re: The Challenger exploded on this day 38 years ago...January 28, 1986.

IIRC, President Reagan was supposed to have a speech that night or even the SOTU speech. There was pressure to launch so Reagan could talk about during his speech.

One thing that came out of it was all future briefing packages developed by the Utah Division required a footnote stating something to the effect: “The contents of this briefing are incomplete without the verbal discussion that was included during the presentation.” Apparently something was interpreted wrongly based on the printed material. I don’t know how it affected the decision making, but thought it was interesting that it was required going forward