Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief.
Forty years ago **** e Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida.
Christa McAuliffe was to be the first teacher in **** e.
But the streak of the rocket’s plume did not look right.
“We definitely didn’t know what happened at the time, but you could feel the energy of the teachers,” said Elizabeth Wisner Stroz, now 51, then an 11-year-old in