Many of these people have never met, but they are linked by that day-bound by horror and loss as well as by endurance and hope. Our interviews uncovered new details about not only the catastrophe but also the investigation that followed. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the tragedy, Popular Mechanics found and interviewed more than two dozen people who were closely involved in the launch and its aftermath. But the sacrifice of the seven astronauts who perished that day should never be forgotten. Seventy-three seconds later, it broke apart in long, grotesque fingers of white smoke in the sky above Cape Canaveral, Florida. On the morning of January 28, 1986, despite concerns within NASA and among others working on the launch that the weather was too cold, the shuttle Challenger blasted off. They were the most diverse group of astronauts NASA ever assembled. And the rest of the shuttle crew was itself a representation of the strength of American society: Gregory Jarvis, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Michael Smith, and Commander Dick Scobee. She became a symbol of optimism and progress amid Cold War tension.
Christa McAuliffe, a thirty-seven-year-old mother of two from Concord, New Hampshire, had been selected from eleven thousand entrants to NASA's Teacher in Space contest. It was supposed to be one of the greatest achievements in the history of the United States space program.Ī civilian-a schoolteacher, an emissary of the hope for tomorrow-was going to space.
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On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the Challenger crew and all who gave their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery: #NASARemembers /652yHJ1qmq- NASA January 28, 2021įor more voices from back then, check out " How to Get America Back Into Space" from the March 1987 issue, published shorty after the Challenger accident. 35 years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger and all seven crew members aboard were lost.
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