The Challenger blew up as it was leaving Earth. It blew up due to a failure that caused hot gas to hit the fuel tank. Something called an O ring failed which caused a joint to become unsealed. Hot gas leaked out of the joint into the external fuel tank, causing it to explode. The main thing that caused this was the extremely low temperature. The cold caused the O ring to fail. NASA had to raise the minimum temperature for launch because of it. After the disaster, NASA grounded the space shuttle project for three years.
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