Challenger: The Final Flight (Netflix)
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Christa McAuliffe was an actual teacher as I recall. I just did a search of the crew and she was one of two women on board.
I was running Seattle ops out of a Sears warehouse in the SoDo district and actually watched it on a bank of TVs in a Sears store just like the movies -
I was a sophomore in high school, sitting in my geometry class. Our class clown was listening to the radio in the back of the class. He broke the news to everyone and we all laughed at him not believing a word. A few minutes later, a couple of teachers came in to see if we had a TV in our classroom so that they could watch the news. I really followed the news and the investigation that followed the Challenger accident. I was very much fascinated with space and looked up to astronauts at that time.
@LebamDawg, thanks for the info on JAL 123. I didn't remember that crash. Even back then, I was an aviation geek and my brothers and I would talk about airplanes, crashes, etc. I watched a Youtube video on that crash and it was sobering. The flight crew did their best, but the plane was just uncontrollable. Amazingly, there are a couple of grainy pictures of that plane with its vertical stabilizer missing.
Some of the passengers also took pictures that were recovered. All the oxygen masks were deployed and there was a flight attendant talking to some passengers a few rows ahead. There was also a picture of the trailing edge of the right wing. The plane was till in straight-and-level flight at that point. -
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Know what NASA stands for? Need Another Seven Astronautsbiak1 said:
Remember any?LebamDawg said:What I remember of the Challenger going down was the inappropriate jokes that came out. You do not want to be working in an engineering department when tragedy strikes.
Similar to the humor on this site.
#TooSoon? is what I remember.
Christa McAulliffe was an English teacher. She's history now
Those were within 5 hours of the blow up -
Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss. -
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv. -
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv. -
That was kicksss TV. After growing up watching the nightly death count during Vietnam, GW1 was a welcome conquest.Doog_de_Jour said:
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
Did the young @Doog_de_Jour discover her womanhood through fantasies of Arthur Kent, the scud stud?
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Awwwwww yeah.PurpleThrobber said:
That was kicksss TV. After growing up watching the nightly death count during Vietnam, GW1 was a welcome conquest.Doog_de_Jour said:
The start of the first Gulf War for some reason was more emotionally impactful than either the Challenger disaster or 9/11. I was in middle school at the time and I watched CNN nonstop to see what was going on.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.PurpleThrobber said:Was nursing a horrific hangover housesitting for my grandparents.
Having lived through MLK Jr and RFKs assassinations, didn’t shake me much. Assumed risk of the profession.
The second airliner into the tower left a much more lasting sense of grief and loss.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
Did the young @Doog_de_Jour discover her womanhood through fantasies of Arthur Kent, the scud stud?
Raawwwwwrrrrrrrr. -
ISWYDTBleachedAnusDawg said:
I foresee this thread quickly being hijacked.
But I remember seeing the second plane hit while in the break room at work and I thought it was just a replay of the first plane. I must've asked about 15 people if it was a replay and nobody could get out any words. That entire day is burned in to my memory. I'll know when the dementia has set in when I forget the looks on everyone's faces as they watched the tv.
