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Twenty Fifth Anniversary Of Challenger Disaster

post #1 of 28
1/28/11 at 12:11pm
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Today, January 28th, is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion. I was in 8th grade math class when I heard the news from the teacher.

Where were you?
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post #2 of 28
1/28/11 at 12:12pm
O-rings aren't worth a shit.
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post #3 of 28
1/28/11 at 12:12pm
I believe I was home watching it on tv.
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post #4 of 28
1/28/11 at 12:15pm
Wow. I was in freshman geography class, and it was surreal for a number of reasons.

I attended a parochial boys-only prep school that year, and the quality of teaching was...shall we say...uneven. Our geography teacher in particular claimed to be a professional wrestler (if anything he was a luchador) and was a notorious bullshitter in general, so when we entered his classroom and heard that the Challenger exploded, the common response was 'yeah, right'. Then we went into the a/v room and watched the replays for about 15 minutes.
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post #5 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:11pm
I don't think I saw it live. I think I heard about it and then saw it on TV later. I was working (my first job out of college) and remember being in a men's clothing store at lunch time and seeing the tape on TV for the first time. Very troubling.
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post #6 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:15pm
Why does NASA drink Sprite?
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post #7 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:18pm
I didn't exist.
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post #8 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:20pm
I was in the first grade. I remember the teacher telling us that we had to finish all of our work if we wanted to watch it live on TV.

I was still at that age where the Space Program was one of the coolest things in the world to me, and being an astronaut still seemed like a legitimate career path, so it was a huge deal in my six-year-old mind. It's one of those things I'll always remember vividly.
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post #9 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:29pm
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Why does NASA drink Sprite?

non-caffeinated?
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post #10 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:31pm
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non-caffeinated?

Its because they couldn't get 7 UP!!

No one remembers this joke that came out 1 week after the accident?
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post #11 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:34pm
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I was in the first grade. I remember the teacher telling us that we had to finish all of our work if we wanted to watch it live on TV. I was still at that age where the Space Program was one of the coolest things in the world to me, and being an astronaut still seemed like a legitimate career path, so it was a huge deal in my six-year-old mind. It's one of those things I'll always remember vividly.
I think I'm still at that age now! NASA is so cool.
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post #12 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by ter1413 View Post
I believe I was home watching it on tv.

+1

I stayed home from school that day (which I did a lot) and saw it on tv.
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post #13 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by Slopho View Post
Its because they couldn't get 7 UP!!

No one remembers this joke that came out 1 week after the accident?

I saw it on a TV in a Marine helicopter squadron ready room. It took about a day for the jokes to start. The one which sticks in my mind:

What were Christa McAuliffe's last words? "Hey, what does this button do?"
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post #14 of 28
1/28/11 at 1:49pm
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Originally Posted by Slopho View Post
Its because they couldn't get 7 UP!!

No one remembers this joke that came out 1 week after the accident?

I was a baby when it happened...sorry!
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post #15 of 28
1/28/11 at 5:25pm
I remember seeing that in class. I was trying to talk to this chick Samantha who I was hardcore crushing on at the time. She cried, I comforted her while I was really scared on the inside. Big day. Big day. I think I kissed her on the cheek on the bus home.
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