Français : La navette spatiale Atlantis commence sa mission avec son équipe de six membres et se dirige vers la station spatiale internationale. The SLS, now standing at 322 feet (98 meters) taller than the Statue of Liberty but still smaller than the Saturn V and weighing 5.75 million pounds (2.6 million kg) was rolled out to the. Some 60-seconds into the launch, as the elegant spacecraft soared nine miles into the deep blue sky above Cape Canaveral, it turned into a ferocious fireball as a bolt on the main fuel tank exploded, detonating an eruption with the power of what was described by Nasa scientists as a ‘small nuclear weapon.’įor a lingering moment there was stunned silence across the country from the Concord, New Hampshire, school – where some 1,200 people had gathered to watch the launch on a giant television screen – to the VIP viewing room at the Cape where Christa McAuliffe’s six and nine-year-old children were watching with her husband, Steve. English: Space Shuttle Atlantis begins the STS-132 mission as it carries the six-member crew toward the International Space Station. But in a televised address to the American people, President Reagan stressed that the space programme would go ahead.Ī spellbound nation watched with high expectations as Challenger lifted cleanly off the launch pad at 11.38am, trailing the normal blazing geyser of fire behind it. The video reveals the astonishing complexity and resources required to launch a payload into space, including the more than 1,000 gallons of liquid propellant and 20,000 pounds of solid fuel burned. Nasa said last night that it had suspended operations of the shuttle indefinitely, pending the findings of a board of inquiry.
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