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re: The Challenger exploded on this day 38 years ago...January 28, 1986.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:18 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:18 pm to RollTide1987
Challenger: The Final Flight - on NETFILX
Excellent 6-part documentary that explains everything you need/want to know with amazing archival film.
Made 2020.
Excellent 6-part documentary that explains everything you need/want to know with amazing archival film.
Made 2020.
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:26 pm to RollTide1987
National Aeronautics Scattering Administration
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:28 pm to AndyCBR
I know a guy who was on the committee investigating that explosion
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:31 pm to RollTide1987
I stayed home from school to watch. Sent President Reagan a letter and got a reply. Hate that I lost it.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:32 pm to fallguy_1978
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remember watching it explode in school.
Same. Freshman myself. We all just looked around at each other in shock for a bit then chatter started. Our history teacher just slowly got up from his desk and walked out without saying a word, hands behind his head.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:35 pm to fallguy_1978
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I remember watching it explode in school.
Yep same here. I was in 5th grade
Posted on 1/28/24 at 2:38 pm to RollTide1987
I remember it being a really big deal that Christa McAuliffe was selected for the mission. There was the nationwide search for the teacher, then the selection process, then after she was selected a lot of television interviews and interactions with students. As elementary students, we were invested over the course of a couple of years.
All of the third grade classes (and other grades) were gathered in their common areas watching it when it happened. There were gasps and then stunned silence. We were ushered back to our rooms after watching it and we were in total shock.
When the Challenger exploded, it felt like a piece of our childhood was destroyed. It was a cold welcome to the cruel world for young children.
I also remember Ronald Reagan’s speech that evening. He was truly the Great Communicator and his speech started the nation towards its healing. Those two events from the same day were seared into the collective conscience of Generation X.
Here’s President Reagan’s speech: LINK
All of the third grade classes (and other grades) were gathered in their common areas watching it when it happened. There were gasps and then stunned silence. We were ushered back to our rooms after watching it and we were in total shock.
When the Challenger exploded, it felt like a piece of our childhood was destroyed. It was a cold welcome to the cruel world for young children.
I also remember Ronald Reagan’s speech that evening. He was truly the Great Communicator and his speech started the nation towards its healing. Those two events from the same day were seared into the collective conscience of Generation X.
Here’s President Reagan’s speech: LINK
Posted on 1/28/24 at 2:40 pm to RollTide1987
I was in kindergarten. I remember they sent all of us to the playground while the teachers watched on tv.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 2:43 pm to RollTide1987
I was 7 years old watching this live in the school library. Still remember it
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:04 pm to soccerfüt
The most agonizing part was knowing they were falling and waiting to hit the water.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:13 pm to RollTide1987
I heard the bad news on a tractor radio while I was roading it down to my grandads to plow his garden.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:16 pm to Ace Midnight
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Les Miles has lost control of the space program...
Actually, he was in a movie about the Challenger:
LINK
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:21 pm to RollTide1987
Saw it on TV while having lunch in Ft. Smith Arkansas.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:22 pm to RollTide1987
The Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:23 pm to Someone
Didn’t a related disaster occur that was related to this incident?
As I recall, NASA halted the shuttle program but the company chosen that supplied the solid rocket booster fuel kept on producing the fuel. A tremendous stockpile of the volatile compound built up over time- and it was stored quite poorly.
Pepcon. 4500 metric tons of the perchlorate base.
As I recall, NASA halted the shuttle program but the company chosen that supplied the solid rocket booster fuel kept on producing the fuel. A tremendous stockpile of the volatile compound built up over time- and it was stored quite poorly.
Pepcon. 4500 metric tons of the perchlorate base.
This post was edited on 1/28/24 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:27 pm to RollTide1987
Back then, you could write to NASA and they'd send you a big package of pamphlets, fact charts, posters and an 8×10 of the current/next mission of astronauts. Still have that Challenger crew one along with a bunch of others.
Seeing an Atlantis launched was awesome. Pretty inspiring to watch.
Seeing an Atlantis launched was awesome. Pretty inspiring to watch.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:36 pm to RollTide1987
Ah a good ol thread where everyone details where they were when an event took place instead of discussing the actual event.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:45 pm to RollTide1987
Gives me chills every time I see it.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 4:02 pm to RollTide1987
Barbara Morgan was the backup teacher for this ill fated mission. To honor Christa McAuliffe and the crew, she left teaching to become a full time astronaut. She was part of the crew that flew on STS 118.
This post was edited on 1/28/24 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 1/28/24 at 4:18 pm to RollTide1987
A coworker heard about it on the radio. Then we spent the day huddled around a small black and white TV watching. One of those …where were you when you heard moments.
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