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Post by Yubon Peatlejuice on Jan 28, 2016 2:03:07 GMT
I was standing in the kitchen watching it. It brought back memories of seeing Apollo 1 burst into flames on the launch pad. Still get goosebumps when I see it on news footage. See, this is kind of what I was talking about. Our brains play tricks on us and we don't remember things the way they happened. The public did not see the Apollo 1 disaster. It was not broadcast. It was just a test, not the actual launch. Footage was never released of it "bursting into flames". Similarly, another poster remember seeing Columbia launch and then hear a couple of hours later that it exploded. Didn't happen that way at all. So I wonder if a lot of us are suffering from mass delusion when we think we all saw Challenger live in our classrooms? Hard to say!
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Post by Merge on Jan 28, 2016 2:58:51 GMT
I was in 8th grade. I remember hearing about the disaster in the hallway between classes, and watching the news coverage and replay of the shuttle breaking up during English class.
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Jan 28, 2016 3:05:46 GMT
I was teaching high school at the time, so I was in my classroom. One of my students came in and said that they'd been watching it live on TV in their previous class and were shocked when it exploded.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 28, 2016 3:21:00 GMT
So I wonder if a lot of us are suffering from mass delusion when we think we all saw Challenger live in our classrooms? Hard to say! I think you're right. I was interested to I looked for a clip on YouTube, the clip I saw had "CNNLive" in the top corner. Doesn't mean it was live when I watched it today ...and it probably wasn't live when most people saw it several hours after it happened either. If the facts are that most people didn't see it live and that it was a delayed broadcast, I don't see why so many people are insisting they saw it live. I also think that back then TV networks did claim things were 'live' when they weren't. Couldn't happen now because of the increased technology since then. I think we are so used to seeing things 'live' now, that we assume it was the case back then too. I remember one time on the old board someone here got upset because they were watching some Olympic event "live" and it was pointed out to them that being in the USA and the Olympics being on the other side of the world, that this event had occurred several hours ago, and in fact none of the USA broadcast during the day was live. I don't recall who it was but she was very pissed off that she was seeing a delayed coverage...despite the fact that it is impossible for it to be daylight on both sides of the world at the same time.
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Jan 28, 2016 3:43:37 GMT
I was working as a litigation paralegal at a big law firm in Ft. Lauderdale and I was standing at the copy machine at that moment.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 3:45:46 GMT
I was a Senior in high school in Kissimmee, FL in January, 1986.
I was a Senior who was "stuck" in Phys Ed. only because I needed the credit for graduation and changed school districts in high school.
I was skipping PE class, on my way to the cafeteria when I saw it in the sky. Things were so "routine" with the shuttle program by then that even though I saw it in the sky, it really didn't register with me that something was terribly wrong.
By the time I walked across campus and got to the lunchroom, I do recall it being unusually quiet.
I don't really recall anything else of that day...I am not one that recalls watching it on television during class time.
I also very specifically recall the first launch of a shuttle AFTER Challenger. I was working in an office building on Trafalgar Court in Maitland, FL, with a window view of Interstate 4. During the launch, I saw people standing on the parking deck next to our building and also saw numerous vehicles that had pulled off onto the shoulder of I-4 so that they could stop and watch the launch. "Routine and safe launches" are something Central Floridians took for granted. It was kind of nice to see so many people showing interest in the new launch...almost like they did it out of respect for the crew of the Challenger.
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jan 28, 2016 4:02:54 GMT
I was at home from school because I was sick that day and watched it live on TV. I was in high school.
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Post by tduby1 on Jan 28, 2016 12:00:19 GMT
Was this in a one room school, in 1989? I've read there were several here in the thumb of MI up through the eighties and there are still a handful left. I find the idea fascinating.
i Montana. It was actually a three room school (K-8). There was a lower room (K-2), middle room (3-5) and upper room (6-8). At various times it has shrunk down to 2 rooms but is currently back to 3. My mom just retired from teaching there. Fun fact: my first husband also taught there and we lived in the apartment our first year of marriage. That is so cool that it is still around and operating!
