Do you remember the Challenger disaster? [Archive]

Mike Teacher

01-25-2006, 11:19 AM

It's coming up on the 20th Anniversary of the Challenger disaster; 28 Jan 1986So, keeping my usual long boring posts, short [but always still boring]...Where were you when Challenger blew up? 20 years means some of you are young enough to not remember at all, or werent hatched yet. And wow it means i'm getting old coz I walked out of a college class to hear the news.Anyway, do ya remember?<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster" target="_blank">Wikipedia Link</a>

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mikeyboy

01-25-2006, 11:23 AM

I was in a high school genetics class, and someone came in to tell the class the news.  The teacher brought out a television and we watched the coverage.  It's a fairly mundane story, but it's still such a vivid memory.

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01-25-2006, 11:31 AM

I was in 4th grade, making up a test I missed while the rest of my
class went to watch the launch on TV in the classroom next door. 
About 15 minutes after they left, they came back in looking confused,
and one of my friends told me "It blew up."  They dismissed the
entire school for the day shortly afterwards. 

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01-25-2006, 11:32 AM

I was a sophmore in college.  I went back to my dorm room around lunch time an there were a bunch of people in the lounge watching the whole thing on TV.  Cindy Carr must have told me about it first because she's the only person I remember out of all the people that were there.

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kevcala

01-25-2006, 11:36 AM

I was 9, and I had just come home from school for lunch.  I remember my mother giving me my lunch then saying something about the launch.  We both watched it, live (I think) on this little 7 inch tv, and I remember, egotistically, not realizing the impact of what happened. I think this is my first 'frozen in time' memory as far as I can tell. 

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01-25-2006, 11:36 AM

I was 3, I'm pretty sure I just got done pooping myself and coloring on the walls when I heard the news.

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01-25-2006, 11:36 AM

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Furtherman

01-25-2006, 11:38 AM

I was watching it with my 7th Grade class on the new big screen TV in the music room.The sent us home shortly thereafter.Remember the rumors?  "They found an apple she brought along floating in the ocean!"

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01-25-2006, 11:43 AM

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 I was a year and a half old. 

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01-25-2006, 11:48 AM

remember it? I still jerk off to the footage...aww man, 2 soon? 

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Jennitalia

01-25-2006, 11:53 AM

I was in 7th grade in planetarium class and our teacher told us.  I dont think we were allowed to watch it on tv.

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01-25-2006, 11:56 AM

this is actually one of my earliest memories. I was 4 and a half years old when this happened, and i just remember everyone around me being so upset and making such a big deal about it. 

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01-25-2006, 11:59 AM

it was my 7th birthday and my guess is that i was too young and self absorbed to really pay attention.

but i do remember thinking that i'd never want to go into space until NASA proved to me that they finally have their shit straightened out.

oh and the only thing i can recall from it was the female teacher that was on board. the other victims kinda got the shaft.

Judge Smails

01-25-2006, 12:13 PM

I was a junior in high school and me and some friends were studying for a chemistry mid-term when this kid runs in to tell us that the space shuttle just exploded.  That particular kid was notorius for telling lies and making up stories.  So we all threw shit at him, told him to shut the fuck up and chased him out of study hall.I didn't actually confirm the facts or see the video until after my exam, which is probably just as well, since it would have probably affected my concentration on the test.

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badorties

01-25-2006, 12:22 PM

remember it? I still jerk off to the footage...

aww man, 2 soon?

technically, you got the twenty years covered ... still not funny though

i was in detention for a schoolyard scuffle ... they rolled in the huge b&w TV and let us watch it ...

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Yosammity

01-25-2006, 12:25 PM

I was in 7th grade.  I was in school when it happened but I used to go home for lunch and found out about it then.

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FUNKMAN

01-25-2006, 12:46 PM

don't remember what i was doing but i rememeber thinking whether they were blown apart from the explosion or whether their bodies were intact and flying through the air and eventually to the ground/water and they then died on impact...

