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35 years since Challenger launch disaster: Never forgotten
by Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 28, 2021 2:57 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 28, 2021 at 2:58 pm EDT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA leaders, retired launch directors, families of fallen astronauts and space fans marked the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster on Thursday, vowing never to forget the seven who died during liftoff.
The pandemic kept this year’s remembrance more muted than usual.
Barely 100 people all masked and seated or standing far apart gathered in front of Kennedy Space Center’s Space Mirror Memorial. The late morning ceremony was held almost exactly the same time as the accident shortly after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986.
The media froze our grief in newspapers and TV clips, Rodgers told TODAY. It was so unbearable.
Throughout the years, multiple books, documentaries and TV specials have been devoted to the Challenger disaster, including a recent Netflix docuseries, Challenger: The Final Flight, which examined the mechanical failures and behind-the-scenes decisions that led to the destruction. Rodgers called the series the most thorough retelling of what happened.
She s always known her husband had concerns about the mission. We talked about those risks, and he was willing to take those risks, she said.
Still, she found the series eye-opening. I learned a great deal that I didn t know, she said, adding that, following the show s success, one of the filmmakers called her to say hers was the most searched name on Google that day.
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With a series of high-profile workplace sex scandals on their minds, employers are making sure their holiday office parties don’t become part of the problem. There will be less booze at many. An independent business organization has renewed its annual warning not to hang mistletoe. And some will have party monitors, keeping an eye out for inappropriate behavior. TV and. Arizona Oct 24, 2017
Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85.
Weitz died at his retirement home in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Monday, said Laura Cutchens of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. No cause of death was given.