The Challenger....25 years ago.
 

Where were you when the Challenger exploded? 25 years ago today I was in High School.

I think I was in grade 3

Probably in my diapers :)

math class it was crazy watching someones life end in a blink of an eye.

You and I are old.


:Oh crap

I was 6 years old,

I was working with a flaky satellite dish, and had pulled the launch up to watch while working with another part of the system.
Spent a good part of the rest of the day watching raw news feeds, and the reactions of news people. Tom Brokaw weeping for the death of his friend. Dan Rather pissed about someone off camera making noise. The look on Christina McAuliffe's parents faces as they thought it was all part of the show, then the realization that something was very wrong. A very sad day.

In Caracas in a taxi cab headed to a hospital

I was watching it live on tv. I always like to watch the shuttle launches whenever they are. Pretty damn shocking then, and now.

I remember all the jokes after it happend.

"What did Christa McAuliffe tell her husband before she left? You feed the dogs and I'll feed the fishes!"

"What was the last thing Christa McAuliffe said? What does this button do."

I was in school watching it in the school library with the class.

i was in grade 5 i think. everyone was talking about it.

I was wanking to a big tit video and heard it on the news in the background....sure ruined my nut that day

Awwwwwwwwww

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh


Is it wrong to find that funny?

I was off the Saudi Arabia coast on a Navy ship.

I was in the 8th grade. Man that was a shocker. Still is!

No, not at all. It was a tragic day, no doubt, but that is what I was doing ;)

Fuck time flies!

farting around point grey at 3

Isn't that near point blue?

What happened?

i was 16.

Downtown LA, working on a high rise I think

I was 11 years old so not sure what I was doing.

Back in Primary school.

I wasnt even born!

I was in school, living in FL. The teachers took us out into the playground to watch the shuttle go up. I remember one teacher that stayed inside to watch on TV sticking her head out and saying, "Oh my god, bring them back in, quick."

Teachers were especially gung ho for the launch since it was "the first teacher in space". They were completely destroyed, I was in kindergarten.. we were too young to understand what was happening. I remember on the ride home from school looking for space shuttle parts out the window.

I was a little fellow.

I still remember that day. I was sitting in a waiting area of an automotive glass repair shop waiting for a cracked wind shield to be replaced. They had a TV on in the waiting room. It was surreal.

I was watching the launch live on TV when it happened. A huge fan of the space program, I watched nearly every launch. It's hard to describe the feeling I had when I realized what had happened. It was a very sad day indeed. A reminder that nothing about space travel is routine.


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I was in 3rd grade. They had set up TV's in every classroom to watch the launch. One of the moments I remember most clearly from my early childhood.

I cant believe its been 25 years.

Chilling
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In there.

NASA - Need Another Sever Astronauts :Oh crap

I was 3 years old... :P

Wow we told are age! LMAO

I was in electronics class in high school.

Someone brought in an old TV set and we were trying to figure out what it's problem was. We had several old sets and figured out it needed a tube replaced. We found one in an old set and got it working.

The Challenger was just leaving the launch pad and our teacher was a space fanatic so he suggested we leave it on. We were just about to get back to our seats when it blew up and he instantly knew what had happened. He just sat there stunned looking at the TV. After about a minute of silence he turned off the set and went to the back room to cry I guess...

He worked for JPL so perhaps he was a bit connected to the whole thing.

We turned the TV back on and put it real low and watched the news anchors get all agro.

I was working on a high rise doing construction down in Naples on the gulf coast of FL. It was a cool, crisp day with a deep blue sky that made the visibility perfect. I can't remember if it was break time or lunch but we headed to the east side of the building to ride the buck hoist down to the ground. Even though Naples is over 200 miles from the cape on a clear day you can still see the shuttle launch. Being up high on the condo also helped.

So a friend and I were waiting for the hoist and we could clearly see the contrail had split in two and I said " That can't be good ". Made it to my car and put on the radio and heard the news.It was the first time in my life that I felt the USA wasn't perfect.

haha no sir :) Jericho Forest

I was walking the beach just south of there a few weeks later and thought I found part of the black astronaut but it was just an old radiator hose.


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Whats the official drink of Nasa? Sprite, because they can't get 7 Up

Beats the shit out of being on the Challenger I guess... :2 cents:

Hmm, i was only 5 years old when it happened...

I was working in an insurance company near San Francisco. Someone got a call saying the shuttle had blown up, and we crowded into a conference room that had a TV to watch the news.

Haha, we're old.

I was a Junior in high school in Sarasota.

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RIP... :(

ADG

Why do they put the black man in the back of the space ship?:disgust

They thought it was a bus.

r.i.p.


:(

We watched it on TV. I was in second grade I think. It was awful! We all got sent home that day and I remember a lot of students were crying.

I don't know.. Why do they put the black man in the back of the space ship?