Challenger itself was replaced by the, which first launched in May 1992 and was constructed from structural spares that had been ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.

Even when the orbiters Discovery and Atlantis joined the fleet, Challenger remained in heavy use with three missions a year from 1983 to 1985.

Challenger, along with Discovery, was modified at Kennedy Space Center to be able to carry the Centaur-G upper stage in its payload bay.

In 1984, Discovery became the third operational orbiter following Columbia and Challenger, and made its final touchdown at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011 at 10: 57: 17 CST, having spent a cumulative total of one full year ( 365 days ) in space.

Discovery had been twice chosen as the " Return To Flight " Orbiter, first in 1988 after the 1986 Challenger disaster, and then for the twin " Return To Flight " missions in July 2005 and July 2006 after the 2003 Columbia disaster.

* September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

The first Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

Challenger ( OV-099 ) was delivered to KSC in July 1982, Discovery ( OV-103 ) in November 1983, and Atlantis ( OV-104 ) in April 1985.

Due to the loss of Challenger, the launch of Ulysses was delayed until October 6, 1990 aboard Discovery ( mission STS-41 ).

The first Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

There are four middle / junior high schools: Inglewood Junior High, Beaver Lake Middle School, Pine Lake Middle School, and Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, as well as nearly a dozen elementary schools such as Discovery, Sunny Hills, Cascade Ridge, Challenger, Creekside, Margaret Mead, Samantha Smith, Rachel Carson, Christa McAuliffe, and Elizabeth Blackwell.

was a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, where he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L.

Challenger had been scheduled for this flight, but Discovery was substituted when problems were encountered with Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s thermal protection tiles.

Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 11: 37 am EDT on 29 September 1988, 975 days after the Challenger disaster.

Hauck was spacecraft commander of Discovery on STS-26, the first flight to be flown after the Challenger accident.

* On this mission, Story Musgrave became the only person to fly on all five Space Shuttles – Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, and Columbia.

STS-26 Discovery, the first mission to be flown after the Challenger accident, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988.

STS-26 Discovery, the first flight to be flown after the Challenger accident, launched from the Kennedy Space Center on September 29, 1988.

Arms have been installed on the four other shuttles-it was first flown on board Challenger during STS-7 in 1983, and then in 1984 on Discovery during STS-41-D, which was Discovery's first flight.

They are now known as Discovery, Challenger, Endeavour and Voyager to reflect the school's status as a specialist science college.

Then they schedule their launches using the two space shuttles available ( Atlantis and Discovery, though the initial release used Challenger ), and have their budget approved.

Initially, this mission was to be flown in August 1986 as STS-61-J using Atlantis, but was postponed due to the Challenger disaster.

The EC series had 3 models named Atlantis, the " Challenger " or " Spitfire ".

Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.

Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger, which was destroyed 73 seconds after its launch on January 28, 1986.

The United States Congress authorized the construction of Endeavour in 1987 to replace Challenger, which was lost in the STS-51-L launch accident in 1986.

The Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger when it was lost in January 1986.

Endeavour ( OV-105 ) was built to replace Challenger ( using structural spare parts originally intended for the other orbiters ) and delivered in May 1991 ; it was first launched a year later.

The Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger, which was lost in January 1986.

Barbara Morgan, McAuliffe's backup, became a professional astronaut in January 1998 and flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-118, to the International Space Station, on August 8, 2007, aboard Endeavour, the orbiter that replaced Challenger.

After the accident, NASA attempted to aim at a more realistic shuttle flight rate: it added another orbiter, Endeavour, to the space shuttle fleet to replace Challenger, and it worked with the Department of Defense to put more satellites in orbit using expendable launch vehicles rather than the shuttle.

The six houses are named Challenger ( purple ), Churchill ( yellow ), Endeavour ( red ), Hurricane ( green ), Invincible, ( blue ), and Spitfire ( white ).

In 1983 and 1984, Challenger flew on 85 % of all Space Shuttle missions.

* March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger ; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

Over half of all living vertebrate species ( about 32, 000 species ) are fishes ( non-tetrapod craniates ), a diverse set of lineages that inhabit all the world's aquatic ecosystems, from snow minnows ( Cypriniformes ) in Himalayan lakes at elevations over 4, 600 metres ( 15, 000 feet ) to flatfishes ( order Pleuronectiformes ) in the Challenger Deep, the deepest ocean trench at about 11, 000 metres ( 36, 000 feet ).

Challenger was destroyed during ascent due to O-Ring failure on the right solid rocket booster ( SRB ) on January 28, 1986, with the loss of all seven astronauts on board.

Seventeen years after the Challenger accident, Columbia broke up on reentry, killing all seven crew members, on February 1, 2003, and it was not replaced.

Polychaetes occur throughout the Earth's oceans at all depths, from forms that live as plankton near the surface, to a 2 – 3 cm specimen ( still unclassified ) observed by the robot ocean probe Nereus at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the Earth's oceans.

On January 28, 1986, McAuliffe boarded Space Shuttle Challenger with the other six crew members of STS-51-L. Just 72 seconds into its flight at an altitude of 48, 000 feet, Challenger broke apart, leading to the deaths of all seven crew members.

On July 23, 2004, McAuliffe and all the other 13 astronauts lost in both the Challenger and Columbia disasters were posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush.

SLC-6 was still being prepared for its first Shuttle launch, mission STS-62-A targeted for October 15, 1986, when the Challenger disaster grounded the Shuttle fleet and set in motion a chain of events that finally led to the decision to cancel all West Coast shuttle launches.

In May 2007, the Ministry of Defence's Future Systems Group invited BAE to tender for the Challenger 2 Capability Sustainment Program ( C2 CSP ), which combined all upgrades into one programme.

The remains of all seven astronauts from the Challenger disaster were discovered in the crew decks on the ocean floor.

Smith was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004, along with all astronauts lost in the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

* 1986-Space Shuttle Challenger accident, killing all seven aboard ( inclduing school teacher Christa McAuliffe ) and grounding the nation's space program for 2½ years.

For the 2003 event, Team New Zealand as the holder of the America's Cup, in consultation with Prada, the Challenger of Record, removed the nationality rule that stipulated that all of the crew members must be nationals of the challenging syndicate.

Membership entitles all patrons to access to Challenger Institute of Technology, university and public library resources at Rockingham.

Dokic was set to return to tournament play at the ITF Challenger tour in September, but was forced to cancel all commitments due to continuing problems with her right wrist.

Almost exactly a year after STS-51-C, Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed with all hands on board during the STS-51-L mission including Ellison Onizuka, a crew member on both flights.

STS-61-A marked the final successful mission of Space Shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed with all hands on board during the launch of the STS-51-L mission on 28 January 1986.

During this period Leblanc also produced two solo LPs: the highly inventive Major Malfunction ( 1986 ) ( inspired by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ) and Stranger than Fiction ( 1989 ), which although credited to Leblanc, featured all the rest of members of Tackhead.

Walker was in training to command STS-61-G, scheduled for a May 1986 launch when the Challenger disaster forced NASA to suspend all Shuttle flights.

The first tank with a smoothbore gun was the Soviet T-62, introduced into service in 1961 ; today all main battle tanks except the British Challenger 2 and Indian Arjun MBT use smoothbore guns.