Space Shuttle Challenger Timeline of Events

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Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California...

Timeline of Events

1983

4.4.1983

Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).

1984

2.3.1984

Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

10.5.1984

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.

10.11.1984

Aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

1985

10.30.1985

Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1986

1.28.1986

Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.