Space Shuttle Challenger disaster can be heard in the soundtrack of Stage 2, several times. History Channel released a documentary titled "Days That Shaped America"; the first episode was about the disaster and it was aired on 28 January 2018. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of (OV-99) 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 (16:39 UTC). The disintegration of
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster crew of two. Less than a year after the accident, President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration, calling for the space shuttle fleet to complete the ISS, with retirement by the year 2010 following the completion of the ISS, to be replaced by a newly developed Crew Exploration Vehicle for travel to the Moon and Mars. NASA planned to return the space shuttle to service around September 2004; that date was pushed back to July 2005. On July 26, 2005, at 10:39 am EST, Space Shuttle "Discovery" cleared the tower on the "Return to Flight" mission STS-114, marking the