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Tomorrow is January 28, and if you are old enough, you undoubtedly have a clear memory of exactly where you were 35 years agp, on January 28, 1986.
That was the day of that horrible tragedy, the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Among the crew members was teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe, who had won a nationwide competition to become the first teacher in space.
Watching the liftoff in person that day was Christa McAuliffe’s mother, Grace George Corrigan.
A few years later, Corrigan wrote a book about her daughter, and that’s when I met her.
So here now, from 1993, Grace George Corrigan.
Christa’s father died in 1990,
Grce George Corrigan died in 2018 at athe age of 94.
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