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How Knoxville reacted to the Challenger disaster
Posted On Feb 01 2016
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Thursday marks 30 years since the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which took the lives of 7 astronauts.
While the Challenger disaster led to many safety recommendations, the space shuttle program faced a second disaster on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded upon reentry to Earth’s atmosphere. “I suppose that would be another thing I would have to say about this is that sometimes when you know something is wrong you have to kind of stand up for it and be obnoxious perhaps, even though a lot of people would rather not do that sort of thing”, says Washington State Community College Physics professor, Dean Hirschi. McAuliffe, who works in education technology in ME, said having his own two sons there with him – ages 6 and 8 – made it easier.
The Challenger accident also revealed issues at the management level for NASA.
They have also delivered payloads to the International Space Station, tacking over a role NASA’s now retired space shuttles handled.
On january 28, 1986, the NASA space shuttle Challenger took off from Cape Canaveral with 17 percent of the American public watching live on their televisions.
“One of the crew members, Christa McAuliffe, was going to be the first teacher in space”.
Students said it is important to remember what happened.
Investigations concluded a burn through on the O-rings is what primarily caused the explosion.
Manning said, “I think that’s probably one of the first memories I have as a child”.
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”. But Sumners and Scobee Rodgers believe that the woman who once said, “I teach…and I touch the future” is still doing exactly that: inspiring students to reach for their dreams.
