Challenger lifts off on a mission in 1986. (NASA/)Countless children dream of going to space, but one 14-year-old in 1986 may actually have had a shot at it: Peter Billingsley.Billingsley played the adorable, doe-eyed 9-year old Ralphie Parker in the holiday movie A Christmas Story—the goofy, sometimes hilarious 1983 classic that has become one of the best known, and most beloved, Christmas films ever. The film centers on Ralphie’s all-consuming desire to get a Red Ryder BB gun. Billingsley is now a 49-year-old actor, producer, and director in Los Angeles, California.But Billingsley’s dream was shattered on January 28, 1986, by the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, one of the
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