1986

Campaign Timeline

• The NASA space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after launch, killing all seven crewmembers aboard. It is the first tragedy in the space shuttle program and the worst disaster in the history of NASA to that date.

• Goddard Moonbase becomes self-sufficient (food-wise), once its agricultural and hydroponics sections begin operations.

• Construction begins on a second and more sophisticated international space station in Earth orbit. Space Station Freedom is intended to be self-sufficient and a launching point for manned missions to other parts of the Sol system.

• Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) begin surveying the Sol system’s inner asteroid belt using a fleet of automated probes, with an eye towards future mining operations.

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1985

20th century 1980s

1987