re: School Project:What do you remember....
Back with Challenger I was a Naieve graduate. I had two degrees and a job, two kids and a wife. I thought I was doing OK, and NASA was invincible.
I couldn't imagine failure on that scale. Back then, I was too manly to cry for the dead, and I saw it as a sort of "noble tragedy", especially with the "Teacher in Space".
Come Columbia, I thought "Oh God, not again..."