Author Topic: Challenger accident (Read 1184 times)

Chairboy · « **on:** January 28, 2005, 10:36:08 AM »

The shuttle Challenger broke up exactly 19 years ago, seventy two seconds after launch.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:07:49 AM »

I watched it happen live, which is probably why I am completely jaded to disaster/injury/death footage.

soda72 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:09:43 AM »

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:19:46 AM »

I was home sick from school watching channel 2, sitting in a bean bag chair, my first thought was, what movie is this?

Sad day.

jEEZY · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:24:57 AM »

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Originally posted by GtoRA2
I was home sick from school watching channel 2, sitting in a bean bag chair, my first thought was, what movie is this?

Sad day.

Interesting I was home (in Milpitas) sick as well--thinking jeez I never saw the shuttle do that before.

SOB · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:43:47 AM »

Third grade, watched it in class. Had no idea what was going on.

Urchin · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:49:07 AM »

Same here... was sitting in school watching it on TV when it went up. Hell if I can remember what grade I was in though... it was elementary school though.

Yeager · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:59:17 AM »

To the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51-L:

Dick Scobee
Mike Smith
Judy Resnik
Ron McNair
Ellis Onizuka
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe

I remember you today as you were then!

mosgood · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:59:21 AM »

I was in computer class in H.S.

Some kid walked in and said "Hey, the space shuttle just blew up!"

We all thought he was lieing. it was totally unimaginable to us that it could happen.

eagl · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:04:55 PM »

I heard it live on the radio, tuned in to the first replays 30 seconds later. I was home from school, sick with a mild case of the flu, so I got to see the entire day's reporting. Sad.

The thing is, I'd already bought into the honor and serving your country crap so it only helped to cement my desire to join up and try to be a fighter pilot. Since then, I've seen friends die and you know, it still sucks but the duty honor country thing doesn't go away. I think some people get it and some people don't. Those that do pack up and move west on occasion, those that don't stay home and hand in their guns, hoping somehow they won't be the ones chosen to go to the internment camp this time.

Reschke · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:20:09 PM »

Sophmore year of high school sitting in Physiology class and a teacher Ms. Godwin came running down the hall screaming that the Challenger had just blown up. Everyone thought she was lying because that was the way she was.

~~crew you are not forgotten!~~

rpm · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:47:42 PM »

I was on the air at KWCS-FM and watching it live on TV. Billy Joe Royal's "Burned Like a Rocket" was playing. I yanked it and removed it from our playlist.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:47:49 PM »

I was sitting in Senior Physics class when the principal made the announcement. We all thought "Cool, we gotta see this" and ran home during lunch to watch the footage. It was only then that the tragedy of the whole event took hold and we quickly realized that there were no survivors.

Seeing the footage of the family members watching the disaster unfold from the launch site was so very sad.

slimm50 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:59:26 PM »

<---Was working for Standard Oil in Houston. Heard someone in the hall outside my office talkin about it and went into a conference room to watch the news. Rest of the day was a waste, for me.

koda76 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2005, 01:01:24 PM »

Was bricking the front of a lawyers garage in denton tx with a couple of buds when it came over the radio....we just hung our heads.....very sad day