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

As mentioned by everyone in there where were yous, what made it so much more infamous was every school in the country was watching it since the first teacher was going into space.

The original idea was to send Big Bird into space before they realized that was pretty unattainable because there was no way to deal with those suit logistics. Sometimes I wonder what they would have done if they went through with the Big Bird idea and Big Bird "died" on Challenger.