Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1986
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Shuttle
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suspended until NASA had determined what caused the tragedy.
It was the 25th shuttle launch and the 10th for the workhorse Challenger. It turned into the first inflight disaster for the nation's space program. It also came exactly 19 years and a day from the night Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a fire aboard the first Apollo moonship on the launch pad here. The Soviet
space program is known to have lost four cosmonauts.
Cries of horror went up at viewing sites along the coast when the shuttle exploded at 10:39 a.m., spewing burning pieces like a massive fireworks display. A shocked nation watched the replays moments later on television.
McAuliffe's husband Steven, and two children Caroline, 6; and Scott, 9; watched the disaster that claimed
Her parents, Edward and Grace Corrigan, were watching from a VIP area three miles from launch pad 39B when the tragedy struck. Cheers turned to shrieks of horror in the crowd and the Corrigans clutched each other in tears.
the teacher's life but were hustled away immediately by NASA officials.
In classrooms and the auditorium at McAuliffe's school in Concord,
The space shuttles were the first manned spaceships launched without an emergency escape system. Only the original shuttle, Columbia, had ejection seats and then only for its first four test flights.
students watched in silent disbelief.
NASA said the launch appeared entirely normal until one minute and 12 seconds after launch. At that point, at a speed of 1,977 mph, three times the speed of sound, the shuttle was 10.4
Mission control in Houston sent the routine order: "Challenger, go at throttle-up," which is the command to throw on full power.
miles up and 8 miles offshore.
Sebee increased power to the main engines as planned and his final words were "Challenger. Go at throttle-up."
The ship was suddenly enveloped in a ball of fire.
Rescue efforts were launched instantly, and television commentators excitedly showed their viewers a parachute floating down to the ocean. But it was apparently part of one of Challenger's solid rocket boosters.
The booster rockets develop their 2.6 million pounds of thrust by burning a solid propellant that resembles the rubber eraser on a pencil. Once ignited, they cannot be shut down except by firing plastic explosives that are wired to each rocket.
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1961 until June 1984 to train engineers and health physicists. Radioisotopes, used in some research laboratories, also were manufactured.
Robin Eversole, University Relations director, said the reactor was shut down in 1984 because it no longer
The reactor never produced any radioactive wastes, Rosson said.
served a useful purpose.
"We don't offer a program in radio-biophysics anymore," she said. "We had little need for that program."
And radioisotopes are no longer in demand, Eversole said.
"This is the first step in the process of returning the
site to the way it was before it was ever a reactor," she said. "That's a process called decommissioning. Right now we're just dismantling it by removing the fuel."
The process of decommissioning involves the removal of the storage tank, the 8-foot concrete shield and the 6.000 gallons of water in the reactor.
Eversole said before decommissioning could begin,
the fuel first had to be removed.
When the reactor is decommissioned, Eversole said,
the building will be suitable for several purposes.
Prior information about the transfer of fuel from the reactor was kept confidential in accordance with guidelines set up by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, she said.
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