On January 28, 1986, the world watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, due to a failure in a solid rocket booster joint. There are many conspiracies surrounding this event and one of the biggest is that no one died in the explosion and all of the crew are still alive. What are your thoughts? DM me for video credit. No copyright infringement intended. For entertainment

35 YEARS LATER: On this day in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. The Challenger broke apart at 11:39 a.m., falling into the Atlantic Ocean. Investigators would later discover the disaster was caused by the failure of an “O ring” seal in one of the two solid-fuel rockets. As a result of the horrific accident, NASA did not send astronauts into space for more than two years as it redesigned a number of space shuttle features for improv

Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch. Today we remember seven crew members whose lives were taken during the disaster. | WESH 2 News

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. | AARP Arizona