Essay On Challenger Shuttle

“If you lose military people during a military operation; it’s sad and it’s tragic, but they’re professionals doing a job… But you’re taking someone who’s not a professional and it happened to be that mission that got lost- it added to the shock.” said Chiao, a former astronaut. The shuttle Challenger had gone into space nine times before this mission. All nine of those missions had launched and landed properly without any trouble, so they were not expecting this shock. The Challenger shuttle played a big role in President Reagan's Teacher in Space program. The shuttle was going to take a teacher named Christa McAuliffe into space. This was planned because Reagan wanted more kids interested in space and to show them that they can be a part of history too. After they passed …show more content…
A little over ten years after the disaster of the Challenger, huge pieces of the Challenger shuttle washed up on a beach on the coast in California. NASA again regained its strength and launched the Discovery many years after the Challenger. Many design changes had been made to the Discovery to prevent another disaster from happening again. The back up teacher for Christa McAuliffe went up into space and had full training, so she classified for a real astronaut. Later after this event another space shuttle went up to space safely, but while coming back down broke up and killed the whole crew. Today, Americans travel up to space with other countries until NASA can make sure every shuttle goes up to space and comes back down safely. “The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God,'” President Ronald Reagan ( Cole) (history.com) (space.com)