On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion soon after launch. (Public domain photo from the Kennedy Space Center)
On anniversary of Challenger explosion, how we deal with tragedy
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Friday is the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Midmorning examines what lessons the nation has learned about coping with disaster since the Challenger exploded before our eyes in 1986.
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Robert Ursano: M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland and Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress.
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David Sanger: Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times. Part of the Pulitzer-prize winning team that covered the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986.
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