Reply #39: I saw it live. Did not have satellite. [View All]

[Heddi]

I was at home sick that day. I would have been in Ms. Tindall's 4th grade class, where everyone was gathered 'round the tee vee to watch in school.

Instead, I watched it live. I know it was live. There was the little "live" thing on the bottom of the screen. I remember them walking to the shuttle. The count-down. Various interviews. Shuttle taking off. Shuttle "exploding". Parts raining down. Much crying. People screaming in the background. It was on the news for the rest of the day.

I was in North Charleston, SC at the time. I lived in a trailer with my mother. I was writing in my journal while it was happening. I still have thejournal. Started out talking about how neat it was that the teacher was going to space and how I wanted to go to space and hopefully one day I would. THen I wrote that something looked wrong. And then I wrote that it blew up and I hoped they were still alive.

No satellite.

Just tv. Just like the kids in the classroom (we were in a poor school district and they were getting live feed off the TV just like I was). They didn't have satellite either. I don't even think the school had cable.