Which space exsplosion was more famous CHALLENGER OR COLUMBIA rewsna Challenger what teacher died on the Cha.?

Question

which one

Answer 1

challenger, cause it showed us that we were not invincible

Answer 2

I watched both of these disasters on the television as they were happening. Both were equally terrible and both deeply impacted the space program.

As to which was/is more famous, I'd have to say the Challenger explosion was. It was the first. There was a school teacher on board (Christa McAuliffe), so unprecedented numbers of school children were watching the takeoff. I believe this disaster ended the "Citizen in Space" program, causing a setback to the NASA dream in general. I'm remembering hearing that the Challenger Shuttle carried many space pioneers: the first Japanese American (Lieutenant Colonel Ellison Shoji Onizuka), the second African American (Dr. R.E. McNair), and a civilian (Payload Specialist, Christa McAuliffe). It also inspired a controversial movie: Challenger http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099237/

I'm thinking that the Columbia disaster was probably as significant but will not be as "famous." Scientists learned a lot from the Columbia disaster, mainly because it happened over dry ground and the story could, literally, be pieced together using the physical evidence, the recordings of flight communications, and the photographs that were taken during the Shuttle's reentry. With this information NASA could determine the likely cause of the break up and used that information to possibly prevent a similar event with the following Shuttle, the Discovery STS-114 Mission.

Answer 3

The Challenger disaster on Jan 28, 1986, claimed the life of Christa Mc Auliffe. The social studies teacher was from New Hampshire.

Answer 4

Challenger

Answer 5

The Space Shuttle Challenger is more famous to me. The name of the teacher was Christa McAuliffe.

Answer 6

I think the Challenger was more famous because so many children were watching teacher Christa McCaulif. But Columbbia was disturbing in a different way because we weren't sure at first if it was terrorism or an accident.

Answer 7

For me the Challenger Explosion comes to mind before the Columbia Explosion.

The teachers name was Christa McAuliffe.

Answer 8

CHALLENGER was more famous because it exploded on takeoff and the high school teacher was Christa McCallufe from Concord, New Hampshire.

The COLUMBIA is the most recent debacle from NASA - and that may be more fresh in the public's memory

Answer 9

I would say the challenger, by the time the columbia exploded most people knew eventually it would happen, but the first one was a shocker. And the Teacher's name was Christa Mccullough.

Answer 10

The Astronaut replicate Memorial at Kennedy area midsection lists all people who died on an identical time as serving interior the area software. to boot to the astronauts who died on Challenger and Columbia, there became an X-15 pilot who died throughout a crash landing. The X-15 pilots have been presented astronaut wings in view that their crafts exceeded the U. S. definition of area at +50 miles. the persons listed on the memorial are people who died in training flights, a launch pad twist of destiny (Apollo a million), or maybe one commercial flight (became traveling on NASA organisation and became traning for a return and forth flight).

Answer 11

The Challenger disaster was perhaps the most famous. Ms Mcauliffe, a schoolteacher, died in this disaster on takeoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida.