I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry this week. Last Saturday, I sat in the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts and listened to 25 high school students recite from ...
A person on X posted a picture last Tuesday. The picture was one of the pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger recovered after its explosion on Jan. 28, 1986. The picture, posted by someone with the ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
We lost seven astronauts that day — the first time we had ever lost any in-flight, and the first in my lifetime. I have never forgotten the moment, even though I was only five years old; it was the ...
This weekend marks a grim anniversary. It’s the 22nd anniversary of a day when national tragedy also carried personal anguish in Southern Maryland, especially in St. Mary’s County.
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.