challenger

     

Challenger may refer to:

Trivia about challenger

  • Video tape of this space shuttle's destruction aired repeatedly on January 28, 1986
  • In January 1996 special ceremonies marked the 10-year anniversary of the explosion of this space shuttle
  • The memorial to the crew of this space shuttle is inscribed with a quotation from the poem "High Flight"
  • On Dec. 17, 1996 a 14-foot piece & a 5-foot piece of this space shuttle washed ashore at Cocoa Beach, Florida
  • The boxer who fights the champ for the title
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) This memorial is dedicated to the crew of this craft, who, as Reagan said, "slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God"
  • Sadly Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American in space, was on this 1986 shuttle flight
  • Dale Gardner made his first space flight on this shuttle in 1983; he quit the program after it exploded in 1986