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Post by Nanner on Jan 28, 2016 12:57:18 GMT
I was working. My office building was right beside a mall and at lunch time I went to the mall. As I walked into Eatons, the wall of TVs was to my right, and I saw there were a lot of people gathered around those TVs. I joined them, and spent my entire lunch hour watching it over and over again, in horror.
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Post by suzastampin on Jan 28, 2016 15:41:41 GMT
I was standing in the kitchen watching it. It brought back memories of seeing Apollo 1 burst into flames on the launch pad. Still get goosebumps when I see it on news footage. See, this is kind of what I was talking about. Our brains play tricks on us and we don't remember things the way they happened. The public did not see the Apollo 1 disaster. It was not broadcast. It was just a test, not the actual launch. Footage was never released of it "bursting into flames". Similarly, another poster remember seeing Columbia launch and then hear a couple of hours later that it exploded. Didn't happen that way at all. So I wonder if a lot of us are suffering from mass delusion when we think we all saw Challenger live in our classrooms? Hard to say! Good point, Yubon! I would have been 12 at the time of the Apollo launch. Our next door neighbor was a science teacher at the local college, so if there was a launch on tv, we had to stop playing and come watch. It's quite possible that through the years I've confused launches. But, I do know that I watched the Challenger live. At the time we had one of those big satellite dishes and I was watching CNN. After watching so many launches with my neighbors, I always made it a point to stop and watch. While many became complacent about the launches, I made it a point to stop and watch when possible. It still kind of blows the mind.
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Post by tduby1 on Jan 28, 2016 15:59:15 GMT
I was standing in the kitchen watching it. It brought back memories of seeing Apollo 1 burst into flames on the launch pad. Still get goosebumps when I see it on news footage. See, this is kind of what I was talking about. Our brains play tricks on us and we don't remember things the way they happened. The public did not see the Apollo 1 disaster. It was not broadcast. It was just a test, not the actual launch. Footage was never released of it "bursting into flames". Similarly, another poster remember seeing Columbia launch and then hear a couple of hours later that it exploded. Didn't happen that way at all. So I wonder if a lot of us are suffering from mass delusion when we think we all saw Challenger live in our classrooms? Hard to say! I think you are probably on to something.
Given that most of us were children, it probably did seem like it was being watched live, when in fact it was not.
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Post by twinks on Jan 28, 2016 16:07:57 GMT
I remember it very well. I was working that day and got a call from my mother. When I got home from work that was all that was on the TV and remember watching it over and over and over in total disbelief.
My neighbors and very good friends worked at Thiokol, specifically in developing the o-rings. Lon had a very hard time dealing with it and eventually moved and changed positions within the space program.
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Post by Yubon Peatlejuice on Jan 28, 2016 16:39:01 GMT
A coupe of days ago I could have sworn I watched it live in 5th grade. I remember the teacher and where I sat and everything. But in reality, I was in 6th grade and a different school and didn't watch it live at all. I probably watched an earlier shuttle launch on replay while in 5th grade. The mind is tricky!
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Post by mamastone on Jan 28, 2016 16:51:15 GMT
I remember it vividly....I was in 3rd grade, and we were all home sick, so my mom had us laying in the living room to watch it.
I always loved that movie, and wanted to go to Space Camp!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 16:56:53 GMT
I was watching it in school. They'd made a big deal about one of the astronauts being a teacher and brought us all into the auditorium for an assembly to watch it.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jan 28, 2016 17:36:10 GMT
In my memory, I was home from school that day - maybe sick - and watched it on TV. It wouldn't surprise me if my memory was faulty though for several reasons, not least of which is that turning on the news specifically to watch this doesn't seem like something I would have done at that age, but it is also likely that this would have interrupted whatever TV show I was watching. My memory has me home alone sitting about 3 feet in front of the TV. I was 13, so I might have been left home alone for a small illness.
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