"Schools did not stop the day to force students to watch a live broadcast channel that was only available via satellite." The problem is, they did, and boy, did blowback ensue.

The address was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television. (The author with Space Shuttle Atlantis at Edwards Air Force Base, CA 2009) ...

The mid-1980s may feel distant to today’s Northwestern students. But to me, a 22-year-old senior at the Medill School of Journalism — nearly 40 years ago, today — that time is forever etched ...

Watch on ABOVE VIDEO: 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion: CNN’s live broadcast. Following is the transcript from President Ronald Reagan’s speech to the nation after the disaster: ...

Not only was it a high profile disaster, it was broadcast live via satellite and cable TV into the classrooms of 2.5 million American schoolchildren.

The astronauts' families, at the airbase, and millions of Americans witnessed the world's worst space disaster live on TV This BBC News report was first broadcast on 28 January 1986. BBC Archive ...

Space Shuttle Challenger FILE - In this Jan. 28, 1986 file photo the space shuttle Challenger is destroyed by an explosion shortly after it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Thursday, Jan ...