Rendez-vous Houston is remembered Know for being the concert which celebrated Social_event the astronauts of the Space Shuttle `` Challenger '' disaster , which had happened only two and a half months earlier .

The idea was that McNair , on his next trip into space in the `` Challenger '' Space Shuttle , would perform Hold ( and record Recording onto video ) the new piece of music , which would then be projected Arranging ( through video playback ) onto a giant screen that was to be constructed Building on the front of one of the buildings .

On that same day , an appalled Change_sentiment world witnessed a historic tragedy - the `` Challenger '' Space Shuttle disintegrated in mid-air while on its ascent into space .

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 .