January 28, 1986

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Stella

One of those days you will always remember.

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15 Responses to January 28, 1986

  1. waltzingmtilda's avatar waltzingmtilda says:
    January 28, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    Oh that first video…I’m crying.

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  2. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 28, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    That was so heartbreaking.

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  3. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 28, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    Many believe that the astronauts survived the explosion.

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  4. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    January 28, 2017 at 4:29 pm

    I was in early HS or Jr. High, and watched it live on TV in the classroom.

    Two days later, before the internet existed, schoolkids across America all knew 20 new sick Christa McAuliffe jokes. Two days.

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  5. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 28, 2017 at 4:50 pm

    I was in the Navy.

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    January 28, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    I was negotiating pricing on a few loads of domestic pipe (on the phone) when Louis, the sales manager I was talking too, said “The..the…the shuttle just blew up!!” I said – What??? He had his t.v. on in his office….. I couldn’t get any more details until after work…..

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  7. Sharon's avatar Sharon says:
    January 28, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    I had taken the afternoon off from my job to attend a class – doing part time college work – and when I came out to my car and started driving home, it was wall-to-wall coverage. Very hard to come to grips with.

    And to put it simply, it made me really ticked off when the investigation finally identified that Thiokol’s engineers who were in the know had been begging for a postponement in the launch because they knew those foam rings would not perform properly in the low prevailing low temps. Sickening.

    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781/30-years-after-disaster-challenger-engineer-still-blames-himself

    The first two paragraphs:

    “Thirty years ago, as the nation mourned the loss of seven astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger, Bob Ebeling was steeped in his own deep grief.

    “The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol had tried to stop the launch. Their managers and NASA overruled them.”

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  8. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    January 29, 2017 at 2:41 am

    Yes, I remember exactly where I was and what I did immediately after hearing the news. Some events leave a permanent mark.

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