50 Things You’ll Never Understand Unless You Lived in the 80s

35. The Challenger Explosion

We all sat stunned in awe and disbelief as the Challenger shuttle exploded, Christa McAuliffe was the first civilian NASA attempted to send into space the 37 year old schoolteacher we all had come to know and love died along with all the other astronauts onboard 73 seconds after launch in the space shuttle Challenger disaster.