I was in fourth grade. This morning is one of my first real memories, and the prologue to Skylights is pure autobiography.
Rest in Peace: Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judy Resnick, Mike Smith, Cmdr. Dick Scobee, and Ron McNair.
Thirty years ago today
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Thank you I wasn’t in fourth grade but I too remember when this happened because I thought it was cool that Christi was going into space because she had always wanted to go.
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I was in 10th grade at that point. The whole school was called into the gym and the principal told us it had happened. We all cried. Even the seniors cried.
My mom was home sick that day and saw the live launch coverage. She swears to this day that the footage she saw the first time around was never shown again. That it was edited between the time it happened and the time the special reports started airing.
The Challenger explosion is a huge deal. I’m a little teary just thinking about it. My grandson knows all about it, even. In my hours we’re really wanting to go back to the moon and build a huge staging platform there to shoot vessels in the direction of Mars. Some tiny non-cynical part of me thinks the reason we are not doing that already is because we lost these astronauts.
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I grew up watching shuttle launches in Florida (we would go outside at school to watch the sky), and I can only imagine what it must have been like for you all to see. I was only a few days old when Challenger exploded; I read this article today and had no idea about any of this: http://gawker.com/thirty-years-ago-the-challenger-crew-plunged-alive-and-1755727930
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