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written by David Mixson
It was January 28, 1986, and I was in the Auburn University Student Center. A group of about thirty of us were gathered around a large tubed television watching the Shuttle Challenger countdown. Everything looked normal. But it didn’t stay that way for long.
A minute or so after liftoff, something went horribly wrong. There was a blast and pieces starting going in all different directions. I’ll never forget that pit in my stomach.
“How many elementary-aged kids were so inspired by something NASA did in the last sixty days that their jaw dropped in awe?”
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In 2008, NASA took a different approach and awarded two contracts to carry supplies to ISS using firm-fixed-price contracts. I’ll explain the ISS launch services contracts (supplies and then crew) in the articles below.
* This article originally appeared on LinkedIn as part of the “Make NASA Great” series.
