heart murmur a sound additional to the normal heart sounds, heard on auscultation of the heart. Many murmurs are of no significance (innocent, physiological murmurs), particularly in young children, or due to increased blood flow through the heart during exercise, or in pregnancy.
Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster. On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was returning from its 28th mission when, 16 minutes to touchdown, the shuttle incinerated and broke apart over Texas. Communication between the Columbia crew and Mission Control captures the last moments of the flight.
On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 EST. The disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed at liftoff. The O-ring was not desi