By a bright blue morning in Florida in 1986, the Challenger space shuttle launched into space. Twenty-eight years have passed since NASA was first formed. shuttle flights had become routine. What set it apart was the diversity of the crew and the addition of the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe. The shuttle took off from the hope and pride of a nation in love with the American program of spaciousness and monitored by school children fill the classrooms in the momentum of the morning.
Sixty-three seconds later, the shuttle disappeared into a cloud orange and white, and the nation was in shock and disbelief.
President Ronald Reagan, in a broadcast to the nation to pass this afternoon, paraphrased a sonnet by John Gillespie Magee, a young American pilot during the Second World War that killed the crew wrote, "slipped the surly bonds Earth to touch the face of God.
Read Post article, "The horror got up slowly," from January 28, 1986 here.
Where were you the day the Challenger? What are your memories of that day?
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Reagan's speech here on the night of the Challenger explosion:
The lessons of the Challenger 25 years later:
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