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Challenger: The Beginning of the End

Talyn

Talyn

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The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center the morning of 28 January 1986, one of those historic events in which most people remember where they were when they heard the news. Now, 25 years later, both space and deep-sea exploration are seemingly at the end of a technological era.

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Challenger: The Beginning of the End

One who helped raise wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger 25 years ago sees a bleak future for exploration.
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I was in western Oregon at the time & still remember that day vividly.
 
I watched Challenger explode while at HS history class.
I was getting some chores started in the garage when Columbia exploded over N Tx. Heard the sonic boom of reentry/Explosion. Was wondering wtf was that and walked into the driveway and looked around. wife came out a bit later to have me come see the news station.
 
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Yep I still remember like yesterday. I worked at a Footlocker and watched it live. My high school biology teacher missed out to the teacher that went, I just about watched her die on live TV, thank God she didn't get picked.
I'll forever remember the name of the company made the SR booster/O-rings.
Morton Thiokol..... That name will be etched in my gray matter forever
 
I was in elementary school and I remember the school rolled in the TV on the stand into the hallway where all the kids including myself were sitting to watch history of the first teacher in space live on TV. I remember a few teachers crying when it happened but a lot of us were too young to fully understand what had happened.
 
10mmLife said:
I was in elementary school and I remember the school rolled in the TV on the stand into the hallway where all the kids including myself were sitting to watch history of the first teacher in space live on TV. I remember a few teachers crying when it happened but a lot of us were too young to fully understand what had happened.
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Same. TV cart, VCR underneath, and if your school AV guy/gal was smart, some kind of ratchet or retaining strap to keep the TV on the cart…
I was 9 and in grade school.
 
Ft. Benning Ga. Just back in from the field, breaking down and cleaning our gear. Had the TV on for noise, and saw it live. Told my squad to get their crap back together. By the time Battalion got their crap together told the Co.'s to do the same, all the platoons were ready to roll, in case we got put an alert. Not I.G. ****-and span but ready to go anyway. I can see it in my mind's eye just like it was yesterday, though I don't get the gut punch, even to this day, like I do when I think about 911.
 
damn young guys....

i was at home that day, watching the lift off, and saw it explode.

said to the wife, "something ain't right"...

after watching umpteen lift off's it's easy to see a problem.

oh you youngin's..??

i once saw a pterodactyl take Grog from his spot at the fire pit.

now THAT was something you DID SEE nearly every day.....just wasn't Grog all those times......
 
I was off on a vacation day that day and watched it go off. Sat stunned for a good long time. Same exact thing happened on 9/11. Had the day off and turned on the news just in time to seethe second plane hit live.

Watched the show Bermuda triangle dangerous waters and when they found that wing I told pat it was from challenger. The tiles were a dead give away.
 
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