Watching Challenger Blow Up When I Was 11
For some reason I had a random memory come up the other day about the space shuttle, Challenger. Remember the one where the first grade school teacher ever was going to be in space?
I remember my class, I must have been 11 at the time, all took a break and went to another classroom where a tv was set up. I don’t think I really knew what was going on except we were going to watch a space shuttle but I remember quite vividly seeing that it blew up in a puff of smoke. I had no idea what I was looking at.
In the following video, you’ll notice that the people watching the take off live also had no idea what they were looking at. Even Christa’s parents just kept staring at the sky wondering if what they were seeing was normal.
What was kind of horrible is that you can hear the NASA play by play guy saying, “There has obviously been a major malfunction.” I mean what can you say? He definitely should say something.
Since I had no idea what I was looking at I had no idea that something bad had happened. I just remember the teachers turning off the tv’s and then we went back to class and then hearing the dumb jokes the next day.
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January 5, 2010
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