Challenger Disaster: Where where you?

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I was in the fourth grade, in gifted class. We'd been learning about writing outlines for research papers and were taking turns reading out outlines in front of the class. I was the one reading when the principal announced over the loudspeaker what had happened. Being where we were in Florida, we could still see the smoke in the sky when we went to the cafeteria for lunch.

Legacy of Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1 topic

I remember the Apollo 1 Module fire on the launch pad rehearsel at Cape Canaveral on January 27, 1967. I was 12 years old at the time. The headline in my local paper read: Three die in Moonship I was in grade 7, and was non-gifted.

I remember the Challenger disaster, with the resulting curve hook cloud signalling total disintegration of the shuttle on January 28, 1986. I was taking an adult education evening class.

I remember the Columbia disaster, February 1, 2003 with the pictures of the resulting space debris resembling the starry trails of a disintegrating meteorite heading toward Earth's surface. I was working nights in a retirement home as a janitor/health care aide, and studying part time for my PSW certificate.

This is, indeed, a memorable time of year for NASA.

4th grade for me too. A television was wheeled into the classroom so we could see the news.

I was an egg in my mothers uterus.

I wasn't born then. Not as my current incarnation, that is.

I was a motorcycle courier doing a long distance job to Wells-next-the-sea,Norfolk.The clutch cable snapped on my CX500 on the way back-when I got home late that night my mum told me about the shuttle disaster.

I was working at a lumber yard in the Florida Keys, and I later sent this to President Reagan after he had said there would be no more manned flights until after the cause had been discovered and resolved:

"The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, ‘Who shall bring me down to the ground?’
"Though you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I shall bring you down, declares Yahuah."
(Obadiah 1:3-4)

I was at work when one of my co-workers announced that the Challenger blew up a short time after lift-off. Later that night I saw President Reagan's speach
eulogizing the seven lost astronauts by quoting lines from High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr.:

I was at work in Portland Maine at the time, and I wasn't aware of what had happened until I went up to the local coffee roasters to get a cup of joe for lunch when I heard a few kids who were at the establishment remark that the space shuttle had blown up, and Christa McAuliffe was dead. -- I remember the day well, it was sunny out and very cold.

I was in a high school ceramics class. A buddy and I were sort of the teacher's pets, and so we got to work ceramic wheels in the privacy of an adjacent room, which even had it's own radio. Well, we were turning clay on our wheels, and listening to music, when a special report interrupted the tunes with the news of the shuttle explosion. My friend and I stopped working, and just sat stunned.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I was in 3rd grade in new baden, Ill and my principal wheeled in tv's to each room so we could watch the news report. I did not understand what happened but knew it was bad by the way everyone was talking.

Later I learned that the space program is a a total lie and that armstrong's trip to the moon was really him hopping backwards in area 51 and the tape was put on slo mo rewind. The ppl in the chalanger were actualy killed rather than accidentally blown up. When disbelievers questioned NASA as to why there were multiple light sources in the armstrong moon landing footage, their answer was from the sun and the space ship. But that is not true because outside of the earth without special lens you cannot see the sun...it is just radiation. When they shot that back at NASA represenatives, they could not say anything to dispute that cuz they knew they were caught in a lie. I saw the interview on Nat Geo. The evidence of the manned space fights were totally BS is overwhelming...but many prefer to believe the lie out of blind patrotism.

In a classroom. They wheeled a tv into the classroom and we watched the coverage after it was announced. I remember some kid ducking his head into the room saying, "theyve seen parachutes". Which was absurd given the images.