Remembering the Shuttle Challenger

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The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of January 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.

The crew of STS-51-L: Front row from left, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, Ron McNair. Back row from left, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judith Resnik.


Michael said...

Ah yes.

If the engineers and scientists had been in the driver’s seat, these folks would still be with us.

But no, administrators and bureaucrats are involved, dragging politics and vanity into an equation in which they do not belong…

Such as the amount of prestige to be gained by the appearance of launches being executed on schedule.

Tribute to you valiant seven, like Icarus, brave explorers on the leading edge of life.