I was 3 and I remember my mom being sad.
Same for me.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
I was 3 and I remember my mom being sad.
Not born yet.
Seventh grade. Didn't see the video until I got home. Up until that point, all of us kids were convinced that they had made it out alive.
One of those seminal moments that you'll always remember where you were and how you felt at the time.
One of those seminal moments that you'll always remember where you were and how you felt at the time.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
in school. was 10yrs old
10 years old, 4th grade, special event to have the TVs rolled in and cable tv hooked up. Huge deal because of the teacher on board. Several weeks worth of lessons on experiments in space and we did one (growing lima beans?) that I think they had scheduled to do in space in order to compare results. That's the first time I remember wanting to be a scientist/engineer and figure things out and design things.
my soul was somewhere in the cosmos waiting to descend and bless the earth with my vibe
I was a senior in high school, in the library returning books for Sociology class and people were sitting with the Librarian watching, so I stood there and watched. When it blew up we thought it was the booster rockets or something, but the Librarian reached up and turned off the TV and told us to go back to whatever we were doing. So, I walked up to my Sociology class and told the teacher that I thought the Space Shuttle had blown up or something. He told me not to cause a ruckus and to settle down but I insisted that he turn on the TV and right about then the Principal came on the loud speaker and requested that all classes turn on their TVs and pray... crazy. Never forget it.
I wasnt thar!
Thanks. I was trying to remember information from 2 years ago from the History or Discovery channel. Makes you wonder: could they have survived if they had a parachute? Watching the explosion made me think there was no way for them to survive that. I guess it might have been possible if the right contingency was in place.Kmarion wrote:
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I found out 20 years later that they died on impact not from the explosion. That haunted me more that anything. I can't believe it has been 22 years.http://history.nasa.gov/kerwin.htmlNASA Headquarters
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Dear Admiral Truly:
The search for wreckage of the Challenger crew cabin has been completed. A team of engineers and scientists has analyzed the wreckage and all other available evidence in an attempt to determine the cause of death of the Challenger crew. This letter is to report to you on the results of this effort. The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the explosion was masked. Our final conclusions are:
* the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
* the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
* the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure.
Our inspection and analyses revealed certain facts which support the above conclusions, and these are related below: The forces on the Orbiter at breakup were probably too low to cause death or serious injury to the crew but were sufficient to separate the crew compartment from the forward fuselage, cargo bay, nose cone, and forward reaction control compartment. The forces applied to the Orbiter to cause such destruction clearly exceed its design limits. The data available to estimate the magnitude and direction of these forces included ground photographs and measurements from onboard accelerometers, which were lost two-tenths of a second after vehicle breakup.
Two independent assessments of these data produced very similar estimates. The largest acceleration pulse occurred as the Orbiter forward fuselage separated and was rapidly pushed away from the external tank. It then pitched nose-down and was decelerated rapidly by aerodynamic forces. There are uncertainties in our analysis; the actual breakup is not visible on photographs because the Orbiter was hidden by the gaseous cloud surrounding the external tank. The range of most probable maximum accelerations is from 12 to 20 G's in the vertical axis. These accelerations were quite brief. In two seconds, they were below four G's; in less than ten seconds, the crew compartment was essentially in free fall. Medical analysis indicates that these accelerations are survivable, and that the probability of major injury to crew members is low.
It seems they lost consciousness at least.
i have no clue, i was only 5
watched it live on tv, cry ed myself to sleep that night, i was only 8. at the time in my class we were doing a project on space.
sitting and being a baby waiting for my first bday
I wasn't born yet, but i remember the other one, was that Columbia?
I remember watching that one on the news.
I remember watching that one on the news.
Wow. You guys were so emotional as kids. I didn't cry about shit like that when I was a kid. Even 9/11 left me unfazed. Even 7/7 which was like 3 years ago or something.
I know it's bad and stuff but to cry over stuff like that......I aint gonna turn this into a battle so i'll stop. I'll just say when I saw the other space disaster I was like "holy shit look at that"
Infact that was my response to pretty much anything I've ever seen in my life that's out of the norm or pretty bad.
I know it's bad and stuff but to cry over stuff like that......I aint gonna turn this into a battle so i'll stop. I'll just say when I saw the other space disaster I was like "holy shit look at that"
Infact that was my response to pretty much anything I've ever seen in my life that's out of the norm or pretty bad.
in Elementary school, watching .... I remember how cool I thought it was ........... then boom ......... talk about a reality check there
Same for me.Mek-Izzle wrote:
Wow. You guys were so emotional as kids. I didn't cry about shit like that when I was a kid. Even 9/11 left me unfazed. Even 7/7 which was like 3 years ago or something.
