I will never forget this day as long as I live. We all thought it was so cool that a teacher and more so a female was going up in space so we were glued to the tv. Its almost like time stopped when that explosion happened. All the hope and confidence that had been built up in the success of the space shuttle reminded man once again how small he or she is and how little control we actually have.
I was in school.. Catholic school and it was about 6th grade, I think.. We weren't watching it on television for some reason - but some kid told me and the whole class and we were all pretty shocked. It was a wierd day...
I was in 3rd grade. My teacher was a heavy supporter of the space program and had met the teacher who was going up into space. I lived in FL, so around 5 minutes til takeoff we all went out into the parking lot to watch the shuttle take off. We saw it go up...it was right after our lunch was over. We saw a huge flash of light and smoke and my teacher screamed out and we all ran after her into our classroom where we turned on our TV. On every channel was the news broadcast with baffled news reporters and chaos at NASA. We all started to get scared and didn't really understand what had happened. My teacher was crying. She turned off the TV and told us all what had just happened. She had us call our parents to come pick us up to go home. We all left early that day, in silence. We never talked about it again in school that year. But my mom cried for days at home. It was her dream to be an astronaut, and she was a teacher as well. She couldn't believe what had happened. She bought a challanger license plate to support NASA and we took a trip to Washington DC shortly after that to see the mural that was painted for the challanger inside the Capitol building. I will never forget that day. I can still see it vividly. It was a bright sunny day and we never expected anything like that to happen.
I had just finished running the snowblower and come inside and my father told the space shuttle had exploded. I didn't believe him because I thought we had perfected space flight. I saw the replay of the explosion and it hit like a ton of bricks.
I was in school, taking my Driver's Ed. final, and the principal came on over the loudspeaker to announce to the school that the Shuttle had exploded. I had a paper route at the time, and since I delivered the evening edition, photos of the explosion were all over the front page.
I was at work "on the board" so to speak. I work in TV as a Master Control switcher, kind of like a radio dj but I'm not on the air. I remember the special report interruption in programming for the launch. The station manager, chief eng. and several other people were standing behind me watching and I clearly remember wanting to cry and being in disbelief that the people on the space shuttle were gone in an instant before our eyes. Blaziegrl, I've noticed that I seem to be a bit older than everyone else on this board, too. Oh well, you're only as old as you feel. I'm 34 (gasp!) but I certainly don't feel like it.
34 hehe Real old. Bah! Hey. Slowly, but surely, I'm noticing we have some pretty technical, skillfull media-related people around here.. Ehhhhxcellent... Veerrry ehhxcellent... One day we will take over the world! muahaha! hehe
I was a Senior in High School in Moravia, Iowa. Sitting in Art Class, and my Art Teacher had a TV on. We had a Science Teacher, Mrs. Ward, who almost won Christa McCulluff's spot on that shuttle! It didn't sink in for a few minutes... I wasn't really paying attention to the TV.
Hey, what's up, Jammin Johnny? Welcome to the community. What did your Science teacher say about the whole thing? Especially since she could have been on that shuttle... Blaziegrl - You know 40 isn't old! I wouldn't start feeling old yet!
I don't feel old yet Sal, Ijust don't want to grow any older. If I could stay 40 forever that would be just fine with me! I've been having a lot of fun the last few year's LOL.
I wouldn't start feeling old yet!
