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Jimmy_B.
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January 28th, 1986
« on: Jan 27th, 2006, 4:28pm » |
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20 years ago tomorrow...the Space Shuttle Challenger "exploded" a little over a minute after take off, killing 6 astronauts and a schoolteacher passenger.
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I remember that day like it was yesterday. I didn't see it live on TV, but saw it a few hours after it happened. What a horrible thing to witness and it forever changed the course of space flight.
Give a few minutes to remember the pioneers.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #1 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 4:31pm » |
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I remember that day as well. Hard to believe that it was 20 years ago.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #2 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 4:47pm » |
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One of the Channels--Discover--or--National Geographic is dedicating the entire broadcast day in remembrance of that horrible day.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #3 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 4:54pm » |
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #4 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 5:19pm » |
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Thats the very day a buddy and I started planning taking over a dudes drywall company, eight weeks later at 23 years of age I owned my first company! 
RIP Challenger Crew.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #5 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 5:29pm » |
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Seems like it was yesterday! I remember it well and where I was and what I was doing. may they rest in Peace.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #6 on: Jan 27th, 2006, 7:33pm » |
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It was a horror. Such a loss on so many levels.
What sticks in my mind too is how well Ronald Reagan handled it.
Thanks Jimmy from an old new frontier and space program freak.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #7 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 12:10am » |
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I was in school that day...the principal made the announcement over the intercom and let us kids go home. Some of us actually felt bad and cared about the families affected, others just saw it as a day off.
My husband and I will be at Kennedy Space Center next week....I will be awed.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #8 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 2:26am » |
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I know was just 5 years old in January 1986 (turned 6 in April), I still recall that tragedy...
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #9 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 8:43am » |
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Prayers for the families and friends of the crew members. Courage is not an absence of fear, but a willingness to face it, and I'm sure everyone who has entered the shuttle since that day has faced this memory. We humans are pretty curious and adventuresome, huh? Got a cousin who works at NASA, and he and alot of his co-workers took the loss pretty hard.
Space, the final frontier. I love the fact that we are discovering new stars, new planets...still learning. The human spirit is pretty determined, bet the first person who discovered fire got burned. Didn't stop 'em then, and shouldn't stop us now.
RIP Challenger crew!
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #10 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 8:50am » |
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I was working at Woolworth's and covering the electronics department. We had the TVs on and were watching the take-off. We were stunned as we watched it happen 
Everything stopped. Customers and employees all crowded around as the news spread thru the store. The store I worked in was in Bethesda- people of every nationality were there. And we all stood there in silence, stunned and horrified and it was like the world's heart broke.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #11 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 9:07am » |
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It was a sad sad day here too and one I still think of often. It fills me with horror to think of those poor families watching it explode.
I remember crying until I thought my heart had broke
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I'll never forget that day. My mother was watching it as it happened, and yelled for me to come upstairs.
I remember the shock and awe I felt as I was glued to the TV all day which, in retrospect - it was pretty sick that they showed the thing blowing up over and over and over and over for days from all angles.
Definitely a sad tragedy. It's hard to believe it has been 20 years already.
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Re: January 28th, 1986
« Reply #13 on: Jan 28th, 2006, 11:44am » |
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Hey Carl, i think that was the start of the modern "news" broadcasts. The heartless bastards keep showing stuff like that over and over again. How many times did we see the twin towers collapse? The heartless fucking billionaires!!
Anywho, i remember that day vividly. I was 12, and really took an interest in space travel and i wanted to work at NASA. Well, its probably a good thing i went into finance instead, imagine how screwed up your sleep cycle would get in space? The beast would have a ball.
30 seconds of silence.
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