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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:11 am to LSUTygerFan
I wasn't even alive. Feel old?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:11 am to LSUTygerFan
I saw it go down in my kindergarten class. 
A couple of weeks ago I was going through some old stuff from my parent's house and found a Challenger fridge magnet from when I was a kid.
A couple of weeks ago I was going through some old stuff from my parent's house and found a Challenger fridge magnet from when I was a kid.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:13 am to TigersSEC2010
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I wasn't even alive. Feel old?
i was 24 then so... yeah.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:16 am to LSUTygerFan
What is even more horrifying is that the astronaut's cabin remained intact after the explosion. They were all believed to be alive when they hit the water. The best anyone can hope for is that they were unconscious due to the cabin depressurizing.
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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:18 am to CurDog
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we watched it on tv in our classroom....along with pretty much every other classroom in the U.S.
Exclusive of this event, I have many fond memories of my class gathering around a TV to watch a launch.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:20 am to LSUTygerFan
There was a good Freakonomics podcast about an engineer that warned them that it was risky to launch because the O-Rings had not been tested anywhere near that low of a temperature. They thought there was too much riding on the launch to delay it again, so they went forth anyways. Unfortunately he was correct. A tragedy that could have been avoided.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 8:48 am
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:22 am to buckeye_vol
Sitting in my dorm room in Kirby Smith at lsu skipping class with a hangover when this happened.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:26 am to LSUTygerFan
I wasn't alive, but I was in high school for the Challenger. I remember seeing that there supposed to be a sonic boom as it would pass over where I lived. I had a baseball game that day and commented that I never heard the boom. Went home and saw on the news that it never made it past Texas. Couldn't imagine being involved with the project in general.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:27 am to LSUTygerFan
Can't believe that was 29 years ago. I was in seventh grade at the time.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:29 am to buckeye_vol
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There was a good Freakonomics podcast about a engineer that warned them that it was risky to launch because the O-Rings had not been tested anywhere near that low of a temperature. They thought there was too much riding on the launch to delay it again, so they went forth anyways. Unfortunately he was correct. A tragedy that could have been avoided.
This.
I knew an engineer related to the SRB issue who (after the fact) had so much self-guilt that he checked himself out. There are still folks around with Challenger and Columbia-related failure guilt. Tragic event.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:32 am to htownjeep
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There were 9 STS missions in 1985 alone. The year before the tragedy.
That's crazy. I guess at that age I thought they only launched when we saw them on TV.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:33 am to buckeye_vol
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engineer that warned them that it was risky to launch because the O-Rings had not been tested anywhere near that low of a temperature. They thought there was too much riding on the launch to delay it again, so they went forth anyways. Unfortunately he was correct.
True story - Thiokol didn't want to approve the launch because of the temperature. NASA leaned on them hard to get an OK for the launch.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:35 am to LSUTygerFan
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:37 am to KG6
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Challenger. I remember seeing that there supposed to be a sonic boom as it would pass over where I lived.
You must be talking about Columbia. That is the one that came apart on re-entry in 2003.
Challenger was lost on launch in 1986.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:38 am to ChineseBandit58
Yeah. Mixed them up.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:42 am to mikelbr
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That's crazy. I guess at that age I thought they only launched when we saw them on TV.
In '85 they had got to the point where it was kind of ho-hum. The only reason a lot of people in here saw it live in school because this was going to be the first teacher in space. It was a huge deal for teachers and schools and they were very excited.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:48 am to htownjeep
yeah, the fact that classrooms around the country were watching because there was a teacher on board made an already tragic situation even more tragic.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:48 am to ChineseBandit58
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Thiokol didn't want to approve the launch because of the temperature. NASA leaned on them hard to get an OK for the launch.
Sad to hear the details and how it could have been prevented. Makes you wonder what they were thinking when you see photos taken hours before takeoff.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:50 am to htownjeep
Holy.shite. never seen those before
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