the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo casset
january 86 was the 25th flight of the space shuttle but it was an especially notable one because hundreds of thousands, if not millions of school kids around the country were tuned into the launch. it was the first mission i wasn t in the mission control center. i was outside standing next to the families. t-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower. roger roll, challenger. good roll, flight. my responsibilities for that flight was i was spacecraft communicator. i was actually communicating with the crew. engine s throttling up. challenger go with throttle up.
30 weeks later, after columbia had been returned to the kennedy space center, astronauts joe engel and dick truly flew into space again. space shuttle was like a large truck that could deploy satellites and it had a robotic arm so that you can repair and upgrade spacecraft. and liftoff of the orbiter challenger. and the sixth flight of the space shuttle. this was the birth of space travel not just space missions. we are talking about sending a laboratory, almost like a university in space, and it started feeling like anybody could be an astronaut. the countdown is under way tonight at cape canaveral toward sunday s scheduled launch of the shuttle challenger. a liftoff that will carry america s first teacher into space. still doesn t seem real that i m going to be able to go with these guys. i m excited. the ice is cleared away and challenger should be going away very soon. let s go down to the kennedy space center and take a look at challenger sitting on the pad
space shuttle was like a large truck that could deploy satellites and it had a robotic arm so that you can repair and upgrade spacecraft. and liftoff of the orbitter challenger. this was the birth of space travel not just space missions. we are talking about sending a laboratory, almost like a university in space, and it started feeling like anybody could be an astronaut. the countdown is under way tonight at cape canaveral toward sunday s scheduled launch of the shuttle challenger. a liftoff that will carry america s first teacher into space. still doesn t seem real that i m going to be able to go with these guys. i m excited. the ice is cleared away and challenger should be going away very soon. let s go down to the kennedy space center and take a look at challenger sitting on the pad as they continue the countdown. the challenger flight in january 86 was the 25th flight of the space shuttle but it was
space shuttle was like a large truck that could deploy satellites and it had a robotic arm so that you can repair and upgrade spacecraft. and liftoff of the orbiter challenger. this was the birth of space travel not just space missions. we are talking about sending a laboratory, almost like a university in space, and it started feeling like anybody could be an astronaut. the countdown is under way tonight at cape canaveral toward sunday s scheduled launch of the shuttle challenger. a liftoff that will carry america s first teacher into space. still doesn t seem real that i m going to be able to go with these guys. i m excited. the ice is cleared away and challenger should be going away very soon. let s go down to the kennedy space center and take a look at challenger sitting on the pad as they continue the countdown. the challenger flight in january 86 was the 25th flight of the space shuttle but it was an especially notable one because hundreds of thousands, i