View of the Flight Readiness Firing (FRF) of the Challengers engines
The Space shuttle orbiter Challenger is given a 20-second test firing of its new main engines on December 18, 1982 on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This test was the first time these engines ahd been tested in the clustered flight configuration.
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S83-25132
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January 5, 1983
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