Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old social studies teacher from New Hampshire, beat out 11,400 other applicants to win her spot on the Challenger. All of them were killed in the 1986 explosion. with the space station pending development of the shuttle vehicle (NASA,1986). After the space shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in a fiery, catastrophic explosion on January 28, 1986, NASA appointed members of the Rogers. Bettmann/Getty Images The seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger. During NASA Langley's October Colloquium, Allan McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the Challenger tragedy from where he stood at the Launch Control Center. īe sure to "like" the page, as well as leave your memories of this event! You can also email your memories to or click on the Comment button and share them there. The Challenger was the second space shuttle constructed by NASA and had. On January 28, 1986, as the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up over the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds into its flight, Allan McDonald looked on in shock - despite the fact that the night before, he had refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concerns. What do you remember about this event? Visit This Week in Central Jersey History/Remember When at. This article was compiled using archived reports that appeared in the Courier News. The 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger resulted from corporate-government relationships and actions that represented serious organizational. We can't let something like this stop us," she said. And I wish it didn't happen."įeldman's enthusiasm of space flight was undaunted. And I was shocked and I have great sympathy for them. Overview, As people all over the world watched on TV, NASAs space shuttle Challenger (Fig. "I would tell them I feel very sorry for them and I was looking forward to seeing her go up. "She was very brave to go up," said Julie Gast, then Student Council president and a sixth grader at Hillsborough School, who wanted to send a letter to McAuliffe's family.
This has been publicized so heavily right from (the) beginning since the president proposed it." There's an identification with someone who is a real teacher going up into space. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal incident on January 28, 1986, in the United States space program where the Space Shuttle Challenger. Ford, a school psychologist at the North Brunswick high and middle schools, said, "I would think it's going to impact pretty seriously on kids who have followed this closely. Of all the fragments of Challenger which were recovered, this. Central Jersey school psychologists also weighed in on the impact they felt the tragedy would have upon children. On January 28, 1986, six American astronauts and a schoolteacher lost their lives after the.
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