Tag: Spacecraft

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28th January 1986: NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida

28th January 2023
Tagged as: America, Challenger, disaster, Explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Shuttle, Space, Spacecraft, United States, USA

At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half years.

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11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

11th July 2022
Tagged as: Cold War, Culture, France, Satellite, Science, Space, Space Race, Spacecraft, Technology, Television, USA

Telstar’s first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.