Space Shuttle Challenger Launch, June 18, 1983

The second launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger was on June 18, 1983. It was the seventh mission of the shuttle fleet and mission STS-7. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space took her first trip on this mission. In January of 1989, the Challenger launched and 72 seconds into the mission exploded, killing all aboard. These photograph were originally shot with a Nikon FTn with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor lens on Kodachrome slide film and copied to digital.