Posted on 01/28/2024 11:17:11 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
2:24 Today, Sunday January 28, 2024, is the 38th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion that took the lives of an entire crew, a loss that deeply grieved Americans across the nation, per WGAL.
The seven NASA astronauts were killed 73 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to History.com. The site noted that prior to the disaster, the launch was delayed for several days because of weather and technical issues.
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One of the very few days that I remember where I was, and when.
I remember someone I knew was watching it live, and then told me the news. It was depressing and sad. The failures of the U.S. space program were rare, but still must be remembered.
I reminder it well
I was in grade school in the lunch line
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Crowd Reaction: Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion January 28, 1986
https://rumble.com/vsc4il-crowd-reaction-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-january-28-1986.html
Grade school also for me
I remember the room I was sitting in.
That was way back when you had to buy newspapers to learn anything. The San Francisco Examiner published an early afternoon edition that day with pictures. I remember it was a rainy day and after leaving work I had to hide the paper with the cover story under my coat after buying it from an outdoor newsstand.
I was a manager in the cable TV business back then.
The office always had TVs on all over the place—so of course the Challenger mission was on all the TVs.
I was on the floor relaxing with the staff and we all watched in shock together.
I was living in Arcadia CA and working in Orange CA. I stopped in a 7/11 on Baldwin ave in Arcadia for my coffee and everyone was watching the TV monitor. I had no idea what had happened until I started watching what they were.
Very sad day indeed.
“Obviously a major malfunction,” said Stephen A. Nesbitt of Mission Control. “We have no downlink.” And then, after a long pause: “We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded.”
I was in IBM BLD 9 across from JSC. I had been assigned that flight as a tester.
I was at work - Data Procession Center - I had just walked into one of the tape libraries when I heard about it
No Capsule Escape Propulsion System
I was doing CQ duty at unit I was stationed at in the army. I heard a radio report from one of the officer’s offices. It sounded like a live report of major news.
I followedd a couple officers into the day room. They had the TV on and they were just starting a repeat of the launch. After the spacecraft exploded, one of the officers looked at me and said my face had gone completely white.
Too soon?
Same here (I, too, was in grade school when it happened). We watched it on TV.
I was involved in a plane crash/accident at JFK airport that day believe it or not. I worked on the ramp for Fedex, back then it was known as “Federal Express” and my job was to unload the planes of all the cargo but before that as the plane taxied in, I had to stand by the edge of the left wing and hold up a torch/flashlight so the guy marshalling the plane in at the front knew where the wing limit was.
Well lo and behold, our ramp was near El Al, the Israeli cargo company and no offense to Israel, but that damn company was run by slobs. All they time they would leave their equipment all over the place.
Well all of a sudden as the Fedex plane was pulling in this snow storm came in, real heavy snow making visibility practically zero. You could probably find a weather report talking about it in some weather record website for NYC. And guess what happened next?
All of a sudden in front of me was an El Al loader lifter which is a machine that elevates to the height of the aircraft and takes off cargo containers. So I started yelling, waving my torch like crazy, and too late. CRAAAAACK.....The wing hit it and cracked in half...ooops
The rest of the day we were filling out reports with the pilot going bananas, really pissed off. And in the office they had the TV news on and we saw the report of the Challenger blowing up. Not a good day for flying.
I was a young engineering student and was devastated by this.
It was only after working a few years that I realized that NASA had already turned into a pointless bureaucracy and the that the shuttle program itself was not nothing like what was originally intended.
“No, Christie, not that button!”
What color were Christie’s eyes?
Blue. One blew here, and one blew there.
Still too soon?
Senators like Glenn and other congresscritters turned NASA into a jobs program. Space exploration got downgraded. Then nitwits like Hansen turned it into a political environmental program.
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