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Challenger itself was a high profile tragedy for a couple of reasons. for one thing it marked the first civilian in space, christine max cula, the social studies teacher was on board, also nasa decided to pipe in a live feed, so if you talk to many americans in their 30s they have a clear memory of those as they watched it live. cold air may have something to do with the disaster, the cold weather opened up the o rings, 30 seconds into its liftoff, 10 miles above the atlantic ocean. it was a rea...