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Remembering the Challenger Disaster. On January 28, 1986, the tenth mission of the space shuttle Challenger ended in tragic disaster. We remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives that day, including Christa McAuliffe, who was chosen by NASA to pioneer its Teacher in Space program.
When space travel goes wrong â Three Soviet cosmonauts were found dead in their Soyuz 11 spacecraft after an apparently normal landing in June 1971. When space travel goes wrong â Seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger were killed in January 1986 when the spacecraft exploded shortly after takeoff.