Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 29 years ago today, Jan. 28, 1986

[B00Mer]

Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 29 years ago today, Jan. 28, 1986

Do you remember where you were?

As the whole world watched, on Jan. 28, 1986, the first teacher in space, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, and her fellow crew members of Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during liftoff. Just 73 seconds into its mission it exploded, killing all seven crew members.

Crew members were Francis R. Scobee, mission commander; Gregory Jarvis, payload specialist; Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist; and McAuliffe, teacher in space and payload specialist.

Challenger's launch had been delayed several times. Ultimately, its mission lasted just 1 minute and 13 seconds. It traveled 18 miles.

For more information on Challenger, go to www.nasa.gov.

source: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 29 years ago today, Jan. 28, 1986 | PennLive.com

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I was working. One of my co-workers starts making weird jokes about exploded space shuttles. Then I realized it actually happened.

Which brings to mind one of the jokes circulated in the days/months after: Why does NASA only have Sprite in the control tower? Because they can't get 7UP.

 

[Blackleaf]

Do you remember where you were?

Nope. I was four years old.

 

[WLDB]

Do you remember where you were?

No, I didnt exist.

Nope. I was four years old.

Damn. You're half the age I thought you were.

 

[JLM]

Nope. I was four years old.

Oh, I figured that is about your age now.

Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 29 years ago today, Jan. 28, 1986

Do you remember where you were?

As the whole world watched, on Jan. 28, 1986, the first teacher in space, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, and her fellow crew members of Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during liftoff. Just 73 seconds into its mission it exploded, killing all seven crew members.

Crew members were Francis R. Scobee, mission commander; Gregory Jarvis, payload specialist; Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist; and McAuliffe, teacher in space and payload specialist.

Challenger's launch had been delayed several times. Ultimately, its mission lasted just 1 minute and 13 seconds. It traveled 18 miles.

For more information on Challenger, go to www.nasa.gov.

source: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 29 years ago today, Jan. 28, 1986 | PennLive.com

Yep, and I have a vivid recollection of where I was, what I was doing and how I found out. Doesn't seem possible it was 29 years ago!

 

[eh1eh]

I remember. My now wife and I had run home at lunch, we lived 5 minutes from work, for a nooner, ah the good old days.
We had strawberries in the fridge. She was wearing her pink pants. I remember it well.

 

[Sal]

yes I was at work and it felt surreal

 

[Nuggler]

yes I was at work and it felt surreal

Yep, just the way if felt to me. I was watching it live, and felt that if they had had 5 more seconds, we would never have seen it

Someone would have pushed the "Don't show the proles" button.

But, THEY FAILED.

Imagine if it had felt real.

Sorry; I'm just being a dork.

Felt the same way on 9/11.

Nothing fukkin fazes me now.

Cept a dog getting run over or something.

Or some prick thinking he can own a pistol when the law says he can't.

Or the same prick getting his head caved by a walking cane when he thinks he's in control.

It was a nasty 10 seconds for sure.

And.....................that's it.8O

 

[Sal]

Yep, just the way if felt to me. I was watching it live, and felt that if they had had 5 more seconds, we would never have seen it

Someone would have pushed the "Don't show the proles" button.

But, THEY FAILED.

Imagine if it had felt real.

Sorry; I'm just being a dork.

Felt the same way on 9/11.

Nothing fukkin fazes me now.

Cept a dog getting run over or something.

Or some prick thinking he can own a pistol when the law says he can't.

Or the same prick getting his head caved by a walking cane when he thinks he's in control.

It was a nasty 10 seconds for sure.

And.....................that's it.8O

my bosses son (who would soon become the boss) had this little black and white on in his office playing it in the back ground...I was working in the office that particular day instead of being out on the road...he came screaming out of his office and we all jammed back into his office to watch

with 9/11 I believe it was a Tuesday and I was off work for the day...got up late that day and turned on the TV which was unusual too...and there it was...we just kept watching it over and over and people were phoning each other and we talked and talked and watched and watched until we were so saturated with disbelief that I had to go out...I remember walking into a store and how it hit me, life was going on...people were shopping...that felt strange

 

[Kreskin]

I was working as s bailiff. What a gong show that was (my job).

 

[SLM]

I was at home with my son that day. I watched it live on television and I can remember the commentator continuing on with his exposition after I saw the explosion. I can remember thinking to my self "Oh my God, that just exploded, when is he going to mention that?". Either he wasn't looking at the video feed or it just didn't register right away what had happened.

It was really surreal. Similar in that sense to when I watched the twin towers fall.

 

[gopher]

I was at work and my supervisor had a radio in the background - she practically screamed when she heard the news and we were all startled. Very sad day, indeed.

 

[talloola]

i was at home, inside the house, i watched the launching, and stood there totally paralized, and

horrified, as i thought of all of those people thrown out, and down to the ocean, what a helpless feeling,

and immediate ending, Absolutely nothing could help them at that point, gone, and all of those school

children watching the teacher, so excited, then horrified, they will never forget, they are now telling

their children.

i wondered for a long time, if any of them in that spacecraft lived for a few seconds or more after the

explosion, i hope not, don't know if that would have been possible.

 

[JLM]

i was at home, inside the house, i watched the launching, and stood there totally paralized, and

horrified, as i thought of all of those people thrown out, and down to the ocean, what a helpless feeling,

and immediate ending, Absolutely nothing could help them at that point, gone, and all of those school

children watching the teacher, so excited, then horrified, they will never forget, they are now telling

their children.

i wondered for a long time, if any of them in that spacecraft lived for a few seconds or more after the

explosion, i hope not, don't know if that would have been possible.

I would guess they were instantaneously vaporized.

 

[EagleSmack]

I was a Marine on ship and we were cleaning weapons.

 

[Blackleaf]

Damn. You're half the age I thought you were.

Yep. I was born in Saint Mary's Hospital in Manchester on 25th July 1981, four days before Charles and Di got married (the hospital menus had a picture of them on their front covers). That's the thing about the internet. You've no idea who you're REALLY talking to. I could go on another internet forum right now and pretend that I'm a ninety year old lady and nobody would have the slightest inkling.

Oh, I figured that is about your age now.

Well, that would be impossible. If I were merely four years' old right now then I wouldn't have the capability to put across clear, cogent, intelligent points on an internet discussion forum using a large vocabulary and transmitting them to the other forum users by typing quickly on the computer keyboard. That's not to mention the fact that I joined this forum in 2004 so, had I been merely four years of age at this precise moment in time, I would have joined this discussion forum before I was even born.

 

[Walter]

A great leader.
https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7icmqgsow

 

[Curious Cdn]

A great leader.
https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7icmqgsow

Mortimer Snerd the ventriloquist's dummy.

 

[JLM]

I remember where I was (Nanaimo, B.C.) and exactly what I was doing- by my calculations it was 30 years ago today!

 

[Curious Cdn]

I remember my mother telling me that the "spaceship had blown up" and I didn't quite believe it, at first. I also remember realizing just how dangerous space travel really is and that it is a miracle that it didn't happen to an Apollo shot.