Do you remember where you were at this moment?
https://youtu.be/j4JOjcDFtBE
Not me. I was negative 2 years old.
https://youtu.be/j4JOjcDFtBE
Not me. I was negative 2 years old.
School watching live. Minutes after, Principal called over intercom and ordered all televisions to be turned off
The scary thing is now we know that those astronauts were ALIVE after the breakup and only died after they hit water. It was a 2 minute free fall. How terrifying that must have been.
shareIf only they'd listened to Joseph Kittinger...
shareWhat should be terrifying is -- Most of humanity has to endure terrifying ends to their lives. They just don't happen to be honored and well-compensated astronauts.
shareNo. But I remember a teacher was a member of the crew. And that Van Halen song "Hot for Teacher" was out.
shareSeven good and serious people died on a mission. This is not an instance to joke about.
Sorry, but that's how I remember it. I didn't invent the joke. It was everywhere.
shareNever heard the ‘joke’ and you had no need to repeat it.
shareYes I did. It answers the thread question. McAuliffe was no saint and it's not blasphemy to recall the events of that time.
shareYou heard some sick joke about American Astronauts dying in flames on a mission for science and you retold a sick joke?
And you add that McAuliffe ‘was no saint?’
What does that have to do with anything other than an attempt to change subject?
Hmmm. It seems I'm the only one on this thread who mentioned the teacher. McAuliffe was the first civilian in space. That is her legacy. The joke speaks to that.
Sorry, I don't belief dead people are holy. I didn't invent the joke. But it speaks to the issue raised by the OP.
Now shove your pretensions up your ass.
Nope, happened two years before I was even born.
shareYes, I was in art class in middle school. The teachers stopped classes and brought big TVs on carts from the A/V Club into the classrooms, we were all about 12 or 13 years old and we didn’t quite understand what it meant in the moment but our teachers were weeping or trying to hold it together.
It was a very bad day for my country🇺🇸
the last semester of university. i think the class was organizational management. the professor broke the news.
shareI was a senior in highschool. I walked into the library and everyone was crowded around the tv. I asked what happened and someone told me that the space shuttle exploded. I was in utter shock as were the rest of the people in the school library that day.
For some reason, I remember it being a very cold that day here in the upper peninsula. It was -20F that day.
That's why the shuttle disintegrated. It was too cold that morning and the O-rings contracted allowing hot gas to flow out. NASA knew of the problem yet decided to launch anyway! Criminal!
shareI happened right at the start of the school day for us. We heard about it but it wasn't until I went home at lunch that I actually saw anything on it.
shareNo I don't remember where I was. That disaster happened during a time when I didn't have a television. I have seen the footage of course but it must have been well after the event.