I know it's bad and stuff but to cry over stuff like that......I aint gonna turn this into a battle so i'll stop. I'll just say when I saw the other space disaster I was like "holy shit look at that"
Infact that was my response to pretty much anything I've ever seen in my life that's out of the norm or pretty bad.
I seem to remember some comments made in a german paper that my uncle sent us. Apparently, there was a German news crew filming the launch down-range and they had picked up transmissions from the shuttle crew AFTER the crew modual had separated from the rest of the shuttle. Aparently, there were people being heard praying, screaming "oh god" and such. I really wish that I could find that paper, or some type of info leading to the report. As it seems, there was a report that a few of the crews personal emergency oxygen tanks had been turned on after the explosion, and would lead me to believe that in fact, a few of them were concious upon impact with the ocean. What a terrible way to go. Obviously, you don't forsee a complete desintegration of a spacecraft, but had the modual had a built in separation capability from the Shuttle itself, (similar to the F-111 bomber), they may have had a chance.
In the end, I believe that NASA is doing the right thing with it's current assesment of the new Orion heavy lift spacecraft. A simple, separate crew capsual is the way to go. Keep it simple, and go with what works at minimal cost.
I was in 6th grade at the time, and clearly remember getting home and placing the American flag in it's stand in the front yard. The astronauts were hero's to me, and I had followed the space program ever since my brother had turned me onto it at an early age. The stories of the Mercury 7, Gemini and Apollo programs showed just what drive we had as Americans.
Now that I'm older, I realize that those who died are just like anybody else. They were doing their job, and realized the possibilities of what could happen. In either case. The memories of that day will stick with me for a very long time.
In the end, I believe that NASA is doing the right thing with it's current assesment of the new Orion heavy lift spacecraft. A simple, separate crew capsual is the way to go. Keep it simple, and go with what works at minimal cost.
I was in 6th grade at the time, and clearly remember getting home and placing the American flag in it's stand in the front yard. The astronauts were hero's to me, and I had followed the space program ever since my brother had turned me onto it at an early age. The stories of the Mercury 7, Gemini and Apollo programs showed just what drive we had as Americans.
Now that I'm older, I realize that those who died are just like anybody else. They were doing their job, and realized the possibilities of what could happen. In either case. The memories of that day will stick with me for a very long time.
I never existed.
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Ditto. Watching it on those POS tv's.Kmarion wrote:
I was in elementary school (Fourth grade I think).
That's because you're awesome. More so than anyone else on the planet.Mek-Izzle wrote:
Wow. You guys were so emotional as kids. I didn't cry about shit like that when I was a kid. Even 9/11 left me unfazed. Even 7/7 which was like 3 years ago or something.
I know it's bad and stuff but to cry over stuff like that......I aint gonna turn this into a battle so i'll stop. I'll just say when I saw the other space disaster I was like "holy shit look at that"
Infact that was my response to pretty much anything I've ever seen in my life that's out of the norm or pretty bad.
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Two of them switched on their personal oxygen systems. I believe that much is known. That means they survived at least through the explosion and possibly until the impact. Bummer. I was ten miles from the final impact zone of the second shuttle at my one living Grandparent's house. It rattled windows in the house. I was just there visiting and picked a hell of a time to do it...
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Man!!!
You brats make me feel OLD!!!!
I was 26, waiting for the lift-off, and running late for work.
There were holds on and it got to the point that I had to leave.
I'd just got to my car when my Dad came running out with the news.
My response......." Don't screw around, NASA doesn't make mistakes like that".
You brats make me feel OLD!!!!
I was 26, waiting for the lift-off, and running late for work.
There were holds on and it got to the point that I had to leave.
I'd just got to my car when my Dad came running out with the news.
My response......." Don't screw around, NASA doesn't make mistakes like that".
Rip
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I was in kindergarten and they wheeled in a tv just to show the launch. Everyone was so excited because it had the first woman astronaut on board. Then it blew up and my teacher burst into tears. The rest of us went back to our blocks.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
I was in 4th grade. We had all sorts of jokes about NASA. Need another seven astronauts, etc. Ah the good old daysJohnG@lt wrote:
I was in kindergarten and they wheeled in a tv just to show the launch. Everyone was so excited because it had the first woman astronaut on board. Then it blew up and my teacher burst into tears. The rest of us went back to our blocks.
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it