Collectibles
Commemorative Belt Buckle
- Item Number
- 200
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 19 USD to nursenice
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Belt buckle honoring the astronauts that died 1/28/1986 when the Challenger crashed killing all seven aboard. Buckle is new ( no box) and has never been used.
Its maiden flight, STS-6, began on April 4, 1983. The orbiter was launched and landed nine times before disintegrating 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members including a civilian school teacher.
Challenger was the first of two orbiters that were destroyed in flight, followed by Columbia in 2003. The Challenger accident led to a two-and-a-half-year grounding of the shuttle fleet; flights resumed in 1988, with STS-26 flown by Discovery. Challenger was replaced by Endeavour, which was built from structural spares ordered by NASA in the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.
This mission attracted huge media attention, as one of the crew was a civilian schoolteacher - Christa McAuliffe, who was assigned to carry out live lessons from the orbiter (as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project). Other members would deploy a TDRS satellite and conduct comet observations.
Challenger blasted off at 11:38 am EST on January 28, 1986. Just over a minute into the flight, the faulty booster joint opened up, leading to a flame that melted securing struts which resulted in a catastrophic structural failure and explosion of the External Tank. The resulting pressure waves and aerodynamic forces destroyed the orbiter, resulting in the loss of all the crew.
Challenger was the first Space Shuttle to be destroyed in a mission accident.
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