STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff from KSC LC-39B when a right SRB O-ring failed, killing all seven crew and destroying TDRS-B and Spartan-Halley.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 25th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 28 January 1986, 16:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- Launches in 1986
- 10th of 110