Main idea
This article is in the nature of
reportage, written by a newspaper
reporter of UPI who witnessed the
disastrous launch of the space shuttle challenger. It was 25th shuttle launch in USA. It was originally scheduled for 9:38 a.m., Jan.28, 1986 at Kennedy Space Center, but the cold weather delayed fueling and launch for two hours. At 11:38 a.m., the spacecraft was launched and exploded about two minutes later, killing all the members of the crew. The following research showed that the cause of this disaster was fuel release from one of the boosters.