30 years since the Challenger

The award-winning artist sang “Love Never Fails” and a song he wrote specially for the astronauts titled “Out There”.

Among the astronauts on board was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old New Hampshire social studies teacher who was selected to be the first teacher in space.

And making a rare appearance in the audience will be schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe’s son, Scott, with his own family.

The crew of USA space shuttle Columbia (Front: L-R) William McCool, Rick Husband, (Second row, L-R) K …

The Challenger was scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center 144 hours and 34 minutes after its launch.

It’s also honoring lives lost in the Apollo I mission, where three astronauts lost their lives in a cockpit fire in 1967, and the space shuttle Columbia tragedy of 2003, which saw the shuttle disintegrate upon reentering the atmosphere over Texas.

NASA later determined the cause of the explosion was an O-ring failure in the right solid rocket booster.

Despite the Challenger’ disaster, Garneau said the lure of space remained strong.

184-r-42-(Former NASA astronaut Jon McBride reading names of astronauts who died in the Challenger disaster, during memorial service at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex)-“S. Christa McAuliffe”-Former NASA astronaut Jon McBride, struggling with his emotions, read the names of the astronauts who died in the Challenger disaster”.

“(We’re) teaching the schoolchildren some of the lessons that the crew was going to teach, but to carry on that legacy of education, so that we could keep children interested in science and maybe space exploration, as well”, Charles Resnik said.

“I was the Johnson Space Center, with hundred and hundreds of other NASA employees watching the launch and it was just unbelievable”, said Dr. Chuck Wood.

FILE – This Jan. 28, 1986 photo provided by NASA shows icicles on hand rails of the space shuttle Challenger’s service structure on the morning of its final launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. “Our thoughts and memories of Christa will always be fresh and comforting”.

Tragedy struck 30 years ago today.

Because his mission in January of 1986 had been scrubbed four times due to unfavorable weather conditions, Nelson said he shared crew quarters with the Challenger crew. I’m more enlightened by the fact that there’s always somebody who knows who she was’.

“For so many people, 30 years, it’s definitely history”. Every time he takes students through Arlington National Cemetery he tells them the story of the space shuttle.