Same...I think most of us around that age were in the same situation. Watching on TV and not fully understanding how very bad it was.
40 Years Ago Today Challenger Exploded - Where were you?
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If my math is right, I was 4 weeks into the romance of the century (Moms)
8th grade English class. Knew the launch was happening and some classes were watching in the library. Asked to be excused to bathroom. Went to library room instead. Got in the room just in time to see launch and explosion. Went back to class and told Mrs., Capps, and she did not believe me. Took us all to the library to see it after convinced her. Lots of tears in that room that day.
I was at the Cape when it happened. Have pictures from the beginning to the end. Unforgettable day.
I was in between classes during my first year as a professor at UMass Boston. Was watching live when it exploded
I was watching the launch on TV in the packed Sitting Bull Lounge at Okemo Mountain, Vermont. We were having a huge "Demo Days" and most of the Mid-Atlantic and New England reps from the leading ski equipment companies were there. It was a very festive affair --- until we all realized what had happened and what we had just seen. Suddenly there was silence other than the sound of an occasional sob. It was a moment in time that I will never forget. I get emotional just thinking about that day even 40 years later.
It’s like we in the same school. Same for me, south of Pittsburgh, one of our fifth grade teachers had done all of the training down and Alabama.
I was in my second year of employment after graduating with a BS ChE from Penn State, working as a process engineer at the DuPont refinish paint plant in Front Royal, VA. I had just gone down to the plant cafeteria for lunch when news of the Challenger explosion broke. Sadly, DuPont Viton(r) was used in the o-ring seal that failed on the solid rocket motor (though the o-rings were made by Morton-Thiokol).
IMSA GTP. When he drove for the Porsche factory that was WSC in the Rothmans 956 and 962 winning 24 Hours of Le Mans 3 times.
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Wife and I waiting for our flight at Philadelphia airport - watching it live with many stopping to see history, then quiet (other than people walking to their gates, not knowing) thinking our plane and the flight will be safe. Just not believable at that time, that day.
High School cafeteria in line buying lunch. First announcement came over and said the mission was aborted(exact words from our dipshit principal), then he came back on a few minutes later and announced it exploded.
I actually am a Holbert family member. Was blessed to grow up in a great family spending many weekends at race tracks.
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My buddy used to own Ferrari of Atlanta. He would love to say there is a lot of money in racing. I know because I put it there.
Or just do what the Whittington Bros, John Paul and Randy Lanier did back in the day... filled their haulers with marijuana and cocaine and as they went race to race in their haulers across the country delivered their product and received fat wads of cash at the race track.
Anatomy class my freshman year at Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. Walked out of class to watch the launch. Walked back in a told the class of 110 other students. I could hardly talk.
5th year senior at PSU, was in our apartment in Beaver Hill. One of my roommates came in and said “The space shuttle just blew up”. Just sat and watched the coverage for the rest of the day.
I was in 6th grade. My class was going to watch it but something happened and we weren't able to that day. Then we got news that it was probably best we didn't get to see it live.