On one of the darkest days in NASA history, NEWS CENTER Maine’s Pat Callaghan was there
A look back at the saga of the Space Shuttle, forty years after it first blasted into orbit Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 6:01 PM EDT May 17, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine When NEWS CENTER Maine’s Pat Callaghan traveled to the Kennedy Space Center in January of 1986 to report on the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, he did not pack winter clothes. Who takes a parka and mittens when leaving Maine for Florida?
The overnight temperatures at Cape Canaveral were freezing literally below 32 degrees and so was Pat in the days leading up to the launch as he stood in the outdoor press stands, where gusty winds made the cold even more biting. Shivering in a light raincoat, Pat needed warm clothes, so he and photographer Josh Bradford headed to Sears, where the selection was so poor that he ended up buying the only product he could find for his hands: a pair of garde
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From his broadcasting peers, a lofty honor for Pat Callaghan
Pat Callaghan s 41 years of Maine journalism has resulted in his induction into the New England National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 5:22 AM EST December 17, 2020
PORTLAND, Maine When Pat Callaghan started as a reporter for NEWS CENTER Maine at WLBZ in Bangor in 1979, the equipment was state of the art.
He would have shot his interviews and footage on film, which had to be developed before a frame of it could be broadcast; updated the newsroom by pay phone or two-way car radio from out in the field; banged out his story on a manual typewriter while sitting in an office in which it was perfectly fine for anyone to light up a smoke; and, if the story were a big one and had to be sent from Bangor to Portland, hustled to either the Greyhound bus station or the Bar Harbor Airlines desk at the airport to get the finished product shipped