'Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes' Recounts Shuttle Tragedy 30 Years Later

On the evening of Jan. 28, 1986, 30 years ago this week, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush and astronaut and Senator John Glenn met with NASA's space shuttle launch team, who hours earlier had lost Challenger and its seven-member crew to a then-still-unknown cause just 73 seconds into flight. Speaking to the controllers from inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Bush offered his respects on what he described as "one of the toughest, if not the toughest day"