Where were you? What were you doing when you heard about the explosion?

9/7/2013 9:06:23 AM

Considering that it happened on the morning of January 28, 1986, I was probably sucking a tit or something.

9/7/2013 9:12:28 AM

Washington DC, in pre school. I don't remember anything about it.

9/7/2013 9:15:28 AM

i was in kindergarten. i remember having a group conversation about what happened.

9/7/2013 9:19:47 AM

I remember being home from school. Maybe I was faking being sick or something. Anyway I watched it live on TV. Strange thing for a 7 year old to see.

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM. Reason : *]

9/7/2013 9:53:42 AM

At home, I remember seeing it on the news and my parents talking about it, but I was too young at the time to really understand.

9/7/2013 10:01:15 AM

^^where were you? I was out of school too; it was a snow day. Remember it perfectly seeing it explode and then looking at my mom like "wha...?"

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM. Reason : Sss]

9/7/2013 10:06:41 AM

Was 10 years old, home from school with my brother and sister. Was home from school (snow day in Blacksburg, VA). We watched on a Zenith 19" color tv with knobs

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM. Reason : wow a lot of people home from school]

9/7/2013 10:11:59 AM

I was four and in the hospital with what they thought was spinal meningitis. According to my parents, I watched it happen.

9/7/2013 10:39:34 AM

2nd grade in PA. I barely remember it, other than seeing it on the news and having a discussion about it in class. Fun fact: We moved to NC that summer.

9/7/2013 11:16:50 AM

Watching it happen on live TV during kindergarten.

9/7/2013 11:39:27 AM

In the womb...~5 months

9/7/2013 11:50:39 AM

I was just a twinkle in my dad's eye

9/7/2013 11:52:02 AM

Still a twinkle. But soon to not be.

9/7/2013 12:03:07 PM

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 7 months old. The space shuttle exploded. I cried.

9/7/2013 12:11:42 PM

I learned to masturbate because this made my cock so rock hard

9/7/2013 12:27:13 PM

Quote :

"Watching it happen on live TV during kindergarten."

9/7/2013 12:33:08 PM

^fake

no one had tv's in the classroom in 1986

9/7/2013 12:43:17 PM

^ bullshit

9/7/2013 12:52:11 PM

i mean i started school in 1990 and we definitely had tvs then, and they weren't new.

9/7/2013 12:58:48 PM

80's TV = 1 on a librarian cart you check out for watching tapes. def. not to hook up to cable

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 1:13 PM. Reason : ]

9/7/2013 1:07:59 PM

we had those rolly TVs in my bumfuck redneck K8 school in 1990, but they were just for VHS/LaserDisc (lol) and there were only a few in the "media center". we certainly didn't get cable until the late 90s

9/7/2013 1:24:34 PM

we definitely had fucking laserdisc in school around 1988 - i don't know wtf they were thinking when they bought that shit

^ shit, my bumfuck highschool still doesn't have cable

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 1:41 PM. Reason : ]

9/7/2013 1:40:24 PM

It's times like these when you realize you should quit tww because you re 13-18 years older than the rest

9/7/2013 2:29:50 PM

Was in grade 4. I remember this one very clearly. Saw the explosion on the news on TV with rest of the family.

9/7/2013 2:57:34 PM

NASA

Need Another Seven Astronauts

9/7/2013 3:06:40 PM

9/7/2013 3:22:05 PM

We were watching it in the school cafeteria live on WECT. We didn't have tv's in the classrooms then, but there were one or two in the school. We watched a lot of film strips well into the 90's even after we had VCR's, but when I was in elementary school they were still using a lot of the reel to reel film projectors.

9/8/2013 4:06:04 PM

3rd grade, watching on TV....I remember it well they turned it off and tried to say that everyone was likely Ok...

9/8/2013 5:11:26 PM

Well, if they turned it off quickly enough, they might have been telling you the truth. It's believed that the astronauts actually survived the explosion and didn't die until they hit the ocean several minutes later.

9/8/2013 6:56:14 PM

yeah there was evidence that several astronauts attempted to activate emergency systems of some sort and were conscious the following seconds after the explosion. They likely had all blacked out by the time what remained of the cockpit hit the ocean since they were so high up and were depressurized.

9/8/2013 7:15:51 PM

Kindergarten. I remember crying b/c my teacher was crying and it just seemed like the thing to do.

9/8/2013 7:16:10 PM

I do remember being a little confused as a child about it... My dad was telling me about how they were putting the shuttle program on hold until they collected most of the debris and figured out what happened... I thought to myself "how are they going to go into space and collect all the debris if it keeps floating away without sending another shuttle up to get it"

My dad explained that it hadn't gotten to orbit yet and came crashing down into the ocean mostly.

this is when I conceptualized space (mostly) as it is... instead of being a big place that once you get there you just float around forever, I learned about orbits, etc. (granted it was an understanding on a kindergarten level)

[Edited on September 8, 2013 at 7:43 PM. Reason : ]

9/8/2013 7:41:31 PM

I was 3 and half when it happened, I just remember adults and the news talking about the Challenger disaster every once in awhile and when I was old enough I learned about the explosion through the news.


When Columbia disintegrated during it's re-entry, I was in my dorm room (my sophmore year). I remember being on the phone talking to my mom, she was upset because they just found out my sister was pregnant (unplanned) and it was also her birthday. I had the news on, playing in the background and they cut away to breaking news and I hushed my mom and told her to put on the tv. I remember the images of the pieces or what they called "trails" going across the sky and I thought well where is the shuttle these trails are supposed to be coming from? I was confused. It was so sad.

9/9/2013 11:01:42 AM

I watched the Columbia accident in the lobby of Talley on the one tv that always had CNN

9/9/2013 12:06:17 PM

9/9/2013 1:40:36 PM

i too was sucking on tits

9/9/2013 1:53:52 PM

I was still in the womb

9/9/2013 2:10:06 PM

Quote :

"80's TV = 1 on a librarian cart you check out for watching tapes. def. not to hook up to cable"

Yeah, I definitely remember TV's in 3rd grade, which was '86/'87. And yes, the teachers had to sign up for them because there were just a few of the for the entire school. Mostly for tapes, but they had rabbit ears on them so I assume they could pick up the locals.

9/9/2013 2:31:07 PM

No clue

I was a live and whatnot, but I don't remember it at all.

9/9/2013 2:34:21 PM

I was five and at home. I remember watching it live on an old TV that had a turn dial to change channels no remote. I knew it was a big deal but didn't understand why.

[Edited on September 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM. Reason : .]

9/9/2013 2:38:24 PM

^ yeah, we had one of those in '86 too. guess who got to be the remote when my dad wanted the channel changed....

9/9/2013 2:40:44 PM

i was the same age when Challenger happened as college freshmen were when 9/11 happened. (6)

9/10/2013 3:35:29 PM

Oh man did I look cheesy.

9/10/2013 4:12:39 PM

I was alive.

A lot of you were alive but werent people.

I was.

9/10/2013 4:17:26 PM