SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER - STS - 51L CREW - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: LT. COLONEL ELLISON S. "EL" ONIZUKA, GREG JARVIS, RONALD E. McNAIR, LT. COLONEL DICK (FRANCIS R.) SCOBEE, CHRISTA McAULIFFE, JUDITH A. "JUDY" RESNIK, CAPTAIN MICHAEL J. SMITH - HFSID 354659
Price: $13,950.00
CHALLENGER STS-51L: FRANCIS R. "DICK" SCOBEE,
MICHAEL J. SMITH, RONALD E. "RON" McNAIR, ELLISON S.
"EL" ONIZUKA, JUDITH A. "JUDY" RESNIK, GREG JARVIS and
CHRISTA McAULIFFE
Official NASA photograph of the crew of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L.
Challenger exploded in midair on January 28, 1986, making it the deadliest accident in
NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets. All seven people in this photo perished in the
Challenger disaster
Inscribed Photograph signed: "Dot - Best Wishes" (unknown hand),"El Onizuka", "S.
Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg Jarvis", "Judy/Resnik", "Mike Smith", "Dick/Scobee" and
"Ron McNair". Color, 10x8 overall, image 9¼x6¾ (one surface). NASA publicity photo with
NASA logo in upper left corner. Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/Mission 51-L. This
photograph is an official NASA crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers, including teacher
Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch.
The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space
Center. Accompanied by: A letter of provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew
signed this photo in quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch. The
space shuttle Challenger mission STS-51L, the craft's 10th flight, was launched on
January 28, 1986. Its explosion was the deadliest accident in NASA history until the
destruction of the Columbia during its February 1st, 2003 re-entry. The crew of seven
included Mission Commander FRANCIS "DICK" SCOBEE, a veteran of the Challenger's
41-C mission (April 6-13, 1984); Pilot MICHAEL J. SMITH, a former U.S. Navy test pilot
on his maiden shuttle voyage; and Mission Specialists RONALD E. "RON" McNAIR, who
had previously been aboard Challengermission 41-B (February 3-11, 1984); Colonel
ELLISON S. "EL" ONIZUKA, a former crew member on Discoverymission STS 51-C
(January 24-27, 1985); and JUDITH A. "JUDY" RESNIK, who had been aboard the
maiden flight of the orbiter Discovery(August 30-September 5, 1984). Also aboard were two
civilian Payload Specialists, GREG JARVIS of Hughes Co., who specialized in space
communications satellites; and SHARON CHRISTA McAULIFFE, the "teacher in space"
from Concord, New Hampshire, who was scheduled to teach a televised class to school
children across America. Seventy-three seconds into the flight, a crucial seal in the
rocket failed, causing the craft to explode in a ball of fire with the tragic loss of all
seven crewmembers. NASA postponed all space shuttle flights for over two years because of
this disaster and didn't resume them until the Sept. 29, 1988 Discovery mission of STS-26. Fine
condition. Accompanied by PSA/DNA LOA.
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