38 years ago today...

[prfesser]

I was in grad school at Virginia Tech when I got the news of the Challenger explosion from one of the other students. Did not believe him at first.

 

[sriegel]

Woke up to my clock radio AFN broadcast in Okinawa giving the recap. Due to time zones, it was all over before we knew it.

 

[Rob Campbell]

I was in grad school at Virginia Tech when I got the news of the Challenger explosion from one of the other students. Did not believe him at first.

I earned my bachelors at Virginia Tech. Class of 1983.

 

[modeltrains]

I was in grad school at Virginia Tech

Ahh, good ol' Bleaksburg!
Went to VAT 1981-82
Was at work at hobby shop in VA Beach VA that fateful day.
A very sad event in the logbook of spaceflight history.

 

[K'Tesh]

I posted this thread seven years ago...

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/god-speed-challenger-sts-51-l.138580/

 

[NTP2]

Wow a lot of people were at VT it’s hard to imagine most of you as one of the college kids!

 

[dhbarr]

I was walking home from school, and the replay was on my friends TV when we went by his place.

 

[aerostadt]

I was at my desk at Thiokol. I was shocked.

 

[OverTheTop]

I woke up to the news . I still have the newspaper from that day.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I don't remember where I was

 

[Rob Campbell]

Wow a lot of people were at VT it’s hard to imagine most of you as one of the college kids!

We were. Now that was back in the day when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, the computer lab was filled with the sound of card readers and dot matrix printers, and the last Confederate soldier was still hiding in the woods, not realizing the war was over.

 

[goose_in_co]

I was sitting in the waiting room waiting for my first son to be born, and they had the TV running. Watched the launch, not knowing that it was a replay, and then heard the newscaster say, "it happens right about here..." and I thought, what happens? A couple of seconds later, I learned what happened.
Six children were born that day at Garland hospital that day. My Son is now 38 and working at a nuclear power plant.

 

[Cape Byron]

I was doing shift work. Switched on the tv seconds before the launch.

 

[teepot]

We were watching the launch on TV. When the event happened I knew it was a catastrophe. My parents were watching the launch in person. i can still picture it in my mind.

 

[NTP2]

My Son is now 38 and working at a nuclear power plant.

That is a pretty cool job! He a engineer or technician?

 

[goose_in_co]

That is a pretty cool job! He a engineer or technician?

Right now he is the certification teacher. He says that the hours are better.

 

[Back_at_it]

I had been thrown out of class for one reason or another (not uncommon for me back then) and was standing in the hallway outside the classroom when the principal came over the PA with the news. They first gathered the entire school in the auditorium and they played the news coverage on the overhead projector for about an hour. At lunch time they let us go home if we wanted. Those that didn't have a way home stayed in the auditorium the rest of the day.

I went home and watched the news coverage the rest of the day.