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collection:
nasa new
mediatype:
image
collection:
nasa
collection:
spaceshuttlegallery
title:
Challenger Tribute
description:
This is a printable version of space shuttle Challenger's orbiter tribute, or OV-099, which hangs in Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Challenger's accomplishments include the first night launch and first African-American in space, Guion Bluford, on STS-8, the first in-flight capture, repair and redeployment of an orbiting satellite during STS-41C, the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, on STS-7, and the first American woman to walk in space, Kathryn Sullivan, during STS-41G. Challenger is credited with blazing a trail for NASA's other orbiters with the first night landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on STS-8 and the first landing at Kennedy on STS-41B. The spacewalker in the tribute represents Challenger's role in the first spacewalk during STS-6 and the first untethered spacewalk on STS-41B. Crew-designed patches for each of Challenger's missions lead from Earth toward a remembrance of the STS-51L crew, which was lost 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986. Five orbiter tributes are on display in the firing room, representing Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Endeavour and Discovery. Graphic design credit: NASA/Lynda Brammer. NASA publication number: SP-2010-08-162-KSC
subject:
Where -- Edwards Air Force Base
subject:
What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter
subject:
What -- Earth
subject:
Where -- California
subject:
What -- Columbia
subject:
Where -- Florida
subject:
Where -- Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
subject:
What -- STS-51
subject:
What -- Challenger
subject:
Who -- Sally Ride
subject:
Who -- Guion Bluford
subject:
Who -- Kathryn Sullivan
subject:
What -- STS-41B
who:
Sally Ride
who:
Guion Bluford
who:
Kathryn Sullivan
what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
what:
Earth
what:
Columbia
what:
STS-51
what:
Challenger
what:
STS-41B
where:
Edwards Air Force Base
where:
California
where:
Florida
where:
Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
identifier:
483208main_2challeng er
uploader:
jake@archive.org
addeddate:
2011-05-23 22:17:53
publicdate:
2011-05-23 22:17:53
creator:
NASA
ImageUID:
file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 105/1/483208main_2ch allenger/483208main_ 2challenger_full.jpg
filename:
483208main_2challeng er_full.jpg
date:
2010-10-15
rights:
Public Domain
source:
year:
2010

Challenger Tribute