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booster11373

01-25-2006, 12:47 PM

7th grade I remeber President Reagen on TV adressing the nation afterwards

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01-25-2006, 12:49 PM

Judge Smails

01-25-2006, 12:49 PM

quote: I remeber President Reagen on TV adressing the nation afterwards "They slipped the surly bounds of earth, to touch the face of god." 

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Dirtybird12

01-25-2006, 01:00 PM

I may be wrong...but Im pretty sure Jerry from Mars wrote that speach for Double R

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FUNKMAN

01-25-2006, 01:15 PM

quote: or whether their bodies were intact and flying through the air and eventually to the ground/water and they then died on impact... I seem to recall that the offical investigation into the incident came to that conclusionseveral days after the first WTC Bombing when they used the rental truck in the underground garage i had an idea for a book and was telling it to coworkers and friends. the book idea was about a couple of hijacked planes heading for new york city. my idea had them coming in from Europe and one had already crashed onto one of the main avenues and the other was on it's way with over 300 people on board. i remember thinking about how the president would have to make a decision to sacrafice the 300 for possibly more on the ground. i remember telling everyone how the terrorist organizations could easily recruit pilots who had been in the military...when 9/11 happened i worked midnights and woke around 10:30 a.m to the radio alarm which i forgot to unset. the first thing i heard was " WTC taken down by hijacked airplanes ". it was a surreal momentobviously it was just kind of an unlucky thought/guess but it freaked me out

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Furtherman

01-25-2006, 01:19 PM

quote: several days after the first WTC Bombing when they used the rental truck in the underground garage i had an idea for a book and was telling it to coworkers and friends. the book idea was about a couple of hijacked planes heading for new york city. my idea had them coming in from Europe and one had already crashed onto one of the main avenues and the other was on it's way with over 300 people on board. i remember thinking about how the president would have to make a decision to sacrafice the 300 for possibly more on the ground. i remember telling everyone how the terrorist organizations could easily recruit pilots who had been in the military... That sounds like an <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116253/" target="_blank">executive decision.</a>  

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ADF

01-25-2006, 01:19 PM

I was 13 and I heard about it in school, but I didn't get to watch the footage until after I got home.  What I remember most about the incident were all the Challenger jokes.  I think they started about 37 minutes after the explosion. 

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01-25-2006, 01:22 PM

3rd grade, Miss Maffia came into the classroom after lunch and every was fucking around standing on desks and shit....she looked like she saw a ghost and every stopped and sat down, although she didn't scream and turn the lights on and off like she usually did. She said there was a problem on the shuttle and we need to say a prayer for the teacher and the astronauts on board...because they need it right now (it was a catholic school in Queens, complete with uniforms and all) We got out early and they let us go home and i found out later what happened.   "The future is not free: the story of all human progress is one of a struggle against all odds. We learned again that this America, which Abraham Lincoln called the last, best hope of man on Earth, was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than was expected or required and who gave it little thought of worldly reward." - President Ronald Reagan January 31, 1986 

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BoondockSaint

01-25-2006, 01:25 PM

I was in fifth grade and we were watching it on t.v.  I remember when it exploded my friend said "Holy Shit!"  The whole class just stared at the teacher but she just stared at the t.v. I think that's when it sunk in to all of the magnitude of what had happenend.

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Judge Smails

01-25-2006, 01:30 PM

quote: I may be wrong...but Im pretty sure Jerry from Mars wrote that speach for Double R You can say what you want about Ronnie Reagan, but when he gave a speech he knew how to move and inspire people.  Not like the mush-mouth doofus we have now.  (Except for one 10 second sound-bite from ground zero.)As for shuttle jokes - I remember the Need Another Seven Astronauts one.   

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ADF

01-25-2006, 01:39 PM

The one I remember goes a little something like this..Q- How many astronauts can you fit in a Volkswagon Beetle?A- Eleven... two in the front, two in the back, and seven in the ashtray. 

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Mike Teacher

01-25-2006, 02:05 PM

yeah the jokes started within hours.'I said BUD Light...''Whats this switch do?...'

