University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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After winning the World Series, the Kansas City Royals guests of honor at a ticker-tape parade through llowntown Kansas City. On the Opposite page, Bret riaberhagen is shown amid the crowd of excited Royal 'ans. Bret had quite a lot to celebrate about. He had been tamed the most valuable player of the World Series ames, his wife had just had a baby, and he would soon ve named the recipient of the Cy Young Award. One of the single most tragic events that occurred dur- ag the 1985-86 school year was the explosion of the space uttle Challenger. lust over a minute after takeoff, one of ie solid booster rockets apparently malfunctioned, ignit- ,ig the external fuel tank containing 525,000 gallons of . 'quid hydrogen, and killed all seven astronauts on board. 1 Above, the white contrail of the shuttle exhaust bal- oons into the remains of the explosion. Particles rain la t of control. Killed were flight commander Francis R. Scobee, 46: pi- gown, and the two solid booster rockets continue flying 'J lot Mike Smith, 403 astronauts Iudy Resnick, 363 Ronald E. McNair, 363 Ellison S. Onizuka, 39, Gregory Iarvis, 413 and Christa McAuliffe, 37. McAuliffe, a Concord, N.l-l. schoolteacher, was part of NASA's Citizen in Space program. After the explosion, debris continued to rain down into the Atlantic Ocean for approximately 45 minutes. Cur- rents carried the debris northward along the coast, scattering remains of the shuttle as far north as Georgia. At the time of this printing the exact cause of the explo- sion was not certain. It is speculated that the malfunction occurred with one of the solid booster rockets, but NASA officials are not certain. We may never know exactly what caused the shuttle's fiery explosion, but the memory of the seven noble and brave lives that were lost will live on forever. In the words of President Reagan, The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.