Challenger Go at Throttle Up!

[jimlup]

Roger, Go!

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Hard to believe that it has been 25 years!

[get the red out]

1. I know

I was coming back to my apartment from class (I was in college then) and a neighbor was leaving and told me the space shuttle just blew up. I thought he was pulling some kind of sick joke until I got inside and found a bunch of my neighbors glued to the TV. Just terrible.

[Dulcinea]

2. I remember where I was, too.

I was in college (Penn State), headed back to my dorm from swimming. I walked through the student union, saw a crowd gathered around the TV, & stopped to see what was going on. It was snowing hard that day, & I vividly remember the snow falling on my still-wet hair, but I was numb, & not entirely from the cold.

[damntexdem]

3. I left for work having seen a successful lift-off on TV.

Got to work and asked what people were so upset about. What did they mean that Challenger had a disaster? I'd just seen a successful liftoff!

And there in the picture sits McNair, for whom the McNair Scholars Program is named.

[brendan120678]

4. I was 7 years old, but I remember...

watching the launch live on TV at my babysitters house.

I remember that we were not in school - either a snow day or in-service day or something, so we were allowed to watch the shuttle launch because it would be educational.

Even at that age, when I saw the shuttle exploding, i knew that something had gone wrong and that wasn't supposed to happen!

Also, I remember that the Bears had defeated the Patriots just few days earlier in Super Bowl XX.