Nasa Challenger Space Shuttle

NASA wanted to create a lightweight space shuttle in the 1970’s, but they needed a test vehicle in those times, computer technology was not as good, and advanced like now so they had no way to see how the shuttle would react to heat, and stress according to Nasa’s website.The Challenger broke apart 73 seconds while in liftoff on January 28, 1986 which killed the 7 astronauts on board, and the reason for the incident was because of a booster failure.On April 4th, 1983, and saw the first spacewalk of the space shuttles program said NASA’s Challenger site & wikipedia.

The Challenger has undergone 9 successful missions, and the last 1 mission was unsuccessful which killed all of the astronauts. NASA has learned from some of the mistakes, Ronald