King tut mini biography of christa mcauliffe
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The space shuttle blew up and now NASA stands for “Need Another sju Astronauts.” Get it?
It’s not funny.
Christa McAuliffe died for no reason. What happened was, for me, a touchstone, something to keep coming back to, something terrible to avoid. It’s way worse than most people realize.
It was January 1986. Florida had historic cold weather. Morton Thiokol (aka MT) engineers told their bosses no fucking way (technical language, not profanity). The launch was cancelled.
Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Ellison Onizuka, and Gregory Jarvis boarding the space shuttle in January 1986.
The engineers at MT knew their shit (another technical term) and their bosses knew they knew their shit. Specifically, they knew the o-rings had never worked the way they were supposed to and they knew all about the danger this presented to the billion-dollar shuttle and to the astronauts aboard. The previous year, a launch at 53 d
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King Tut’s Sarcophagus on display in the Grand Egyptian Museum (Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images).
The month of January boasts the dates of many influential historical events. Here’s the story of three of those occasions, now with even more background and exciting details!
January 3, 1924 – British Egyptologist Howard Carter found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor after several years of searching.
Though “King Tutankhamun” is now a household name, before the 1920s, virtually no one was familiar with the Egyptian pharaoh. Most of the pharaohs’ tombs had been discovered at that point, but the grave of the young King Tut was still lost. For decades prior, Egyptologists excavated in the Valley of Kings, a small ravine close to the city of Luxor that contained dozens of pharaohs’ tombs. By 1914, archaeologists and their sponsors alike were certain that the area was completely picked clean by historians and grave robbers.
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