Thirty years ago...

Truly shocking, and also heart-rending seeing the reactions on the faces of those family members watching, goodness me, what they must have been going through..
The sad thing about this is that it could have all been avoided, had management listened to the engineers, who knew about the problem with the O-rings.

I remember watching the launch on TV. There are some incidents which remain burned into your memory, and shock you to the very core. The other shocking one being 9/11.

 

I didn't exist yet.

 

I was in the motor pool, Camp Casey Korea. Had just got back from the field and grabbed a Stars&Stripes and it was the headlines. Sad day.

 

I was on the destroyer USS John Young at sea when the Captain announced it. Very somber day for the crew.

 

I was in Algebra 2 class in high school (junior year) when the audio from the broadcast came over our PA system.

 

I can remember seeing it happen on TV, I don't recall where I was......
an accident with an 18 wheeler running over my motorcycle Jan '08 ended a lot of memories....
and killed my short term memory......

but, I can remember some things, and that is one I can see in my mind's eye....
like the one that came apart over Texas and scattered parts of it from New Mexico to Louisiana....

The Twin Towers going down.... that event, I can recall the entire day..... I was working in Tempe, AZ in fire station #271 fixing the laptop dispatch rig on a fire truck......

I walked back into the lobby to get a drink of cold water, and the TV was blaring and the Talking Heads were yelling The Twin Towers are falling down????

that ended work for that day..... I sat down on the couch dumb founded wondering what in the hell????

 

Picking up a cat from the vet. Daughter heard the announcement and went crazy. She loved the shuttles - 3rd grade at the time.

In fact, she did all kinds of small odd jobs for extra and donated $10.00 for the Endeavor.

 

I was 14. I always stayed home from school on launch days. (I also watched the Enterprise launch off the back of the 747) I watched it live as it happened. I cried. Oddly I was also home and also watching live when the twin towers fell. I was holding my 3 month old son feeding him when that happened. I cried.

 

The town got buzzed by the Enterprise. The Vulcan worked at TRWonderful.

 

I was in grade school, watching the launch live. I remember the impact it had on the whole class, especially the teacher. I remember having the same weird feeling I had when I heard about the world trade center on 9/11, disbelief, the feeling like that only happens in movies, etc.

 

I've had this - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=547498 - since it first came out. I keep it in memory of the Challenger and Columbia.

It's also in some kind of beta for those that are interested.
http://mcdavis.dreamhosters.com/nnlopenbeta/

 

I was a senior in high school in Physics class. They announced it on the intercom and we all just looked at each other not knowing the profound impact it would have on the country and world.

I went home turned on the TV and watched the news pretty much all night. We then talked and discussed the impact in Humanities class, since there was a teacher on board. My teacher liked the picture of all 7 astronauts and felt all 7 should be remembered that way.

I watched all the launches of the space shuttle since 1981 when it first launched.