The space shuttle Challenger exploded 30 years ago today

[RobDownSouth]

The space shuttle Challenger exploded thirty years ago today.

Where were you when you heard the news?

Tell us.

 

[yossi]

A year from being born.

 

[Saint Peter]

Punk!

 

[ElizabethWest]

I was watching it live, as were so many.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I was sitting in my elementary school reading class, my favorite class with my favorite teacher, watching it live. We were all so excited to watch the shuttle launch.

 

[Disgustipated]

In class like so many kids my age. All excited when the janitor rolled the giant tube TV in on the rickety cart. I don't think any of us could grasp the magnitude of what we were watching.

She was a local and a school here is named for her.

http://www.space.com/images/i/000/020/840/original/christa-mcauliffe-weightless.jpg?1345682029

 

[Lancecastor]

Reminds me of Live on TV You Can Watch Them Die by the very listenable French-Canadian band "The Box"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTCSEpn1FQ


Try their other hits too!

 

[Wrong Element]

The space shuttle Challenger exploded thirty years ago today.

Where were you when you heard the news?

Tell us.

Like most people, I didn't pay attention to the launch -- by 1986, they had gotten pretty routine.

I was out driving and it came up during the noon newscast.

 

[Busybody]

I saw it live

As I was sitting in my office.....

I blamed Hussein Obama Bin Soetoro and CuntClinton

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I was in Florida. In some grade that still required us to hold hands in a line when we went somewhere. We left the class to go watch it out on the playground. Even that young I knew something was wrong when the fireball in the sky did a small arc and returned to earth...

 

[Lancecastor]

As far as space shuttle explosions go the Columbia was much better.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I was in class as well.

 

[Penuche]

Probably taking mock A levels.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I saw it happen. I was at work and stepped outside to see the launch (no teevee). Hooterville is 150 miles from the Cape. I saw the explosion.

 

[Not Normal]

I was in High School. We had a sub in band class and a buddy of mine and I were in the practice rooms playing the old Hammonds when the principal came on the PA and gave the announcement. We had lunch right after band and it was the topic of conversation all around the cafeteria.

 

[Emerson40]

I was in school, watching the launch with the rest of the school, assembled in the gym.

I remember that at the time of the explosion, the whole place went quiet, as if someone flipped a switch and shut off all the kid's excitement and chatter.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I was in school, watching the launch with the rest of the school, assembled in the gym.

I remember that at the time of the explosion, the whole place went quiet, as if someone flipped a switch and shut off all the kid's excitement and chatter.

^^^^Out in the parking lot giving the basket ball team blow jobs.

 

[doowdniw]

I was in the library.

 

[silver gurl]

In high school watching it. It was big deal because Christa McAuliffe was a teacher from our state.

 

[Aphro]

In the school cafeteria. It was being projected. I can remember the collective gasp of the students as it exploded.

 

[spacekowboy]

I was either in the 3rd or 4th grade(had the same teacher both years). We did not watch it live, instead my teacher made the announcement after we had returned from morning break. I remember it because she broke down and started weeping as she made the announcement. We then watched the news reports in the classroom. That was one of the first times I remember seeing an adult cry like that and it took me aback for a moment.
Being so young the magnitude of that moment really didn't sink in. It wasn't until I was much older that I could truly grasp the horror of the it.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Don't remember. I remember being in the high school cafeteria when the "first" shuttle exploded during launch though. Was still such a new event that launches where shown live.

 

[Lancecastor]

The Space Shuttle was for pussies.

John Glenn went into space with a duct-taped window.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/images/3/39/Glenn,_John_and_the_Friendship_7_Space_Capsule.jpg

 

[Hard_Rom]

The Space Shuttle was for pussies.

John Glenn went into space with a duct-taped window.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/images/3/39/Glenn,_John_and_the_Friendship_7_Space_Capsule.jpg

That was the problem with both shuttle disasters. They should have used duct tape for an o-ring on the first and used duct tape to hold the tiles and insulation on the second.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g287/acatmaylook/ducttape.jpg

 

[ElizabethWest]

The Space Shuttle was for pussies.

John Glenn went into space with a duct-taped window.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/images/3/39/Glenn,_John_and_the_Friendship_7_Space_Capsule.jpg

I can't even count the number of classes I had at Gus Grissom Hall during my years at Purdue.