The Tragic Challenger Explosion
The Tragic Challenger Explosion
The Tragic Challenger Explosion Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space programs is overshadowed by tragedy. On January 28, 1986, one of the worst disasters in our space program's history occurred. Many people were watching at the moment because it was the highly televised space mission where, for the first time, a civilian was a member of the crew that was to be shot into space.
This civilian was the winner of the "Teacher in Space" contest, Christa
McAuliffe. The disaster: the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
(Compton's 1) Many people thought that disaster couldn't strike because a civilian was on board. But as the whole nation found out, nobody is immortal.
By examining this further, we will look at the lives of the seven who died in this dumbfounding calamity, take a look at exactly what went wrong during this fateful mission, and the outcome from this sorrowful occurrence. First, who exactly were those astronauts that died on the Challenger? Sharon Christa
Corrigan McAuliffe, born in 1948, was the famous winner of the teacher-in-space program, was a high school teacher at Concord, N. H., a wife, and a mother of two children. She touched the lives of all those she knew and taught. As a school official in Concord said after her death, "To us, she seemed average.
But she turned out to be remarkable. She handled success so beautifully." She also wanted everyone to learn more, including herself. Demonstrating her aspirations after entering the space program, she is quoted saying, "What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars." Also, after reflecting on her position, she said in August 1995, "I touch the future, I teach (Gray 32)."
Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, born in
The Tragic Challenger Explosion Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space programs is overshadowed by tragedy. On January 28, 1986, one of the worst disasters in our space program's history occurred. Many people were watching at the moment because it was the highly televised space mission where, for the first time, a civilian was a member of the crew that was to be shot into space.
This civilian was the winner of the "Teacher in Space" contest, Christa
McAuliffe. The disaster: the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
(Compton's 1) Many people thought that disaster couldn't strike because a civilian was on board. But as the whole nation found out, nobody is immortal.
By examining this further, we will look at the lives of the seven who died in this dumbfounding calamity, take a look at exactly what went wrong during this fateful mission, and the outcome from this sorrowful occurrence. First, who exactly were those astronauts that died on the Challenger? Sharon Christa
Corrigan McAuliffe, born in 1948, was the famous winner of the teacher-in-space program, was a high school teacher at Concord, N. H., a wife, and a mother of two children. She touched the lives of all those she knew and taught. As a school official in Concord said after her death, "To us, she seemed average.
But she turned out to be remarkable. She handled success so beautifully." She also wanted everyone to learn more, including herself. Demonstrating her aspirations after entering the space program, she is quoted saying, "What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars." Also, after reflecting on her position, she said in August 1995, "I touch the future, I teach (Gray 32)."
Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, born in
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