Challenger disaster

genareddog
genareddog Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Do you remember where you were 30 years ago when you heard about this? My senior year of high school in government class. What about everyone else?

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  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was in 3rd grade ironically at Columbia elementary school in East orlando probably 20 miles from Cape canaveral. It used to be common for all schools to let the kids go outside and watch the launches in orlando. It can be seen for miles. Obviously it wasn't a great idea that day
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  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    genareddog said:
    Do you remember where you were 30 years ago when you heard about this? My senior year of high school in government class. What about everyone else?

    Same here.
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  • kswildcat
    kswildcat Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
    7th grade in science class. Was watching it for part of the class.
  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was 5 months old...
  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MikeTodd said:
    I was 5 months old...
    Wow I feel a bit old
  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was on the job then and I was watching it on one of the TV.s in the HQ classroom.

    You guys are making me feel old too!
  • SleevePlz
    SleevePlz Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭✭
    Watched it in the media center at my elementary school. Pretty devastating for a ten year old.
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  • Bigshizza
    Bigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was at work cause.... I was 25... Very heartbreaking
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,494 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2016
    Heh, you kids, I was 37, just popped into the local camera shop, couldn't understand for a while why everyone was looking pale. 
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember this too. Still get a tiny pang of sadness when I think about it 
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  • Dark_Roast
    Dark_Roast Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭
    Working for MCI Telecommunications. Everyone on the floor gravitated to the conference room with a TV. You could hear a pin drop. 
  • Bigsmoke78
    Bigsmoke78 Posts: 86 ✭✭✭
    Happened on my birthday
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was very cold. I think I was off work that day due to heavy snow. I went to help my father down on the farm. He was having trouble due to frozen pipes and other cold/snow problems. I remember telling him and my mother about it when I got there. They had been outside all morning at that point and hadn't heard. Shuttle missions had become routine. They didn't want to believe me.  

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