Do you remember where you were when the space shuttle Challenger blew up 30yrs ago?

[TheGardener]

Was at work. Heard the news, and I and co-workers rushed to a conference room with a TV. Very sad to listen to the news commentary and watch them replay the launch. At first the news media was discussing what went wrong and if they may have survived. As it became clear that there was no possibility of survival, it turned to whether they died quickly. It was one of those few days a decade you remember where you were.

 

[clamum]

Omg!! Rly???

Yep. After I got done with her, I sucked your mom's dick. Nearly tore the damn thing off I sucked so hard.

Stop drinking. Or start. Whichever improves your posting.

Perknose
Forum Director

 

[MongGrel]

Was running a vertical mill at work listening on the radio.

The whole shop went quiet for a bit.

 

[chimaxi83]

Where did the space shuttles astronauts spend their vacation? Scattered all over the coast of Florida.

I feel like I heard this joke when I was 10 and a half.

 

[sportage]

Lived in San Diego getting ready to do my daily thing, run off to the beach. Blacks Beach!
Grabbed my radio and ran off to the beach.
Back then, a day without sunshine was like a day without.
I remember that day too because I ran into Christina Onassis at Blacks Beach.
Lawn chair, huge beach hat, nose stuck in her magazine, occasionally peeking at all the naked boys and girls strolling by.
Very weird day indeed.

 

[Eug]

So am I the only one here that thought at that time that Reagan's teacher astronaut program was an idiotic PR stunt (which ended up backfiring... literally)?

Or perhaps most here were too young at the time to think of NASA in political terms.

 

[Dude111]

I was @ home when it happend.... Quite sad indeed

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I feel like I heard this joke when I was 10 and a half.

Were you 10 1/2 when the accident occurred?

 

[CZroe]

So am I the only one here that thought at that time that Reagan's teacher astronaut program was an idiotic PR stunt (which ended up backfiring... literally)?



Or perhaps most here were too young at the time to think of NASA in political terms.

What? Like losing another professional astronaut is any less tragic? This sounds like a desperate attempt to politicize.

If you think rationally about it, as inhuman as it sounds, losing a school teacher with some astronaut training is less of a loss than losing a highly-trained career astronaut/specialist.

 

[K7SN]

What? Like losing another professional astronaut is any less tragic? This sounds like a desperate attempt to politicize.

If you think rationally about it, as inhuman as it sounds, losing a school teacher with some astronaut training is less of a loss than losing a highly-trained career astronaut/specialist.

I agree - My heart went out to all the seven and always thought Judy Resnik was upstaged in death by the teacher. I was preparing for Objective C class I was teaching at UNLV - not C++ or modern dialects of object oriented programming which hadn't replaced structured program as mainstream yet..

 

[Micrornd]

About ten miles north watching the launch (and freezing my butt off - it was 28F).
I had seen enough launch failures to know immediately what happened
Watching the slo-mo later only confirmed it.

 

[Imp]

I guess the engineers don't always get it right though: They thought the thing would explode right on the launchpad.
After a puff of gray smoke came out of the side of the booster after ignition, spent fuel temporarily formed a seal that prolonged the flight.

Spent five years working in a branch of engineering... Six years in school. Oh, the shit that I know...

 

[BUTCH1]

I went outside to watch it, (Daytona is about 50-60 miles from KSC) and it was obvious that a diaster has happened even before going back inside to a TV. NASA has had some great, glorious moments, this was not one. The engineers at MT were screaming DO NOT LAUNCH IN THESE TEMPS! yet NASA returned with "God MT, when do you expect us to launch, in April?" The O-rings had shown signs of some blow-by at 50 degrees and your going to launch it at 21?. Even Rockwell (the main contractor for the shuttle itself) was advising not to launch after seeing icicles dangling off everything. Jail time for manslaughter was should have been dispensed in heavy doses for those fucking blithering idiots insisting they launch that frigid morning. It was a "high-profile" mission because of the civilian teacher aboard and it already had to be scrubbed twice.

 

[BUTCH1]

A video on this and the Columbia disaster from last year: http://nyti.ms/1pKyDWi

Actually a lot of neat little vids there, nice find.