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re: 39 years ago today...
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:24 am to Guzzlingil
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:24 am to Guzzlingil
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Where were you?
At school during lunch. The principal came on the intercom and told us what happened. She was crying. Went home and watched the news as they replayed the explosion about 1000 times. Not long after, the Challenger jokes started at school. I guess kids have always been cruel little shits.
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Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:27 am to Guzzlingil
In grad school at Auburn.
Aerospace Engineering. At least one of the professors was involved with the Shuttle program IIRC.
Sad day.
Aerospace Engineering. At least one of the professors was involved with the Shuttle program IIRC.
Sad day.
This post was edited on 1/28/25 at 10:30 am
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:32 am to Guzzlingil
Exploding in my high school sweetheart.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:32 am to Guzzlingil
Sitting in front of my tv watching in shock that it could even happen.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:34 am to Guzzlingil
First National Bank of Edinburg, Texas. I was auditing them for KPMG. Really tough day as I'm a child of NASA (dad worked there for some time) and I grew up there during the Gemini and Apollo programs. Went to school with astronaut's kids and most of the dads on our street worked at NASA.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:39 am to Guzzlingil
Goose hunting in a harvested grain field outside Lubbock. We heard a tremendous explosion in the dark. The guide got a call and informed us.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:45 am to Guzzlingil
I wasn't 4 yet so I don't remember Challenger exploding so much as I remember Discovery. The shuttle launch 2.5 years after Challenger. They took us all out of our classrooms to watch and all the teachers were nervous and holding hands. I remember it being confusing to all of us why teachers were tearing up just watching a rocket take off.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:45 am to el Gaucho
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Being alive during challenger is the generational gap between being a boomer and being a millenial
It's towards the end of Gen X
Posted on 1/28/25 at 10:47 am to Guzzlingil
I was working in the sporting goods dept at Kmart. We all went to the electronics area and watched on the tvs.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:09 am to Guzzlingil
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Where were you?
LSU fraternity house watching it on TV.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:28 am to BlackPot
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Half of me in my dads nutsack, other half in Moms vagina egg storage part.
Maybe a tad too descriptive...Next time try to say something like "I wasn't born yet."
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:45 am to Guzzlingil
I didn't realize it at the time, but the passenger compartment never exploded. It was intact and can be seen falling towards the ground. Horrific.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:52 am to LSUFreek
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I didn't realize it at the time, but the passenger compartment never exploded. It was intact and can be seen falling towards the ground. Horrific.
I didn't know about it until years later, but the crew compartment sheared off right at the bulkhead.
No one knows how long they survived or were conscious but some of the emergency systems were manually activated. It has been said that they could have survived until impact with the ocean surface... just have to pray that they were unconscious before that point.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:59 am to Guzzlingil
5th grade classroom - it was science fair day - my project was on the history of flight - from the wright brothers to a clean record for nasa - that went to hell - on a lighter note my teacher was the grandmother of my wife of 25 years....
Posted on 1/28/25 at 12:02 pm to PJinAtl
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It has been said that they could have survived until impact with the ocean surface
The crew cabin was in free fall for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. It’s horrifying to think what that would have been like.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 12:10 pm to Guzzlingil
I was home sick and watched the entire thing.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 12:21 pm to Guzzlingil
6th grade. The teacher had left us to watch in another classroom that had a television. She came back teary eyed and told the class what had happened.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 12:25 pm to BlackPot
quote:This made me laugh a lot harder than it should have
other half in Moms vagina egg storage part.
Well done.
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