Philadelphia Front Page News TV-Radio News In Brief: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 39 years ago today: why it still haunts the US Forward news by KYW Newsradio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
Above: The crew of the ill-fated Challenger. (Back, L-R) Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka, Teacher-in-Space participant Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist Greg Jarvis and mission specialist Judy Resnick. (Front, L-R) Pilot Mike Smith, commander Dick Scobee and mission specialist Ron McNair.
There’s no doubt that since the advent of television, certain events in American history have been burned into the nation's collective memory because of their mass availability, their tragic results, and the fact that they unfolded live right before our eyes.
If you were a school-aged kid on January 28, 1986, chances are you remember exactly where you were and what you felt that day.
It was supposed to be a revitalizing triumph for NASA to make people excited about space exploration again after over a decade of fading interest and diminishing publicity with each subsequent shuttle launch.
Among the seven astronauts slated for a trip to space about the Challenger space shuttle was a regular citizen, a schoolteacher named Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to lead a groundbreaking educational experiment and teach lessons from space.
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