Saddest series of pictures I’ve ever seen is the one with Christa McCauliff’s family watching her go up. Her dad goes from proud parent to bewilderment and despair in a matter of seconds. He died of cancer a few years later and didn’t have the will to fight it. Her mother is still alive and goes around on lecture tours promoting space travel..
Poor woman. Lots of unintentional irony there, considering her daughter's life was thrown away promoting that very thing.