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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch on this date 20 yeas ago.
My memory of the event is that I was in high school at the time watching the launch on television when the disaster happened.
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Sixth grade for me. I was in school, when one of the teachers, who knew I was a fan of real-life space stuff, told me. I thought at first that Challenger had exploded in orbit; then I got home and saw the footage on TV, and was pretty devastated for days afterwards.
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1986... I was 5 at the time so I don't recall any of it.
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I was in Junior High and in the caffeteria when some ass kid ran up and cheerily announced "The shuttle just blew up!" I looked at the TV's that were on but mute and saw that odd shaped explosion cloud and recall not understanding what I was looking at.
...of course, it was followed by the innane jokes of the day (the Truly Tasteless books were big back then).
Equally sad is the promises on improving safety and quality inspections after the disaster- only to have almost the exact same promises repeated after the Columbia was lost. I bet Science Channel has a special on it tonight.
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I was in first grade at the time. I remember watching the news footage, but I don't think we were watching the launch live or anything.
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Der, yes. I was thinking of making a "notify the Discovery on subspace" joke and that just sorta happened.
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West coast kiddie here. We found out that morning in Junior High, during English class. I hated that teacher, but I do recall we were taken into a special room with TV and watched the news coverage of the launch. I was pretty up on the launch schedule back then. I knew it was going up that day. My reaction was more of a non-reaction. I think I just couldn't believe it...
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I was 78 days old, so I don't realy remember it.
I don't know what the coverage was like in the UK to be honest. Any one on this side of the pond remember?
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Sixth grade for me (11 years old). I happened to be home because of a teacher work day. Even then, I was very much into everything space-related, so I was really excited to finally get to see a shuttle launch "live". My parents were in disbelief when I called them at work.
The next time I watched a live (and in person this time!) launch 10 years later, I was just a bit jumpy.
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3rd Grade for me from Canada.
I think it was all over the news, the Canadian television networks were blaring all about it. I'm not exactly sure how I reacted to it, but one of the first things I wanted to know is how it exploded.... I had a very curious mind back then.....
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20 years! I remember racing out to the tv in the morning (it was probably on the morning news cause it most probably happened during our night time) and seeing what had happened. I had just turned 7. CRAP! That makes me 27! heh. Remember those space pioneers!
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Well, here I am apparently almost at middle age compared to you young folk.
20 years ago I'd have been 18.
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