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re: 29 years ago today: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:35 am to ChineseBandit58
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:35 am to ChineseBandit58
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Apollo 13
I have two autographs in my office; John Young and Gene Kranz.
We ended up doing a good bit of work for John's group at JSC and I met Jeannie several times on NASA business.
Great folks.
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Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:37 am to ChineseBandit58
Awesome stories man.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:37 am to KG6
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You helped send people to the freakin' moon
yeah, bandit's experience sounds a lot more interesting than mine.
i just applied insulation to the tank and it's parts. it was more like a factory job than anything else. But, i did walk on top of a few tanks that made it into space. that's still kind of mindblowing.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:38 am to lsunurse
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I was 7 and remember we watched it on tv in our classroom....along with pretty much every other classroom in the U.S.
We didn't watch it, but I remember the principal walking into our classroom and telling our teacher. She was holding back tears as they walked her out. Turns out, one of the astronauts on board was her cousin.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:45 am to LSUTygerFan
Reagan's best IMHO.
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"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:45 am to LSUTygerFan
i was working a work-study job in the LSU Dept of Entomology, 5th floor life sciences bldg. The professor came in and grabbed me to go to his office and watch the replay. Everyone was shocked.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:46 am to VetteGuy
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John Young and Gene Kranz.
John was the funniest astronaut ever. When he was training for the Gemini 7/6 mission (he was backup for that) the two crews came up with the two best names ever for the two spacecraft = "Fud" and "Pucker"
It was hard to keep a straight face when they were talking = "Fud, Pucker here, do you copy?"
They never had a mixup in names - not even a giggle. All seriousness when they were training, but funny as hell when they were not.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 9:55 am
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:48 am to LSUTygerFan
Cheers and RIP to heroes Dick Scobee (USAF) and Michael J. Smith (USN) - they tried to fly that ship all the way to the ocean - without any wings.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:54 am to foshizzle
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The most heartbreaking footage is of the one of Christa's parents watching the launch and the camera catching them seeing the explosion and realizing what really happened.
This. They were too stunned to even cry, or do anything other than stare.
It was eery/creepy (hell, I don't know what to call it) when the explosion happened and people started cheering and clapping. For a few brief seconds people thought it was part of the launch. Then I think it dawned on most that this was not a good thing. And when the mission control came over the microphone and announced it was a "major malfunction" all doubt was removed. Sad
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:54 am to LSUTygerFan
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i just applied insulation to the tank and it's parts.
Everybody was a small cog in a very complex machine.
What I did was equally insignificant in the large view of things. My Apollo experience was in developing procedures and training crews for events that never happened. At least your contributions were actually used.
Apollo 13 was the crew I was closest to. And not one thing I did had any relevance whatsoever to anything they had to do. I felt completely worthless during that time.
However - as one of the engineers said after Apollo 13 = "We trained for many failures but never even considered what happened on Apollo 13. But without all that other training, we'd never have been able to cope with what actually happened on that mission."
Nobody I worked with ever expressed any hubris over being 'part of history' = we all just went to work and did our jobs every day - just like a factory worker. Only difference was the unusual intellectual brainpower that we associated with.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:59 am to ChineseBandit58
You really should have your own Q/A thread? I would be all in on that one.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:00 am to LSUTygerFan
quote:I saw it happen. I didn't know exactly what had happened. But, I was watching it go up, then, something looked wrong.
29 years ago today: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
Oh, and I don't mean I watched on TV.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 10:02 am
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:02 am to ChineseBandit58
If I didn't know any better, you almost sound like the neighbor that I drank beer with in my garage!
Little did you know that the work you did laid the base that enabled those fine astronauts to survive.
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I felt completely worthless during that time.
Little did you know that the work you did laid the base that enabled those fine astronauts to survive.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:10 am to Tiger n Austin
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:10 am to ShortyRob
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something looked wrong.
yeah, we all thought the same thing... we just didn't realize how "wrong" it had gone.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:22 am to LSUTygerFan
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:22 am to stout
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I was 6 but I still remember it pretty clearly.
Same here.
I remember feeling sad when it happened. And although we were just kids, we all knew what had happened. Such a weird feeling.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:23 am to LSUTygerFan
RIP explorers 
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:25 am to ChineseBandit58
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John was the funniest astronaut ever
Of course, the famous "low bid" comment is attributed to him.
Do you remember some of the guys having a speed shop in Clear Lake?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:41 am to LSUTygerFan
Was in a class at Charity Hospital School of Nursing. One of the school's administrators came in and told us.
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