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 .

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

They asked Request Jarre not to cancel Change_event_time , as now the concert `` must '' go ahead , and be held Defending in tribute to pay Commerce_pay respect to the astronauts who had lost Earnings_and_losses their lives in the disaster .

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 .