Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Bay County’s Bangor Township remembered the event Thursday with a special morning announcement, classroom lessons and a moment of silence.
Advertisement
“It’s of paramount importance that we learn from the past to help us understand the risks of today and tomorrow”, said JSC director Ellen Ochoa to a crowd of Johnson Space Center employees and family members of the Challenger astronauts.
Also present was Christa McAuliffe’s son, Scott.
NASA has posted an excellent page of Challenger resources, ranging from mission voice transcripts and crew biographies to the text of the Rogers Commission report and other critical post-flight analyses.
“If i could touch them the way she touched us a whole class of 1986 or anybody that had her, it would be an honor”, Hickey said. On this year’s Day of Remembrance, January 28, the space organisation focused on the astronauts who died on board the space shuttle Challenger exactly 30 years ago.
July 19, 1985 – New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe is chosen to be the first teacher in space. “Our thoughts and memories of Christa will always be fresh and comforting”. In 2007, Morgan paid the highest honor to her friend when she became the first teacher in space on the shuttle Endeavor.
“It’s not often that a teacher is at a loss for words, I know my students wouldn’t think so”, she said in July 1985, months before Challenger took off. Scott and his sister are now in their 30s.
“There had been 25 space flights with a shuttle and they’d all went well, but then, suddenly, this one went horribly wrong”, Garneau said. What resulted was mounting pressure from the ignited gas within the rocket motor, which affected the left SRB and structural failure 73 seconds into the flight, which resulted in the explosion, eventually killing all seven crew members. Gen. Richard Scobee, the children of Challenger commander Francis Scobee. Judith Resnik, Mission Spl. Gregory Jarvis, Mission Spl. “That’s what they really focus on with the kids”. You can find her every school day not only teaching but striving to inspire her students to live their dreams, just like McAuliffe did for her.
Seven astronauts were killed on February 1, 2003, when the shuttle Columbia disintegrated above the United States as it returned to Earth.
Linda Preston, 61, also retired as a teacher, choked up as the names of the Challenger dead were read during the memorial service. Both his children are now in their 50s. The policy shift laid the groundwork for today’s commercial space transportation industry, which generated global revenues of $5.9 billion in 2014, according to a report previous year by the Satellite Industry Association. “It’s in the history books”, Rodgers said.
Advertisement
She told of Dick Scobee’s modesty.
