The Challenger returned from Shanghai with " the most valuable cargo of tea and silk ever to be laden in one bottom ".

Oberth returned to the United States to view the launch of 61A, the space shuttle Challenger launched October 30, 1985.

Challenger returned to Earth on 9 April 1983 at 10: 53 am PST, landing on Runway 22 at Edwards AFB.

Challenger was returned to KSC on 29 June.

In September 2009, Garlits returned to the quarter mile, racing a specially prepared 2009 Dodge Challenger in the stock eliminator class at the U. S. Nationals in Indianapolis, IN.

Challenger was returned to KSC on 18 April 1984.

In 2004, six years after claiming the World No. 1 ranking, and after a long absence from the tour, Ríos returned to competition with a 6 – 0, 6 – 0 victory at a Challenger Series tournament in Ecuador.

His space flight experience include STS-41-G Challenger ( October 5 – 13, 1984 ) was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

rightThree weeks after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Truly returned to NASA to became NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight on February 20, 1986.

STS-41-B Challenger ( February 3 – 11, 1984 ) was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land there 8 days later.

STS-41C Challenger ( April 6 – 13, 1984 ) was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Five Alpine White Dodge Challenger R / Ts were lent to the production by Chrysler for promotional consideration and were returned upon completion of filming.

Kartik returned to India and took seven wickets at 35. 42 at an economy rate of 4. 69 in the zonal one-dayers and Challenger Trophy, and then played four first-class matches to end the season, taking 10 wickets at 19. 10.

Mantilla returned to tennis in the 2007 Monza Challenger and qualified for the main draw winning his 3 qualification matches.

However, he returned to the court for the first time in just over two years when he competed as a wildcard in a qualifier at the 2012 Comerica Bank Challenger in Aptos, California.

On June 6, 2007 Puerta returned to the professional circuit with a 6 – 4 6 – 3 victory over Australian Joseph Sirianni at the Sassuolo Challenger, a tournament to which he was invited as a wild card since he had no ranking.

Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Christa McAuliffe ( September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 6 August 1985, at 12: 45: 26 pm PDT.

He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was cancelled after the Challenger Disaster in January 1986.

While similar lifeforms have been known to exist in shallower ocean trenches (> 7, 000 m ) and on the abyssal plain, the lifeforms discovered in the Challenger Deep possibly represent taxa distinct from those in shallower ecosystems.

* The first untethered spacewalk was made by American Bruce McCandless II on February 7, 1984, during Challenger mission STS-41-B, utilizing the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

After the Challenger accident, a study considered additional shielding and eventually rejected it, in part because such a design significantly increased the overall risk of mission failure and only shifted the other risks around ( for example, if a failure on orbit had occurred, additional shielding would have significantly increased the consequences of a ground impact ).

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was caused by rubber O-rings that were being used well below their glass transition temperature on an unusually cold Florida morning, and thus could not flex adequately to form proper seals between sections of the two solid-fuel rocket boosters.

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

The Apollo 17 lunar module that landed on the Moon in 1972 was also named Challenger.

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

Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour all, until 1998, bore markings consisting of the letters " USA " afore an American flag on the left wing, and the pre-1998 NASA " worm " logo afore the respective orbiter's name on the right wing.

( Enterprise, the test vehicle which was the prototype for Columbia, originally had the same wing markings as Columbia but with the letters " USA " on the right wing spaced closer together ; Enterprises markings were modified to match Challenger in 1983.

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.

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.

** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.

* June 9 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

* December 21 – HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4-year scientific expedition that lays the foundation for the science of oceanography.

On January 28, 1986, he planned to give his address, but after learning of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, he postponed it for a week and addressed the nation on the day's events.

The failing rubber o-ring seals that contributed to the cause of the Challenger disaster were thought to have cooled below their critical temperature ; the disaster happened on an unusually cold day.

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.

On 24 March 1995, the Japanese robotic deep-sea probe Kaikō broke the depth record for unmanned probes when it reached close to the surveyed bottom of the Challenger Deep.

Gregory Bruce Jarvis ( August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.

* August 24 – A Canadair Challenger 601 business jet arrives at London, England, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, setting a world non-syop distance record for a business jet of.

Lodewijk van den Berg ( born March 24, 1932 ) is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.

The 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger had set the system ’ s construction back by 24 months.

PSA Challenger 15 $ 15, 000-$ 24, 999

* 24 September: A flotilla of 100 boats meets the Interisland ferry Challenger ( Kaitaki ) protesting the speed it travels through the Marlborough Sounds.