Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is one of the epic moments of history that is rooted in my memory. I will always remember sitting in my elementary school library and the TV was on wheels for us to see the launch of Challenger. I was eight, and honestly, when I saw the Challenger explosion on television, I really had no idea what had happened.Twenty five years ago today, January 28.1986, Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into the flight and a devastated country. America watched in horror as school children watched the disaster on live television in classrooms across the country as Christa McAuliffe was the first teacher in space.
The future is not for the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave, President Ronald Reagan told the nation 25 years after the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, only 73 seconds to his team of Challenger was launch.The pulling us forward, and we continue to follow them.Assisstant Director Bridgette Pronovost said that children in school as far as Pennsylvania to visit the center. An evening event to mark the anniversary will be celebrated Friday at Center.We remember them want to continue the mission and that is what we always say here, "The mission continues, Pronovost said.
Millions of Americans witnessed the tragedy on television, many of which were in line, because it would be the first flight of the master's program in space and Sharon Christa McAuliffe was the first civilian to fly in space. We remember the heroes of the American space shuttle Challenger, Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik.But week before launch, came down with a cold. Not wanting to risk of contamination of the crew, NASA officials referred him to Houston.Meanwhile Weitz, NASA officials, families and former astronauts gathered Friday morning in an outdoor memorial at Kennedy Space Center Florida to commemorate the anniversary dark.
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