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re: The Challenger disaster was 30 years ago today
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:12 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:12 am to GetCocky11
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From rural South Carolina and a product of segregated South Carolina public schools and then went to MIT where he received a PhD.
He is still celebrated down here
What an overall sad situation.
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Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:12 am to StringedInstruments
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Big Bird was supposed to be on the shuttle. They ended up substituting the teacher in for him.
That's ashamed. I always hated that big doofus bird.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:13 am to Wally Sparks
I remember sitting in elementary class watching as it blew up. What a huge embarrassment for our entire country. The whole world was watching. It was an eye opening experience for me. Things got a little more real after this happened. RIP to the teacher and astronauts.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:16 am to DaTroof
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What a huge embarrassment for our entire country.
That was my first emotion. I distinctly remember wondering what the Russians were going to say about this. We had failed miserably.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:19 am to Wally Sparks
Watched it live in school. Got a little awkward before the teacher turned it off and changed the subject.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:26 am to DaTroof
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I remember sitting in elementary class watching as it blew up. What a huge embarrassment for our entire country. The whole world was watching. It was an eye opening experience for me. Things got a little more real after this happened. RIP to the teacher and astronauts.
I think NASA had a couple un-manned launches fail as well after this. Those were some dark days for the space program.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:36 am to GetCocky11
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I think NASA had a couple un-manned launches fail as well after this. Those were some dark days for the space program.
Those dark days look like the sunniest days in the summer time compared to the times we're in now.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:38 am to yellowhammer2098
Astronauts in satin flight suits. Gotta love the 80's.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:43 am to Wally Sparks
My ex-wife took her second grade class to NASA on a field trip that day. Quite traumatic for those kids.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:46 am to terd ferguson
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Kindergarten... the ol' TV on a cart
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Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:56 am to Wally Sparks
A very sad day, I was watching via TV and it was cold here as well.
It was a doubly tragic issue with all the school kids' attentions focused on that mission because of the Teacher in Space angle.
There was an alternate teacher chosen by NASA in case the first choice teacher had any problem in training.
The BBC interviewed the alternate (Barbara Morgan) recently as the 30th Anniversary approached as a segment on their very interesting (IMO) news magazine series "Witness".
BBC Link
It was a doubly tragic issue with all the school kids' attentions focused on that mission because of the Teacher in Space angle.
There was an alternate teacher chosen by NASA in case the first choice teacher had any problem in training.
The BBC interviewed the alternate (Barbara Morgan) recently as the 30th Anniversary approached as a segment on their very interesting (IMO) news magazine series "Witness".
BBC Link
Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:58 am to Wally Sparks
I was watching from school at St. Stanislaus.... I remember lots of my classmates dads lost their jobs after this... The rockets were tested not far away from my school
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:04 am to Wally Sparks
Revelations about the bureaucracy between Morton Thiokol and NASA's failed leadership in the wake of the disaster were shocking. This never should have happened, and it's a miracle we hadn't already lost one.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:07 am to TheIndulger
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From rural South Carolina and a product of segregated South Carolina public schools and then went to MIT where he received a PhD.
He is still celebrated down here
I lived in Florence back in 95-96. I think Ron McNair has a couple schools named after him in that area correct?
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:08 am to Wally Sparks
As I posted in the thread on the SEC-OT, I was 10 and out of school due to the same weather system that brought such frigid cold to the Cape. I was staying at my grandmother's and watched it as it happened live. I am so glad that my 10 year old self did not know about the crew cabin staying intact until hitting the ocean surface.
Also amazing to think that all three of the major US space program disasters have come, although years apart, within a week of each other on the calendar, and in order. Apollo 1 (January 27), Challenger (January 28) and Columbia (February 1).
Also amazing to think that all three of the major US space program disasters have come, although years apart, within a week of each other on the calendar, and in order. Apollo 1 (January 27), Challenger (January 28) and Columbia (February 1).
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:09 am to Tigeralum2008
2nd Grade. I remember our teacher's aide running into the room and turning on the TV that hung in the corner of our classroom. She was crying her eyes out. Sad day.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:10 am to Tiger Hoods
quote:And the External Cryogenic Tank was made at Michoud in NOLA East.
St. Stanislaus...
The rockets were tested not far away from my school
There were a lot of their employees who lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 10:11 am
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:11 am to Wally Sparks
I was locked in for initiation. We all thought the actives were fricking with us.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:14 am to Tiger Hoods
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The rockets were tested not far away from my school
These would be the Orbiter SSMEs (Space Shuttle Main Engines)
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:17 am to autodd03
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1st grade... the ol' TV on a cart
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