CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Dozens of educators who competed alongside Christa McAuliffe to become the first teacher in space gathered Thursday to remember the seven astronauts who perished aboard Challenger 30 years ago.
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A billboard outside a Concord, N.H. motel in January 1986 in honor of Concord High teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. But her dreams – and those of NASA – were tragically cut short when the Challenger exploded just after liftoff in front of a live television audience.
“Ever since I can remember, he always had a fascination with planes”, said Jim.
President Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address was already planned for later that day.
Tess Caswell, holds a doctorate at Brown University School of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and she’s an aspiring astronaut. She tweets @CaswellTess. “It’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery”.
177-a-14-(Barbara Morgan, teacher and a former NASA astronaut, during memorial service at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex)-“for the stars”-Barbara Morgan, Christa McAuliffe’s backup in the Teacher in Space program, says the Challenger crew believed their mission was worth the risk”. The disaster grounded NASA’s space shuttle program for almost three years.
Lead Flight Director Rebecca Dolman said there’s a message to take away from the Challenger disaster.
Since 1986, NASA has landed multiple rovers on Mars and discovered flowing water on the Red Planet.
Seven fearless astronauts are dead, but six are alive living today in space aboard a space station that can never be reproduced: the true legacy of the space shuttle.
To honour the crew, their families and friends came together to establish the Challenger Center.
Today, many people paused to reflect on the lives, hopes, and mission of the seven crew members on board the Challenger. He had also journeyed aboard the Challenger in 1984 as the mission’s payload specialist. They were going to use space to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers and astronauts.
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The Challenger disaster was seen by numerous citizens all across the country, besides the hundreds on the ground.
