25 year anniversary of the Space Shuttle disaster

[Mtn.man]

I was working in Orlando and we watched from the top of the building at MGM studios.
We had seen many lift offs and had worked at the cape before when it took off.
We knew something was way wrong after a few seconds.
My kids were so exicited at the time becaus a teacher Krista MacAuliffe
was going and they were supposed to get pics and info at all the schools about space.

RIP astronauts.

[Graves]

Sad day. I'm not even sure where I was at the time. R.I.P.

[jerrymrc]

Martin Army at Ft Benning. Was in the brace shop watching it.

[alxone]

I was running late for computer class , back when computer screens were black and white or green and white t.v. . Anyway i had no idea we were gonna watch it in color in the gym ( cause i was late ). so i walk in to an empty class room of 30 some odd computer screens all turned to the shuttle liftoff . Watching it on all those screens at once was one of the most memorable experiences of my life .

[Elhuero]

I was in the third grade. Having just sharpened my pencil I turned to walk back to my desk when the principal came on the PA and said "Attention. The space shuttle has just exploded"

after school I ran the entire way home and watched the coverage on TV.

[Marlin]

In the 3/502nd Battlion aid station, doing paperwork after sick call was over with.

[ghettodub]

I was about 7 or something, so I was probably playing with GI Joes

[Byte Stryke]

94th Combat Engineer Battalion, Darmstadt West Germany.
Probably ass over elbows in the engine compartment of something.

[Monky]

I was on my way to school..(3rd grade to be exact). I remember listening to the radio.. it took off as we came to a 4 way stop.. when we pulled into school is when it happened. There was a creepy silence. Everything came to a stop... Living in a city w/ Marshall, and a TON of aerospace companies.. it was talked about for years...

[Lex_Luthor]

I was in my mothers womb, 1st trimester.

[rellik74]

I was at work and planed my break for lift off and Bang what a sad day.

I have made it a point to watch every lift off since I was a kid since moon landing. (yea IM old)

[patrick0685]

ya...i was like 7 months old...so i can tell you i live in southern GA at the time

[ronaldrwl]

At work (Hughes Aircraft) with my wife. She had briefly known and worked with one of the engineers (Gregory Jarvis).

[spyder]

I was 4, we were at home watching it on the tv and recording it on VHS.

[theGinsue]

I was sitting at the main system console of System 2B, a WWMCCS test and development system @ Scott AFB, IL.

I was an Airman, one day short of being at my first permanent duty station for one month.

Because this was a classified environment, we had no TV's or radios. I remember a guy walking up to a group of us and telling us what had happened. No one believed him - hey, this was the Cinderella story flight whereas a non-astronaut public school teacher was going into space - nothing could possibly have really gone wrong; right?

Moments later the phones started ringing with calls coming in from everywhere telling us what had happened.

The rest of the day at work was spent in a certain numb silence.

When I got off of work I ran back to my dorm (barracks) and watched the events on my roommates TV.

[2008f450]

I was in class (6th grade) when someone from the office came in. My teacher turned on the t.v. and we saw the live coverage after it had exploded. I remember thinking that I was glad my grandfather wasnt around to see it happen. He worked for Rocketdyne for many years and was heavily involved in the space program, from the Saturn V rockets up to and including the shuttle program. That day and the Columbia coming apart would have broke his heart.

[Wulf202]

kindergarten, my teacher checked out a tv (there were only a half dozen for the whole school) so she/we could watch her college friend go up in space. She went home sick.

[steveopia]

5th grade. They brought a TV in so we could watch it.

[Elhuero]

kindergarten, my teacher checked out a tv (there were only a half dozen for the whole school) so she/we could watch her college friend go up in space. She went home sick.

did she come back the next day or did it take some time?

[gnihcraes]

Sr. Year in HS, was at a peer counseling retreat with another couple hundred teens from state wide HS's. Remember it well. RIP

[mahabali]

Wow, cant believe it has been 25 years. I was like 6 1/2 but I remember it somehow. I must have been home sick that day or something because I was watching it live on TV.

[sniper7]

I was just a baby at the time.
I have visited several NASA locations across the country. I love space travel, shuttles, everything about it. I can only hope someday commercial travel allows me the opportunity to get to the edge of the atmosphere and maybe catch some glimpse of what it might be like to be an astronaut.

[Wulf202]

did she come back the next day or did it take some time?

I dont recall

[Mtn.man]

I was just a baby at the time.
I have visited several NASA locations across the country. I love space travel, shuttles, everything about it. I can only hope someday commercial travel allows me the opportunity to get to the edge of the atmosphere and maybe catch some glimpse of what it might be like to be an astronaut.


Yeah would be nice. I have worked at the Cape several times and seen alot of liftoffs of alot of different ships, but the space shuttle has always been special.
Our current dictatorship seems to want to put a hold on space travel/exploration so I don't see alot of new happenings.-

[GhostRider]

Nellis AFB NV 474TFW got out of a class to watch, RIP