The Challenger Shuttle Tragedy, 20 Years Later WHERE WERE YOU?

[Kimp the Shrimp]

i was in 2nd grade watching it with like 200 students people were crying it was the most and not to be insensitive awsome in that i never saw something like that b4 thing



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5174355

 

[JaniceFerSure]

Challenger Anniversary...

I remember that day.I was in Social Studies,10th grade.We were watching 'Dr. Strangelove'(no joke,the irony),when a student came into our classroom and told us to turn off the movie & to turn on the tv channel to the news(was announced over the PA too).Our class watched the broadcast being repeated for the remainder of time.We were all in a very bad state of shock,sympathy & sadness.RIP Challenger crew.

 

[abiraniriba]

I was in my last year at Brooklyn Technical High School. I actually heard about it when I got home and my mother turned on the TV. For about the next week my brother Steve (who has a sick sense of humor) assaulted me with insensitive "jokes" about it.
Christa McAuliffe's last words "What's this button for?"
McAuliffe used to teach math now she's history.
You get the idea.

 

[peachesncream]

i was six years old and my family and i were on vacation in florida. we had planned on attending the shuttle launch but something stopped us.we did watch it though.crazy how stuff happens.

 

[G-MAN]

I was a year old

 

[ryhoyarbie]

I was 4 at the time. I couldn't think back then. Come to think of it, I still can't think. I think I was watching kiddie shows like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow at the time, I think.

ryan

 

[sugarbritchez]

I was in 5th grade and we were watching it on TV...My teacher Mrs. Martin, was the first runner up on that shuttle trip. She fainted and fell to the floor right there......I will never forget that day. When she came to she just kept saying that could have been her, and that she was sad to lose her new friend. Now Mrs. Martin works for Nasa going from school to school teaching about the space shuttle and so forth.

 

[redBoobergurl]

I was in 5th grade and we were watching it on TV...My teacher Mrs. Martin, was the first runner up on that shuttle trip. She fainted and fell to the floor right there......I will never forget that day. When she came to she just kept saying that could have been her, and that she was sad to lose her new friend. Now Mrs. Martin works for Nasa going from school to school teaching about the space shuttle and so forth.

Wow, that's incredible, what a connection! How awful it must of been for her to hear the news! I would've fainted too!

Let's see, in 1986 I was a little over 4 years old and in preschool so I don't remember anything about it. My mom remembers it though. She described the footage like watching a train wreck, you wanted to turn away, but you just couldn't.

 

[sugarbritchez]

Yeah I think it is something that our class would never forget......it was like it was yesterday.........scary!!!!!

 

[Kimp the Shrimp]

I was in 5th grade and we were watching it on TV...My teacher Mrs. Martin, was the first runner up on that shuttle trip. She fainted and fell to the floor right there......I will never forget that day. When she came to she just kept saying that could have been her, and that she was sad to lose her new friend. Now Mrs. Martin works for Nasa going from school to school teaching about the space shuttle and so forth.

YOU WERE IN 5TH GRADE?????

I WAS IN 2ND AND AM LIKE 4-5 YRS YOUNGER (1978)