When the Challenger exploded in 86, it was said “Need Another Seven Astronauts”. In New England, whose Patriots lost the Super Bowl to the Bears 46-10, it was said the Super Bowl and the Challenger had one thing in common: both were good for about 86 seconds...
Under President Reagan's inspired leadership, NASA was the pride of the world for its achievements. But all of his good was undone by the DemonRAT-controlled House of Representatives run by the drunken idiot Tipsy O'Neill and wrongway Jim Wright. Had the GOP been in control of Congress, I doubt that the Challenger tragedy would have happened. DemonRATs dismantled the military, and then, as now, they undermined NASA.