25 year anniversary of the Space Shuttle disaster

[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.