NASA nor United Launch Alliance have scheduled any missions for liftoff.
Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) was the first attempt to launch a Mercury capsule and occurred on July 29, 1960 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was unmanned and carried no launch escape system . The Atlas rocket suffered a structural failure 58 seconds after launch at an altitude of approximately 30,000 feet (9.1 km) and 11,000 feet (3.4 km ...
The spectacular explosion of AC-5 in March 1965 left Pad 34A a mass of blackened rubble. The AC-5 flight (Atlas 156D) on 2 March 1965 at 13:25 GMT from Cape Kennedy in a highly elliptical orbit, with a payload (Surveyor SD-1) of 951 kg, was only intended to carry out a single burn of the Centaur C, and program officials felt confident. This ...