Space Shuttle Challenger - 25 Years Ago Today

[Tangerine]

Can't believe it's been that long.

Personally, this was the first "JFK" type moment in my life - one I will always remember in vivid detail.

Anyone else have a real connection to this event?

 

[cam elle toe]

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[Guyzerr]

Anyone else have a real connection to this event?

Other than be amazed every time the thing blasts off or I see a documentary on it. It's an amazing piece of machinery and I'll hate to see it mothballed.

I do have a connection or fond memories of Alan Sheppard, John Glenn's flight as well as mans first step on the moon. :24: Armstrong did that on my 16th birthday. Does that count?

Back in the " old days " almost everybody was glued to the tv to watch a blast off and listen to Walter Cronkite. Today you hardly hear about it until it's gone up. Sad isn't it. I wonder what our life would be like without the space program. We have so many things now that were invented as a direct result of it.

 

[Tangerine]

Other than be amazed every time the thing blasts off or I see a documentary on it. It's an amazing piece of machinery and I'll hate to see it mothballed.

I do have a connection or fond memories of Alan Sheppard, John Glenn's flight as well as mans first step on the moon. :24: Armstrong did that on my 16th birthday. Does that count?

Back in the " old days " almost everybody was glued to the tv to watch a blast off and listen to Walter Cronkite. Today you hardly hear about it until it's gone up. Sad isn't it. I wonder what our life would be like without the space program. We have so many things now that were invented as a direct result of it.

Damn skippy! I can't imagine life without Tang or Velcro!

 

[GoldDust Woman]

Challenger exploded on the 28th of January, I thought? :confused

 

[Tangerine]

Challenger exploded on the 28th of January, I thought? :confused

So I was on Australia time - OOps! I was reminded because of a piece I saw on the news.

 

[Guyzerr]

Damn skippy! I can't imagine life without Tang or Velcro!

Tang... I haven't had Tang for years. I loved that stuff.

Check this out....

http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1744

http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs.htm

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070711113218AADFSJL

Imagine what they could have done with a computer like what you use now?

 

[GoldDust Woman]

Can't believe it's been that long.

Personally, this was the first "JFK" type moment in my life - one I will always remember in vivid detail.

Anyone else have a real connection to this event?

I lived by Johnson Space Center when it all happened. :nod:

 

[GoldDust Woman]

It was a sad day, that's for sure.

 

[Guyzerr]

Challenger exploded on the 28th of January, I thought? :confused

You thought right. I was at work and someone ran into my office and told me. I turned on my radio and was horrified. I'll never forget that moment.

 

[Guyzerr]

and did I screw up with this thread. I totally didn't realize what it was about until GD Woman chimed up.

 

[Tangerine]

Get this...

I had just taken over as the News Director for my college radio station. Up until that point, we had broadcast every shuttle launch live. We were debating NOT doing it that morning, because they had become so "routine" and always without incident. I decided to go ahead and carry the broadcast, and told my staff that "I worry that we've been too lucky. Could you imagine if one of these just blew up some time?"

Three hours later one of my guys came to my classroom to get me out of class. He looked like he'd seen a ghost. He told me what happened, and I laughed. I was SO convinced they were pulling a fast one on me. Imagine how I felt when I got to the studio and realized they weren't kidding...

 

[USF Sam]

I was coming off guard duty and the SOG told us.

Didn't dawn on us til a few minutes later that the civilian teacher was on that one.

 

[AUFred]

I was at work when I got a phone call about it. I went home at lunch they must have played the video almost as many times as the 911 plane crashes. Burned a vivid memory for sure.

 

[Peter Parka]

Cant believe it's been that long. Remember watching it live as a kid, I believe it was on just after school, over here. Remember a lot of kids the next day at school being upset by it.

 

[edgray]

yeah I remember being pretty upset by this: I was obsessed with space as a kid, and always wanted to go up there... it was most upsetting.

 

[Tuffdisc]

I am obsessed by the space shuttle, nice design and the re-usability of the craft. I'm trying my best to get to see the last launch this year. I was upset when my fave dj used the NASA acronym for some joke =/

 

[Staci]

i was in 5th grade and we were watching it......burned into memory for sure

 

[MoonOwl]

i was in 5th grade and we were watching it......burned into memory for sure

Oh great. Now I feel old.

Both Challenger & Columbia were devastating.

 

[pjbleek]

Twentyfive years ago...

The shuttle disaster was one of those days in which you never forget. I go to the same University that Christa Mcauliffe went. She was to be the first teacher ever in space, this day we remember her and her crew, enclosed is the broadcast of that fateful day....I'll never forget where I was...let us never forget those brave people who travel to space...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE
they were to reach for the stars...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKIZ7j20EA&feature=related