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Originally Posted by Madman
Its been 25 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy.
Seems like it's only been about 8 years.
I do remember the Challenger explosion; and not believing my girlfriend when she told me about it. Then I knew it was serious when she told me all of her soaps had been pre-empted.
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I was in Grade 10 math class when our Principal made the announcement. We all looked at each other, and then Greg asked, "Are they okay?" which made everyone laugh nervously.
One of the memorable world events of my lifetime.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
I was in grade 12, in the library studying for my Math departmental exams. The T.V. was on in the background but the volume was off. But for some reason some people were watching the shuttle launch.
I was heads down studying when I heard someone say that doesn't look normal. But they had the radio chatter going in the background and every thing sounded normal, I think they were announcing the solid rocket seperation. Then a few minutes after the very weird picture you saw above, they announced the explosion. I remember one girl actually started to cry when we heard that, and we all put down our study notes because we needed to see this.
There have been major disasters in the space program before, but this was our generations Apollo 13 to be honest. With Apollo 13 it dragged on for days, people were praying in the churches for those astronauts to get home, and the loss of radio signal during re-entry (and Cow can probably speak on this) was considered one of the longest few minutes in history.
In the case of the Challenger, it was just there, and then gone in an instance.
I will always remember the final words of the mission commander "roger . . . Go to Throttle up
Reagan's speech
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
This is the first news event that I remember. I was five years old and recall seeing the picture on the front page of the Herald and realising something bad had happened.
January 28, 1986
