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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (114)	2/2/2003 1:17:39 PM
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Apollo 1 was on Jan. 27, 1967. Challenger was Jan. 28, 1986.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (114)	2/2/2003 4:05:27 PM
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Jan. 27, 1967 Apollo 1: a fire aboard the space capsule on the ground at Cape Kennedy, Fla., killed astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger Chaffee. Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle: exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. They were: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnick, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis, and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. A booster leak ignited the fuel, causing the explosion February 1, 2003 At 7:15 a.m. CST (1315 GMT) Columbia fired its braking rockets and began its descent from orbit. As the shuttle was traveling at 18 times the speed of sound at an altitude of 63,100 meters (207,000 feet), Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas lost communications about 8 a.m. CST (1400 GMT). Prior to loss of communications there were no indications of abnormal activity with the shuttle's return to Earth appearing normal. spaceflight.nasa.gov spaceflight.nasa.gov