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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For many, no single word evokes as much pain. Challenger.
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - The Challenger explosion left an indelible impression on Renee Sotile, who, like so many starry-eyed students in 1986, had been captivated by a teacher who was part of the ill- fated crew heading to space. What stuck with Sotile, then a teenager in Rochester, N.Y., wasn't Christa McAuliffe's very public death in a corkscrew-shaped column of smoke that told a live television audience that she and the six other astronauts had been killed.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Hundreds gathered at NASA's launch site Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, receiving words of hope from the widow of the space shuttle's commander. The chilly outdoor ceremony drew space agency managers, former astronauts, past and current launch directors, family and friends of the fallen crew - and schoolchildren who weren't yet born when the space shuttle carrying a high school teacher from Concord, N.H., erupted in the sky.
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CENTERVILLE -- Twenty years ago, Jim Rowley, then a 38-year-old Centerville High School teacher, stood in excitement and awe as he and his class watched the liftoff of the Challenger space shuttle. Its crew of seven included New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe. Rowley, an environmental science teacher, was chosen as one of 100 teachers in the nation to be in NASA's Teacher in Space program.
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We are thrilled and honored that Broadway Bank has chosen San Antonio College to be the recipient of this beautiful and inspiring painting," said Dr. [Robert E. Zeigler]. "SAC is the home of the Francis Scobee Planetarium, named for the late, outstanding, former student and astronaut who died in the tragic Challenger explosion. So we gladly accept this generous gift as a further tribute to Francis Scobee, and for future students who will continue to expand their understanding of the world. "The one thing that some of the young people might take an interest in is that [Buzz Aldrin] appears to have a stick in his hand," explained [Emeritus Charles E. Cheever], "but it is really a golf club, and he snuck it on board along with a golf ball to be the first person to tee off the moon. That ...
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Events are being planned in Colorado Springs to commemorate the 25th anniversary this month of the space shuttle Challenger explosion. The Challenger Learning Center of Colorado is planning a Jan. 27 dinner that will feature NASA astronauts Dick Covey and Fred Gregory, who were in contact with the Challenger crew during the launch.
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DOWNEY -- Carl McNair, brother of the late astronaut Ronald McNair, will talk about discuss his brother and his book, "In the Spirit of Ronald E. McNair," Tuesday at the Columbia Memorial Space Center. Carl McNair's visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which killed his brother and six other crew members -- Francis Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis.
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- We all have our "I remember that day" memory of an event that defined the time in our lives. Sept. 11, 2001, has joined Dec. 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy." Many will never forget the Kennedy assassination, or the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. The deaths of Elvis, Princess Diana or Michael Jackson. Landing on the moon or the Challenger shuttle explosion. We want to hear about your defining moment.
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NORMAL - Onetime astronaut hopeful Lynne Curry and Scott Altman, a Lincoln native who has flown the space shuttle three times, came away from the Challenger explosion 20 years ago with different perspectives of mans future in space. I had no qualms about doing it years ago, but no way would they get me to do that, not now," said Curry, one of 100 teacher-in- space semifinalists. Christa McAuliffe, who won the competition from among about 11,000 who applied, was aboard the Challenger when it exploded Jan. 28, 1986. Also killed were mission commander Francis Scobee, pilot Michael J. Smith, mission specialists Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka and Judith Resnik, and payload specialist Gregory Jarvis.
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Big Story The big story 25 years ago (1986) involved the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which blew up in a huge fireball two minutes after blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla. All seven members of the crew, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed. The Concord, N.H., social studies teacher was chosen from among 11,000 candidates as the first private citizen to fly on a shuttle. Students at her school, assembled to watch their teacher's launch, sat in stunned silence.