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Mike Teacher

01-25-2006, 02:16 PM

oh yeah for the conspiracy theorists, the fatalities in the manned USA space progam all took place in a six day window in their respective years, last week of Jan/first day of Feb:Apollo 1 Fire: 27 Jan 1967Challenger: 28 Jan 1986Colombia: 1 Feb 2003maybe theres something up there this time of year people dont want us to know about.damn you art bell.

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Death Metal Moe

01-25-2006, 02:20 PM

I do remember how excited people were that a teacher was going into space.  I forget what grade I was in and I'm not going to bother doing the backwards math, but I was 8.  I didn't see it in class, heard about it when I got home.I was so young I hardly remember any real emotions from the tragedy, I just remember it happening.  And yes, I remember there being some pretty lame Challenger jokes too.What I will never forget about the event is that is when I found out what the term "tissue" meant.  I heard on the news that they would have to identify the bodies by tissue samples on wreckage, and I was thinking Kleenex.  My parents had to explain to me that tissue also meant flesh and that there wasn't much left of the poor people in the shuttle.Hey, everybody finds out about gruesome shit sooner or later.

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01-25-2006, 03:19 PM

I was in Mrs. DeLotto's 6th grade classroom at St. Christopher's.  She came back from lunch early & let the 8th grader watching us for lunchbreak go back to her classroom.  She wasn't even clear what had happened yet, "I think it blew up..." was all she said.  There was an announcement over the PA later & we had a moment of silent prayer.Less than a week later, one of my best friends was suspended for mumbling under his breath at the other 6th grade teacher, "I knew we should have voted you onto that ship."

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WhistlePig

01-25-2006, 03:28 PM

I was working as a maid at a local fleabag motel and had the launch on the tv
while I was cleaning the room. I remember being annoyed because my soap opera
was pre-empted (hey, I was young). I was cleaning the bathroom when I heard
the confusion on the tv, and came out to see those awful smoke trails in the sky
and the shocked look on the faces in the crowd. Sad, sad day.

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01-25-2006, 03:37 PM

quote:I was in a high school genetics class, and someone came in to tell the class the news. The teacher brought out a television and we watched the coverage. It's a fairly mundane story, but it's still such a vivid memory.

I guess we're about the same age Mikey. I was in High School and I remember one of the science geeks running down the hallway crying, and then someone told me what happened. 

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Hottub

01-25-2006, 03:42 PM

I had to wait until I got home, but this image is permanently etched into my mind,<img src="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9610/10/feynmen/challenger.explosion.lg.jpg" border="0" />Along with a few others. Some as horrific as this, some are quite pleasant.What are some of the good moments you remember?

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01-25-2006, 03:42 PM

It was my junior year of college.  I remember cheap beer, dirt weed, casual sex and the shuttle blowing up.  In that order.

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booster11373

01-25-2006, 03:44 PM

This topic has brought back some memorys from that day.I remember the smoke trails from one of the side booster rockets that sort of went off in all directions, and the picture just holding on that image for like 10 min'sWas Cronkite still on the air then? I sort of remember seeing Peter Jennings

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booster11373

01-25-2006, 03:45 PM

quote: <img src="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9610/10/feynmen/challenger.explosion.lg.jpg" border="0" />This the shot i mentioned exactly 

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libbyzibby

01-25-2006, 03:52 PM

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furie

01-25-2006, 04:33 PM

i was in the 7th grade; sitting in the library of my school, working on an apple IIc, when an 8th grader named marchello came in and told us the news.

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01-25-2006, 05:15 PM

I was in Photography school in Pittsburg. I stepped out of the bathroom, after a shower before class, and my roomie was watching The Price is Right (on the one channel we could pick up) and they interupted it for the Challenger explosion. By the time I got to class about an hour later, people were already telling the same space shuttle jokes that were being told around the country. I can't understand how they could get those jokes around so quick pre-internet.

