In 1985 , Jarre was contacted Communication by the musical director of the Houston Grand Opera with the proposal for him related to the celebrations of Texas ' 150th birthday in 1986 , 150th birthday of the city of Houston and NASA 's 25th birthday .

Because of NASA 's involvement Participation , Jarre got Getting the chance to keep in contact with a friend of his , astronaut captain Bruce McCandless II who later introduced Statement Jarre to a flight companion of his , astronaut and jazz musician Ron McNair .

However , astronauts from NASA ( including Bruce McCandless ) telephoned Communication Jarre .

On January 28 , 1986 , the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter undertaking mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of ( OV-99 ) broke apart Destroying 73 seconds into its flight , killing Killing all seven crew members : five NASA astronauts , one payload specialist , and a civilian school teacher .

On January 28 , 1986 , the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter undertaking mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of ( OV-99 ) broke apart Destroying 73 seconds into its flight , killing Killing all seven crew members : five NASA astronauts , one payload specialist , and a civilian school teacher .

NASA managers had known Know since 1977 that contractor Morton-Thiokol 's design Create_artwork of the SRBs contained Containing a potentially catastrophic flaw in the O-rings , but they had failed Earnings_and_losses to address this problem properly .

NASA managers also disregarded Response warnings Warning from engineers about the dangers of launching Process_start posed Causation by the low temperatures of that morning , and failed to adequately report Reporting these technical concerns to their superiors .

Initially , the US authorities acknowledged Statement the incident as the loss Earnings_and_losses of a civilian weather research aircraft operated by NASA , but were forced Causation to admit Reveal_secret the mission 's true purpose when a few days later the Soviet government produced Manufacturing the captured pilot and parts of the U-2 's surveillance equipment , including photographs of Soviet military bases taken Creating during the mission Scrutiny .

Three separate drilling rig teams , nearly every Chilean government ministry , the United States ' NASA space agency , and a dozen corporations from around the world cooperated Collaboration completing the rescue Rescuing .

On July 11 , NASA satellites revealed Reveal_secret Rammasun passing Motion_directional directly over Guam .