I Remember Challenger

I was both listening to the radio and watching TV when that happened.
I got absolutely totally shaken and much hurt to the deepest.
For a few months after that I was feeling a very deep bleeding wound in the deepest in my heart...

I was living in Tampa Florida. I was driving on the interstate and happened to look out the driver side window. There was a plume of smoke in the far distance. I knew that the shuttle was going up that day and thought "that was odd...

Do you remeber hearing the kids talk about What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts.....sick just sick.

I had heard the shuttle exploded while in my last classes. I thought the kids were making it up unitl I came home...

Why can't I? Two days before I had given birth to my second child. This was in the day where you stayed for a couple of days. I had dozed off that morning with the t.v. on. When I sort of woke up, I hear the person on the t.v. say...

I was still at school and the class i was in was watching the shuttle launch as a treat. I always wanted to go in to space and was a space nut , so this was very exciting to me.
As we sat down and the launch began I was really enjoying...

I remember Challenger, what a shock it was, so sad.

I was working for Gould Computer Systems in Fort Lauderdale back then. My office was on the upper floor of a building and our windows faced NE so we could always see the shuttle launch when it climbed high enough, weather permitting...

I have to be careful what I say given some of the things I write here - I wouldn't want anyone to be able to identify me. But, it's fair to say that as much as anyone can make the claim, in my family space exploration is a "family...

i was in school when it exploded.we were watching it in the auditoriun .it was a schock.now to find out years latter that politics helped lead to that disaster makes me sick.

We were having a great time in the Chicago area, having dominated football - and pop culture - with our Chicago Bears!  Our victory came on January 26th, so it was a high we would be on for a long time...
we thought.
I was in my...