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01-25-2006, 06:38 PM

I was 21 years old. I was working at a gold mine in northern Nevada as a geologic technician and a was working in the office on maps. The metallurgist working in the office next to me had the radio on and it came on over the news.It's fucking amazing we even heard it because he was the only one able to get any sort of reception on his radio and we were out in the middle of the desert where any sort of reception was nil at best.

ThePointer

01-25-2006, 06:43 PM

I had just started on a trading desk and as most  we had 3 TV sets on the desk and one was set to watch the lift off.  as the liftoff progressed people would watch it.  When the explosion occured, you could hear a pin drop. Everyone was in silence shocked.  But keeping in style about 5 minutes later the phone lines from the exchange floors begin ringing and the jokes began.  Some were cruel and some were funny.  I still remeber the first joke."what do Christa MacCauliffe and Donna Rice  have in common?"They both went down on the Challenger " 

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01-25-2006, 08:09 PM

I was 15 and at home due to a snow day I think. Cause I was watching the launch live on tv.I was soo into the space shuttle and stuff that I had set my watch to military time and even slept outside once at a meet in Florida to catch the liftoff of an earlier shuttle launch at 3 or 4 am.

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01-25-2006, 11:10 PM

I was a sophomore in high school and was home sick that day.  I watched the thing live.I'll never forget the look on the faces of the families watching the launch -- how they didn't know (or accept) right away that the shuttle had disintegrated.

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01-26-2006, 09:31 AM

I was only in 1st grade so I don't remember much when it happened But living in FLA at the time......  and my older brother came home from school really shaken his class watched it on TV.  It was strange seeing older brother so shook up.

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01-26-2006, 02:36 PM

Today was the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire, a truly fucked up event. CNN has a link<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/26/nasa.remembrance.ap/index.html" target="_blank">NASA remembers fallen astronauts</a>and it looks like CNN will be showing a thing on McAuliffe this upcoming weekend<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/25/christa.mcauliffe.ap/index.html" target="_blank">McAuliffe remembered 20 years later</a>

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sr71blackbird

01-26-2006, 04:04 PM

I was in my first year of college and had a job after school at this office and this woman from an office next door runs in screaming that it blew up, and we were like..what?  What are you talking about?  We put on the radio and tv and saw it was true.  Everytime there is a major event, you always remember the moment you hear with great detail.  Like 911, you'll never forget that!

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01-26-2006, 11:38 PM

I was in 8th grade lining up to leave the cafeteria when my principal, Sister Noela totally flipped out and started babbling that the shuttle exploded, and it was because we weren't behaving...I can't believe I'm not permanently scarred from being taught by those penguins...They were all whacked out of their minds...It must have been all the pressure from being "married" to Jesus...Still don't understand that.

Heather 8

01-27-2006, 07:40 AM

Does anyone else remember the "very special" Punky Brewster
that came out shortly after the disaster?  IIRC, Punky and her
classmates watched the launch and subsequent destruction of the
shuttle.  Apparently, Punky had aspirations of being an
astronaut(!), but changed her mind after the disaster.  Then good
old Buzz Aldrin, who, I guess had nothing better to do, comes in and
saves the day, telling Punky not to give up her dreams. ...yeah, I figured I was the only one.  Stupid trivial childhood memories. 

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Furtherman

01-27-2006, 07:43 AM

quote: Does anyone else remember the "very special" Punky Brewster that came out shortly after the disaster?   I don't remember that one.  Only the fucking hilariuos "kid in an abandoned refridgerator" special! 

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01-27-2006, 07:44 AM

Apparently I was watching it in school, but damned if I can remember.  I think I was distracted by the Bears kicking all kinds of ass that year.

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01-27-2006, 07:50 AM

quote:quote: Does anyone else remember the "very special" Punky Brewster that came out shortly after the disaster? I don't remember that one. Only the fucking hilariuos "kid in an abandoned refridgerator" special! 

