Name: Space Shuttle Challenger
SKU: BR-10810
Availability: InStock

Space Shuttle Challenger

Note: We can build this up to a large scale you want!

Mahogany Desk stand in chrome steel pedestal with adjustable height included.

Production approximately 3-4 weeks from date of order confirmation

Space Shuttle Challenger (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA’s Space Shuttle program to be put into service, after Columbia. Challenger was built by Rockwell International‘s Space Transportation Systems Division, in Downey, California. Its maiden flight, STS-6, began on April 4, 1983. The orbiter was launched and landed nine times before breaking apart 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members including a civilian school teacher.
Challenger was the first of two orbiters that were destroyed in flight, the other being Columbia in 2003. The accident led to a two-and-a-half-year grounding of the shuttle fleet; flights resumed in 1988, with STS-26 flown by Discovery. Challenger was replaced by Endeavour, which was built from structural spares ordered by NASA in the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis. (Info from Wikipedia)