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View of the audience at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L. Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud of...
Overall view of the audience at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L.
Overall view of the news media at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L.
Family and friends of the STS 51-L crew prepare to be seated at the Memorial service at JSC. In the center of the...
51L-S-108 (31 Jan. 1986) --- Barbara R. Morgan, 51-L backup payload specialist to Christa McAuliffe, with others on...
S86-26428 (31 Jan. 1986) --- Dozens of cameras and thousands of eyes focus on President Ronald Reagan (out of frame...
Overall view of the audience at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L.
51L-10147 (28 Jan. 1986) --- View of ice on the 51-L launch complex. Photo credit: NASA
S86-25279 (November 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L payload specialist, has homework of her own to do as...
S85-37677 (8-12 July 1985) --- Sharon C. (Christa) McAuliffe of Concord High, Concord, New Hampshire, talks to nurse...
Sharon Christa McAuliffe, 51-L payload specialist representing the Teacher in Space project, jumps down onto a...
S85-41451 (3 Oct. 1985) --- Barbara Morgan, backup to the Teacher-in-Space participant Christa McAuliffe, prepares...
S86-38989 (28 Jan. 1986) --- Main engine exhaust, solid rocket booster plume and an expanding ball of gas from the...
51L-S-127 (31 Jan. 1986) --- A wide angle lens was used to capture only a portion of the crowd gathered for memorial...
S86-25199 (September 1985) --- Three members of the STS-51L prime crew and a backup crew member walk away from the...
S86-25254 (January 1986) --- Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress...
S86-26436 (31 Jan. 1986) --- The United States flag, in front of the Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) project management...
S85-39943 (9 Sept. 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L citizen observer/payload specialist representing the...
S86-25186 (December 1985) --- Five members of the prime crew for NASA?s STS-51L mission and a backup crew member are...
S86-30088 (March 1986) --- Salvage operations offshore of Kennedy Space Center, are depicted in this artist’s...
S86-30336 (4 April 1986) --- Larue Forbes of CSC retrieves one of the MADS tapes for inputting into a nearby...
S85-44459 (19 Nov. 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, seated behind 51-L pilot Michael J. Smith, prepares to strap...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-51-L: Challenger
S85-44253 (November 1985) --- Five astronauts and two payload specialists make up the crew, scheduled to fly aboard...