Admiral Halsey
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Based upon these three posts in the WI: Challenger never happened thread.
So lets say instead of Christa McAuliffe being chosen to fly aboard Challenger they are able to get Big Bird to be able to fly it instead? What are the effects this has on Sesame Street? How do they handle Big Birds death on the show? Effects this has on pop culture?
For this lets imagine two scenarios for whatever episode of Sesame Street would've dealt with the flight. The first is that PBS decided to do a special live episode for the launch and the second is that it was going to be a normally taped episode. Now folks discuss!
ASB. A catastrophic accident was (probably) inevitable given the way the Space Shuttle was designed, and when it does happen, it won't just kill seven astronauts, it'll potentially kill a politician or a movie star as well. At the time that Challenger happened NASA was in negotiations to fly John Denver, the idea being that he would write a song in space, and NASA almost flew Big Bird on Challenger's last mission.
As it a whole generation of kindergartners and up were traumatized by the Challenger disaster Big Bird being on it makes way worst. (was in 1st grade every class in my school had a TV rolled in the classroom for the launch)
Oh god that would be horrific. How the show would handle that...(especially if it was doing a special live episode)
So lets say instead of Christa McAuliffe being chosen to fly aboard Challenger they are able to get Big Bird to be able to fly it instead? What are the effects this has on Sesame Street? How do they handle Big Birds death on the show? Effects this has on pop culture?
For this lets imagine two scenarios for whatever episode of Sesame Street would've dealt with the flight. The first is that PBS decided to do a special live episode for the launch and the second is that it was going to be a normally taped episode. Now folks discuss!