January 28, 1986. Do you remember where you were?
I was a sophomore at Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. 20 years earlier, Judy Resnik walked the same halls that I did during her senior year. She would go on to be the second American woman into space.
The impact on our school was tremendous. Teachers wept when they heard that their former student was gone. Students shuffled along as if they had lost a classmate. We didn't know Judy but she was one of us and that's what hit home.
It was also later on that the significance of Christa McAullife became more of interest to me. The Teacher in Space program started and ended with her and that fireball over the Florida sky. But there is hope, NASA has rekindled the idea with Mission Specialists that are educators. My mentor for my NASA internship is now one of those astronauts.
Dick Scobee
Mike Smith
Judy Resnik
El Onizuka
Ron McNair
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
2 comments:
I know where I was. I was a senior at Beechcroft. My friend Michele had gone home for lunch and we were sitting in 6th period computer math when she told me she saw it on the news. They announced it in the school during 9th period physics.
Julie
Excellent, that was really well explained and helpful
Post a Comment