Space Shuttle Challenger

The Challenger disaster was the first “Where were you?” Moment for children in primary schools now in the 30s. Wheeled and televisions in the classroom so they could watch the first teacher launched into space.
And saw that instead of a national disaster unfold live.
“We remember when it exploded, it appeared in all our teacher, because we knew that was not supposed to happen,” said Patricia Corrales, 36. She was in sixth grade when the Challenger exploded.
Corrales said in bewilderment and children. They looked to their teachers.
“She had tears streaming down her face, and I will never forget looking at my teacher and waiting for her to tell me he was fine.”
The dawn of the space shuttle Challenger in only 73 seconds of its mission 25 years ago today. And killed seven astronauts in the disaster and the development of the space shuttle program back two years. And caused changes in the way they were building rocket engines in support Morton Thiokol, now ATK Space Systems, in Utah, and was forced to a full review of how the decision-making for NASA’s launch made.
It was on national television that the Challenger launch because one of the astronauts, Christa McAuliffe was, and New Hampshire high school teacher. And launches the shuttle is very normal and safe it seems that the media does not cover it. NASA hopes the teacher in space program would revive the public interest. McAuliffe was going to give lessons to students on the face of the earth from space.
“I remember I went to see more of the space shuttle because I have not seen one,” said Corrales, who left the Ogden three years ago to work at the IRS center in Arizona.
“We were all very happy because we were counting down, and then go and we were all staring, and we saw it, and it got really quiet when it exploded, and we did not know that he (the blast) wasn ‘supposed to happen.
He added: “We were all in our teacher, and I remember thinking, ‘it will surely say this is supposed to happen, and tears flowing down her face only.”
The Andrea Stemp, and now in Pownal, Vermont, in the first grade in elementary school Sarah Jane Adams in iTunes.
“I remember they wheeled a large TV to stand up to the room, and we view it,” she said. “Everyone was very happy that there is a teacher on board, and then an error occurred, and the teacher began to cry.
“The students are also upset many.”
She said it took years to achieve the disaster was real.
“He does not seem that it could be.”
The Ogden City Council Amy Wicks sixth time in the classroom in the elementary school in Tallman abundant.
“I remember watching with disbelief as he exploded,” she said. “I had joy in general, and young teacher the look of horror and disbelief, and was trying not to let the tears in her eyes to escape and run down her cheeks.
“She walked to the television on and off, went out into the hallway to restore calm for what seemed like hours, but was probably only 90 seconds. Returned to the classroom and muttered something about the need to continue to move on despite adversity.
“Rang a bell, and then we were let to the holiday, and I remember the teachers in the hallway, and talk in disbelief. What do you do?”
Now, as an adult, “said Wicks, she can understand the problem of teachers. If it were in place and said she did not know what you’re doing, either.
It was John Hinds, assistant professor at the University of Weber, and teaching / Ogden and Weber College of Technology in the region in 1986. He said that the remains of the disaster shocked the teachers are not sure what to do.
“I remember I was watching the exhaust path of division,” said: that was when the shuttle blew up and reinforcement separated.
“In the sense that something was wrong, a strong sense of panic. However the continuation of coverage to realize that people have died probably. Kresta and this was probably dead.”
May also feel “wash of emotion, in the sense that students were watching me for a reaction. An attempt to answer the questions.”
He said the students were on a “what, where and when, not emotional, and I was an emotional one at that time, and I was trying not to be.”
He said Donnalee Trease, a teacher in sixth grade in the area of the creek in Farmington, said she had not taught in primary schools in 1986, but during the Columbia disaster in 2003. It is also the coordinator of school activities at the state level with NASA, which means it takes students to Space Camp, and is working with NASA in the state of Utah educational activities.
The potential for disaster is always there, she said, and teachers need to be honest with the students.
“I think that the way to deal with the (Colombia) and explained that with any industry there will be a disaster,” she said. “There is a risk of being killed on the road more than it was when you’re involved in something like this space.”
In the category of “we were very much in this, so what we did, and I literally brought in counselors. I say: Let me go through this with you.
“As far as the Challenger, we’re talking about three disasters from space”, which was a capsule of Apollo 1 when three astronauts died in a fire during training, Challenger and Columbia.