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re: 33 years ago today. Where were you during the Challenger disaster?

Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:47 am to
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
10635 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:47 am to
Freshman in high school. Everyone was talking about it in the hall between classes
Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
14540 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:53 am to
My senior year of HS. The Principal made the announcement to the entire school. It was a stunning moment, to say the least. All of the usual whispering, etc came to a sudden stop.
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8459 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:06 am to
What is really hard to imagine is the impending dread and then the anguish of the engineers that had argued against the launch and then caved and signed off.
Posted by FLObserver
Jacksonville
Member since Nov 2005
15799 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:01 pm to
quote:

I hope this is the case. If not, how terrible must that have been?
what an awful way to die.
Posted by Coach72
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2009
1680 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:43 pm to
Stayed home "sick" from school and was watching while playing Exodus: Ultima 3 on my Atari 800XL. Surreal.
Posted by Catahoula20LSU
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2011
2868 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:57 pm to
In college at Northeast Louisiana University. That’s ULM for you young punks
Posted by msudawg1200
Central Mississippi
Member since Jun 2014
10675 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 2:06 pm to
In the PE Gym playing basketball. We had a radio blaring on the gym speakers when the news report broke in. We all stopped and listened and them some guy kept saying’” I told y’all it was going to explode. I told y’all”. We all just stood there stunned looking at one another.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19379 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 2:15 pm to
Watching it live on TV and just knew they were all dead when that thing blew up like it did. Pretty sickening to see that and know those people were killed.

Just like watching the twin towers fall on 9/11 and knowing there were going to be thousands of people dead, including so many rescue workers trying to help those folks trapped above the fire floors.
Posted by Supermoto Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2010
10481 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 2:36 pm to
In bed, hung over from a wild night of partying at SLU.
Had the TV on, eyes closed, head pounding, just listening to it...
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 2:37 pm
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