Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "The Challenger Crew: 73 Seconds From Disaster" video.

  1. I know that a lot of us were really thinking that there was little danger, that soon we would be zooming around as routine, because the most brilliant minds in the world worked on the the project and then to find out that such a stupid thing brought it to destruction, something fixable that was IGNORED and played down, that never needed to happen, was too horrible...hubris killed the crew...
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  2. Our neighbor, Dr. Loren Acton, trained for years after being chosen as a payload specialist for a space mission. He was a solar physicist and got the 1985 spacelab 2 trip, right before the Challenger. It could have been either one. I got to see them a couple of times before they moved out of Palo Alto, he told us fascinating accounts of being in space, admitting he suffered from some motion sickness up there (which sounds awful, being claustrophobic in that tiny space with no way to get back for days..ugh!). It must have been a fantastic dream come true for him, and life changing. I know they were very deeply grieved by the loss of the Challenger crew, whom they knew and probably spent time training with...
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