The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in the shuttle program and the formation of the Rogers Commission, a special commission appointed by President Ronald Reagan to investigate the accident. The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and rescue operation. The shuttle was destroyed and all seven crew members were killed, probably when the crew compartment hit the surface of the ocean. Within seconds, the flame caused structural failure of the external tank, and the orbiter broke up abruptly due to aerodynamic forces. The seal failure caused a flame leak from the solid rocket booster that impinged upon the adjacent external propellant tank.
EST on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a space disaster that occurred at 11:39 a.m. The accident caused the death of all seven members of the STS-51-L mission. The iconic image of Space Shuttle Challenger's smoke plume after its breakup 73 seconds after launch.
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