Judith Resnik

NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They are the U.S. government agency responsible for science and technology related to air and space(Dunbar, NASA.gov). NASA was created in 1958 at the beginning of the Cold War with the goal winning the Space Race (Sandra, NASA.gov). The Space Race started in 1957, when the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite. They won the Space Race by getting a man to the moon first (Barry, history.nasa.gov). After Neil Armstrong walked on the…

On January 28, 1986 seven crew members were killed when their shuttle exploded mid-flight. 74 year old Ronald Reagan was the president at the time of the incident. Reagan was only one year into his second term as president. He was fascinated with the space program so he played a big part in the rebuilding years after the tragedy. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States in 1981, although he did not originally start out as a politician. He was born in Tampico, Illinois on…