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After consulting with an outside expert and completing a second dive in May 2022, the TV film crew presented the evidence to former NASA astronaut Bruce Melnick, who suspected it was a piece of the Challenger.
Instead of World War II-era plane debris, the team discovered a modern-looking aviation structure.
Navy torpedo bombers on a mission code-named Flight 19 that had also disappeared earlier that day. The divers were initially looking for the wreck of a PBM Martin Mariner rescue plane that disappeared without a trace on Dec.
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Rather, in March 2022, the team embarked on a series of scout dives to investigate several suspected wreck targets off the coast of Florida, with one of those targets being outside of the Bermuda Triangle, offshore from Cape Canaveral. The History Channel film crew did not set out to find a piece of Challenger. But I am rather confident that it is one of the largest pieces ever found of Challenger,” Mike Cianelli, program manager of NASA’s Apollo, Challenger and Columbia Lessons Learned Program, said in a video statement released by NASA. However, we did note that the item does extend deeper into the sand, so the true size is hard to determine at this point. “In reviewing the footage that the team provided, we can see a section roughly 15 by 15 feet. The History Channel’s find is the first major discovery of wreckage from the STS-51L disaster in more than 25 years. In 2015, for the first and only time to date, NASA placed a large section of space shuttle Challenger’s fuselage on public display as part of “Forever Remembered," a permanent memorial to the nation’s fallen shuttle crews at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The silos were not considered burial sites or a memorial for Challenger, but rather a storage site, and in the years since, as additional pieces have washed up on shore, they have been added to the archive. The debris represented 47% of the orbiter Challenger, 33% of the external tank, 50% of the two solid rocket boosters and between 40% and 95% of the mission’s three primary payloads (an inertial upper stage, a tracking and data relay satellite and an astronomical tool to observe Halley’s Comet).Īfter being analyzed to learn what caused the failure, the wreckage was placed into two silos-Complex 31 and 32 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (now Space Force Station)-each 78 feet deep by 12 feet in diameter (24 by 4 m), which had previously supported Minuteman missiles up until 1970. The operation involved thousands of people, 16 surface vessels, a nuclear-powered research submarine and several robotic and crewed submersibles systematically inspecting more than 486 square nautical miles (1,666 square kilometers) of ocean floor in depths ranging from 10 to over 1,200 feet (3 to 365 meters).Īfter seven months, 167 pieces of the shuttle, weighing a total of 118 tons, were recovered. NASA’s STS-51L crew, including commander Francis “Dick” Scobee, pilot Mike Smith, mission specialists Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka and Judy Resnik, payload specialist Greg Jarvis and Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe were killed in the aftermath of the malfunction.Ī major search and salvage effort was organized in the wake of the tragedy, the largest ever conducted by the U.S. The space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its 25th launch after seals in one of the vehicle’s two solid rocket boosters failed.
28, 1986, still feels like yesterday.” The search for Challenger For millions around the globe, myself included, Jan. "While it has been nearly 37 years since seven daring and brave explorers lost their lives aboard Challenger, this tragedy will forever be seared in the collective memory of our country. “This discovery gives us an opportunity to pause once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a statement issued on Thursday (Nov. The segment of Challenger was found in waters off Florida’s Space Coast, well northwest of the area popularly known as the Bermuda Triangle. The artifact, which today remains where it was found by the crew filming The History Channel’s new series “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” was positively identified by NASA based upon the item’s modern construction and presence of 8-inch (20 centimeters) square thermal protection (heat shield) tiles. One the largest pieces of NASA’s fallen space shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II aircraft.
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