A look back at how
America's
first attempt to
put a private
citizen in space,
aboard the space
shuttle, went
disastrously
wrong. The fiery
expl
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A look back at how America's first attempt to put a private citizen in space, aboard the space shuttle, went disastrously wrong. The fiery explosion of the shuttle killed teacher Christa McAullife and the six other astronauts on board. I had woken up very early, the day this happened, and was in my room at The Airport Inn in Las Vegas, watching CNN when this happened. I was a musician, and rarely got up that early. It was a horrible moment, and, one I will never forget. In the 1980's I lived directly across the street from the Johnson Space Center, in Clear Lake, Texas. A
friend who worked there took me on a tour of mission control, during an earlier mission. Anyway - may these folks rest in peace.
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