STS-51-L was the 25th flight of the American Space Shuttle program, and the tenth mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted-off from Launch Complex 39-B, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on January 28, 1986. The mission finished in cataclysmic disappointment with the demolition of Challenger, beginning at 73 seconds after lift-off, and the passing of each of the seven group individuals. The Rogers Commission verified that the reason for the decimation was because of the disappointment of an O-ring seal on the starboard Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). This flight denoted the first run through a non-government non military personnel, teacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown on board the Space
