Mr Spinney in full big bird costume – was selected initially to take part in the 1986 Challenger mission as part of NASA's initiative to encourage children to become more engaged with the US space program. They later found problems trying to send an eight-foot, two-inch character into space, the idea was stopped. Instead his place was given to a teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
She was selected to communicate with students during the space shuttle's flight but died with six other astronauts when Challenger broke apart barely a minute into its flight in January 1986. Mr Spinney said the cast and crew of Sesame Street stopped filming to watch the launch. "I couldn't believe how horrible that was and we were grieving for the pilots and the teacher, for their families and them losing their life like that," he told CBC in an interview.
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