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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on January 28, 2003, 07:05:55 PM
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(http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/10/02/shuttle.overview/challenger.jpg)
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I was watching it live on TV when it happened:(
MiniD
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Me too. I came in late to homeroom and my teacher just about had a heart attack when I told her why.
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Truly sad and definitely avoidable :mad:
Power to the engineers I say!
Daniel
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I was watching it as well live, I skipped school with a "sore throat", and saw it all go down. I had perfect attendance for the rest of my years in school.
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We were watching it in school. Horrible indeed.
SOB
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You guys make me feel old, I had just gotten off the graveyard shift..
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I was on duty at the airport that day. I saw it happen along with the airport manager and other officers on shift. Still in shock just moments after the tragedy, I walked out of the room and headed for the flagpole in front of the terminal. I quickly lowered the flag, then slowly raised it to the half-staff position. I’ll never forget people walking up to the terminal on the sidewalk; they saw the flag changing to half-staff and asked who died?
I remember every moment like it was yesterday.
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i was driving 2 blocks from work to a bar for lunch when it happened , sat down at the bar and they were playing it over and over on TV, i asked the bartender "what happened?" she said 'the rocket blew up"...it was not a good lunch
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I was teaching a special education science class. We were gathered round the TV watching the launch. I don't think anything was accomplished the rest of the day.
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My mother told me that would be my generation's "Kennedy" ... of course that was before 9/11.
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I was outside my 1st grade classroom with the rest of my class watching it go into the sky. Living close to the cape every launch was exciting ,and we always went to watch them. like every kid i had a dream to work in space , and be a famous explorer. So these events were truely special for me at least. We knew that this mission had a teacher on it , and as it exploded and the wreckage fell to earth 99 percent of my class cheered and claped because there was one less teacher in the world and that benefited them. while i balled my eyes out understanding what the loss really ment along with my teacher at the time. From that day on i have assumed that the intentions of my fellow americans is always to better themselves over their community. When i refect upon this horrible event i can only think of how a child always shows his/her true feeling's , and that these people are now in their 20's, and are most likely as selfish and inconsiderate of their fellow human beings as ever.
That is what i took from that day.
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I was in the woods on my Recce Patrolmans course. Never heard about it till more then 2 weeks after it happend.
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We were all demanding more teachers to space at school.
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I was behind the desk in the operations office at the airport, when the asst. mgr. walked in and turned on the tv - remember ir like it was a recent event.
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In Beirut, fighting the "War against Terror"
..........long before the "War" started.
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At home. Wondering if it was a big hoax.
Much like 9/11 :/
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I was teaching a special education science class. We were gathered round the TV watching the launch. I don't think anything was accomplished the rest of the day.
It was 14 degrees out with a windchill of under 10...
I stayed home cause it was too cold to work outside on the river.
I watched the launch and the explosion.
I cried.
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was working outside .. you could see the smoke trail, as usual from here, but it didn't look right. business band radio in van was going nuts 2 minutes later
ppl crying in the lunchroom watching the replay when I returned to office 10 minutes later .. sad day
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I was a sophmore in high school and they announced it on the intercom...
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I saw it.... Haven't been back to a upclose and personal launch since....:(
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I'll never forget the look on Mr. McAuliffe's face (father of teacher/astronaut Sharon McAuliffe)when the Challenger exploded. It slowly dawned on him that his daughter had just died. It was painfull to see this tradgedy happen - I felt so sorry for that guy. (His reaction was filmed live by a newscrew)
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My mom watched that live :(, and I watched John Glen take is last ride in school.
And during 9/11 I was asleep and woke up suddenly...right after the first plane hit...walked out of room to watch brothers and mom watching it unfold on TV.
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was watching it in school 8th grade, had the TV in the classroom and everyone fell silent they had everyone go home early.
Sad Day
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my older brother had just picked up a vhs recorder and he decided to record the launch to test it out for the first time...
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4 dates stand out in my head and I remember exactly what I was doing, and reactions at the respective times:
The day Kennedy was assassinated (I was 4, but I remember my mother crying, and the fear in my Dad's eye)
The day the first man landed on the moon.
The day the Challenger exploded.
9/11/01.
GB the Challenger crew.
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Originally posted by Gunthr
I'll never forget the look on Mr. McAuliffe's face (father of teacher/astronaut Sharon McAuliffe)when the Challenger exploded. It slowly dawned on him that his daughter had just died. It was painfull to see this tradgedy happen - I felt so sorry for that guy. (His reaction was filmed live by a newscrew)
Not to be a stickler...it was Christa McAuliffe...Not Sharon.
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I watched it live as we were steaming off the coast of San Diego. Just had the picture on, no sound, while listening to the stereo.
Just after the explosion, the lyrics to the Cult's "Pheoenix" cut in.
Like the heat from a thousand suns that burns on
Rising ever higher
A Phoenix from a pyre
freaky wierd timing. lotta goose bumbs.
F.
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I was in the library in the 7th grade watching it live on TV with about 25 or 30 other students that thought it would be cool to watch a shuttle launch instead of running around outside.
When it all happened it was like a stunned silence. Then one kid asked, "Uh...its not supposed to look like that, right?" We had an announcement later in class that it had exploded and a moment of silence to go along with it.
Its one of those things that you will always remember where you were when it happened. Kinda like 9/11 I think. Or the Kennedy assassination for those that were alive then.
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I grew up on Merritt Island (Kennedy Space Center is on Merritt Island) and I recall standing on the roof of my parents house watching John Young and Bob Crippen go up in Columbia on her maiden voyage. We had heard for months about all the problems and issues with shuttle. I recall that many of my friends and their parents (most of whom worked out at the Cape) were concerned about a catastrophe. Honestly, we were pleasently surprised when STS-1 survived the launch...but I think many of us in the area knew that it was a matter of time.
When Challenger exploded, my mom called me. Her first words were, "well, it finally happened." Sadly, it was not a surprise.
BTW, Frogm4n...where did you go to school?
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I heard this sad news on the kitchen radio preparing to go to school :(
Was really shoked. I collected every piece of information about that tragedy. Even cut articles from newspapers on street stands with a razor while walking my dog. Still have the file with all that stuff. And two months later we launched Mir...
The whole tragedy was widely covered in USSR, without any slightest sarcasm. It was indeed a shock for everyone.
My Father brought "Aviation Week" issues from work. Can you believe they were classified in USSR? I tried to find any piece of info about Space Shuttle and American space programm, and was really surprised when I found out that complete descriptions of every manned space mission were published in Grand Soviet Encyclopedia annual volumes.
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I was on patrol on the East/West German border. Once we returned to Hof (border camp) the Border ops guys told us. I seen the footage on AFN Europe later that morning. Truely a sad day.
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a couple hours into a 12 hour shift. my son was 2 weeks from his first b-day.
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I was at sea... somewhere in Socal oparea, IIRC... onboard the U.S.S. Leahy (CG-16).
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I was out there that day too, Sandman. USS Chandler (DDG-996)
F.
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How did you like the Ayatolla class?
Heard stories that you guys had double the standard evaps on those things... You can only imagine the living hell of a boiler boat. :)
Or... is my memory completely failing me and the Chandler wasn't Kidd class... ?
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total misery..
to the brave astronauts
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Strange coincidence:
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7th Grade Science class. I'll never forget that moment.
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I was in elementary school, probably 5th grade. After hearing it on the news in the morning, ran to where my friends were raising the flag (school sits right next to where I used to live) and yelled for them to take the flag to half mast. What a terrible day, and for today also.
:(
mauser