Challenger 36 Years Later. The Nation Tuned in to See a Teacher in Space.

Space launches had become so routine to most people by the time Challenger came around that it rarely caused much excitement. Indeed, on that fateful day on January 28, 1986, it was cold and wintry in rural North Carolina, just as it was cold at the site of the launch in Florida. At home with my one-year-old, I remembered the NASA launch was taking place that morning so turned on the television…