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In Memory of the Crew of STS-51L  --  Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis and Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Space Shuttle Challenger
Maximum dynamic pressure, or max Q, is the point when dynamic pressures on the space shuttle are greatest. It occurs about one minute after liftoff and at an altitude of 33,600 feet.

Burning propellants from the space shuttle's main engines reach a temperature of 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than the boiling point of iron.

Space shuttle cockpits are equipped with special "wicket tabs" to help astronauts feel and activate controls if their vision becomes temporarily blurred from acceleration or deceleration forces during launch or re-entry.

A shuttle pilot does not deploy the orbiter's landing gear until the spacecraft reaches an altitude of only 250 feet above ground level and a speed of less than 345 mph.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.  Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air, up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God.    --High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.--
STS-51L
January 28, 1986

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