#Space shuttle challenger wreckage tv#

government, said Patti Bielling, news chief at NASA's John F. and what we all went through as a nation. When he saw the underwater video footage, 'My heart skipped a beat, I must say, and it brought me right back to 1986.

#Space shuttle challenger wreckage tv#

'Of course, the emotions come back, right' said Michael Ciannilli, a NASA manager who confirmed the remnant's authenticity. Nearly 37 years after the Challenger space shuttle’s tragic explosion killed all seven crew members on board, divers working for a TV documentary came across a piece of the wreckage off the coast of Florida. Space shuttle artifacts are property of the U.S. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center announced the discovery Thursday. Jaclyn Diaz Enlarge this image The Challenger liftoff NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration/NASA A documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of. The proximity of the object to the Florida Space Coast, a region around the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station where NASA launches its spaceflights, as well as the item's perceived modern construction, led the group to contact NASA. The exception is a left side shuttle panel on display at Kennedy Space Center's visitor complex, alongside the charred cockpit window frame from shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over Texas during reentry in 2003, killing seven astronauts. The short video shows two divers examining a large piece of debris covered with square tiles and embedded in sand. Most of the recovered wreckage remains buried in abandoned missile silos at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The History Channel posted footage of the dive on Twitter. NASA confirmed the findings in an announcement shared Thursday. 1, 2003, Columbia accident, NASA meticulously stored the 42 tons of debris in Kennedys iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and made them available for research. The accident occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and killed seven astronauts. While digging in the seabed, crew members from the History Channel discovered a piece of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger, the explosion of which resulted in the death of all seven astronauts onboard mere seconds after liftoff. (NASA) Nearly 37 years ago the world watched in stunned horror as an explosion destroyed the space shuttle Challenger. But after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, the grim, difficult. Remains of the space shuttle Challengers crew members have been found inside wreckage of the shuttles crew compartment 100 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, NASA officials. NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration/NASAĪ documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida for a World War II-era wreckage uncovered a very different historical artifact. WASHINGTON For decades, it was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that tested the frontiers of space.