It started as a conversation, or rather, many conversations bleeding into each other in the weeks and months after their worlds shifted irrevocably.
Every person aboard the shuttle Challenger was someone’s parent, someone’s spouse, someone’s child, someone’s friend. Their absence left tremendous, unthinkable voids. And in the sudden public tragedy of their deaths, their loved ones worried that the crew — a vibrant group of seven people with a myriad of passions and …