 
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01-27-2006, 06:08 PM

The only thing I remeber was I was either in the 11th or 12th grade and I was taking a 1/2 day and going into school late. I gathered up all of my books and just when I was heading out the door I just happened to glance up at the T.V. and that's when it happened live. I just stood there speechless and coudn't believe what I saw. It just didn't seem real: like it was a movie oe something. I turned to my brother and said "did you just see what I saw?!?!" and he was just in shock as I was. I don't remember how things went when I went to school that day or any other day thereafter. It's just crazy seeing something like that live...

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INFOSTUD

01-27-2006, 07:01 PM

I was fresh out of college and working for Lockheed at the time. Lockheed had an entire division dedicated to Mission Specialists for the Space Shuttle. We never missed a live Shuttle launch. I remember it like it was yesterday.Tragic loss of those astronauts lives--and a tragic loss of the last Shuttle. Rest In Peace you brave souls. I've been to NASA several times and I'm always awestruck at the USA Space Program.Anyone you thinks we've wasted time and money going to space knows nothing. 

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LordRuckus

01-27-2006, 10:26 PM

I was in the 4th grade, I just walked home from school and it was on the TV at my grandparents house.  Of course I had no idea what was actually going on at the time.  I believe I spent the afternoon drawing a diagram of an ear for school.  I'm glad I learned about the ear.

legroommusic

01-28-2006, 04:56 AM

remember it well. fifth grade during social studies, the kids in my class were being really rowdy and the school principal came in through the doors talking about some tragedy. At the time I thought she was talking about how bad all the students were and that we were in trouble. then she proceeded to bring in the television so we could watch the news. I remember not really feeling anything at the time, but I could see that the nuns and some of the teachers were moved by the tragedy. I guess because of christy mcaullife being a teacher. maybe some of them knew her. They built a public school in the Jersey City heights named for christa mcaullife. I think when I first passed by the school it was the first time I really felt any emotion about the tragedy. that was the late nineties.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

01-28-2006, 02:43 PM

I was a freshman in college and was watching it on tv in my dorm room. Unbelievable.

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01-29-2006, 03:50 PM

I was working for the phone company.The woman sitting next to me was talking to her husband.He told her what was happening at that moment.Management turned on the TV.I will NEVER forget the group hugs and the tears.

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SpicyMcHaggis

01-31-2006, 05:11 AM

Being born on that day is somewhat of an ice breaker for me during conversation.

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01-31-2006, 07:13 AM

I was in 3rd grade, and I remember it vividly because we had to write letters to the astronauts as a class.  Then when the Challenger exploded all of us kids were pretty devastated. 

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Mike Teacher

01-31-2006, 09:49 AM

Ok they printed it late but hey, it's me:<a href="http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060131/OPINION/601310327/1030" target="_blank">Asbury Park Press: Challenger at 20 by me me me</a>

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02-01-2006, 05:38 PM

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frankieNJ

02-03-2006, 09:19 AM

Mike my man glad u covered this. Some news coverage on that day. It was

Furtherman

02-03-2006, 09:50 AM

quote: Ok they printed it late but hey, it's me:<a href="http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060131/OPINION/601310327/1030" target="_blank">Asbury Park Press: Challenger at 20 by me me me</a> I'm glad I saw this.  Great article Mike!

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PaulF

02-04-2006, 08:30 PM

It was my senior year of high school, and having just gotten early acceptance  to the aerospace program at BU, I couldn't miss a launch, so my friend and I left school to go to his house to watch on TV. We sat there stunned.

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02-04-2006, 08:41 PM

And then...?

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PaulF

02-04-2006, 09:04 PM

Actually, it had a long-term effect on me because it put a damper on job opportunities for aerospace engineers for a while. Ended up changing majors and went into radio and music for a while. Now I'm a professional computer geek. Always really wanted to be able to say 'Yes' to the question "What are you, a rocket scientist?"It also cost my brother a job. He was working for one of the shuttle contractors as an electronics tech. A friend of the family also lost his job as a payload engineer on the program.

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02-05-2006, 07:29 AM

I was like in the third grade.  I did not go to school that day because I was a little ill.  I saw it live on tv.  I told my mother.  She did not give a crap.   I was kinda upset.

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