20 years ago....

[Dis]

12 years old

as for the wall, I think I was in boot camp then. I had no access to news from the outside world. edit: maybe not, I was thinking it felll in 1991- I must be thinking of the fall of the soviet union. . Where the hell was I when the wall fell?

[Last Conformist]

Sitting infront of your computer and waiting for Apolyton to be set up?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Sitting infront of your computer and waiting for Apolyton to be set up?

those were the C64 days. It's probably a good thing I didn't have something like Apolyton back in the C64 days. I would have never did my school work.

[Dis]

and to get back on topic...

RIP



and I was just reading up on this. I had no idea they survived the initial explosion (though technically it didn't explode instantly). Scary ride down. I salute their bravery.

[Zkribbler]

I remember being taking the disaster more in stride than other people. Growing up, my dad worked on experimental jet aircraft, and there were a lot of test pilots lost. So to me, the loss of the Challenger was just an extension of that.

Most of America really didn't believe something like this court happen. To me, it was just a grim piece of reality. Deal with it, mourn and move on.

[PLATO]

Today is a good day to remember all those who have died persuing the last frontier...

The Astronaut Memorial

[Agathon]

I remember that.

I woke up (NZ time) to be told by my mother that the Space Shuttle had blown up.

It was the first disaster that had had massive live media coverage of it. Before that, disasters were something that the media showed the aftermath of. Now people expect live film of all disasters.

[Joseph]

I was working at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at the time. It blew up before we went to work. I have alway supported our Space Program, so it was another big lost for me.

[Sikander]

I was attending a school at Goodfellow AFB during my army service. As we were leaving for class we were watching the preperations for launch. I thought to myself, "What if that thing blew up?". I found out a few hours later. I was one of those interminably repeated images from the 1980s like Reagan getting shot.

[Arrian]

I remember watching it in school. The memory is rather hazy, so I cannot say for sure whether it was live or replay, but I think it was live. I was 9 years old.

It was pretty shocking... public perception was that shuttle launches were routine.

-Arrian