Can you hear a fart in space?

For one, as astronomer and Slate’s expert on all things space Phil Plait jokes, there’s no air on the moon, and air is necessary for sound waves to travel, so the monster technically wouldn’t have been able to hear the fart. …

Did Sally Ride Die in Challenger?

Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987….

Did the Challenger families get money?

These four spouses and six children shared in cash and annuities that cost $7,735,000. The government paid 40 percent; Thiokol, 60 percent. They had relied on informal advice from the law partner of McAuliffe’s husband, Steven, and they talked only with the government, never directly with the company.

How did Challenger astronauts die?

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal incident in the United States’ space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. Aerodynamic forces broke up the orbiter.

Could the Challenger disaster have been prevented?

That’s all it would have taken to prevent the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. But no one made it on that bright, cold day years ago. The result was catastrophic. Many months of investigation later, though, it became clear that one phone call could have prevented the accident.

Were the bodies of the Columbia crew recovered?

NASA yesterday named a retired Navy admiral to lead an independent investigation into the incident, which took the lives of all seven crew members on board. The remains of all seven astronauts who were killed in the space shuttle Columbia tragedy have been recovered, US officials said last night.

Who was aboard the Challenger when it exploded?

In the immediate aftermath, seven astronauts died — including the first teacher in space (Christa McAuliffe), the second African-American in space (Ronald McNair), the second female NASA astronaut in space (Judith Resnik), the first Asian-American astronaut (Ellison Onizuka), Hughes Aircraft payload specialist Gregory …

Why did the Challenger disaster happen?

The space shuttle broke apart because gasses in the external fuel tank mixed, exploded and tore the space shuttle apart. The external fuel tank exploded after the right solid rocket booster came loose and ruptured the tank. Because a seal around the O-ring (a piece of the rocket boosters) failed.