· Get a Cloudy Nights T-Shirt · Submit a Review / Article Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu… uh, User You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Speciality Forums >> Science! Astronomy & Space Exploration, and Others Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 neotesla Pooh-Bah Reged: 11/18/10 Loc: Canada Challenger Anniversary...       #5648991 - 01/28/13 07:07 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Jan 28th, 1986... Post Extras:       Mary B Vendor - Echo Astronomy and Electronics Reged: 05/21/10 Loc: Minnesota Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: neotesla]       #5649051 - 01/28/13 07:35 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I will never forget that day. I was at work where I sold computers, did software installs and some TV/VCR repair so I had a TV playing. Everyone else in the office building kept coming into my tiny office space so I finally parked a TV out on the counter where it could be watched. Had people in and out all day. Lots of tears. Post Extras:       Photobud super member Reged: 01/07/13 Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: Mary B]       #5649130 - 01/28/13 08:05 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I had stayed home from work that day to watch the raw feed from NASA on my big dish satellite TV. Watched all the pics of ice on the gantries and then the real time loss. Then hours of pics of debris falling and beginning recovery. Sickening and tragic! Post Extras:       llanitedave Humble Megalomaniac Reged: 09/26/05 Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: Photobud]       #5649496 - 01/28/13 11:34 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I had to leave before the launch to make it to class on time. It was a linguistics class, so nobody was following it. I didn't find out until hours later. My heart was broken. Post Extras:       jkaiser member Reged: 01/07/13 Loc: Wood River Junction, Rhode Isl... Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: llanitedave]       #5649768 - 01/29/13 07:03 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I was in high school during a drafting class when we got the news. I was at Cape canaveral for her maiden voyage it was the most fascinating thing I ever saw in my life so inspiring.....Then my son and I were listening to the Columbia reentry and sdaly he had to experience a shuttle disaster. Post Extras:       csa/montana Den Mama Reged: 05/14/05 Loc: montana Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: neotesla]       #5649970 - 01/29/13 10:13 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   A very sad day, indeed. I remember it well. Post Extras:       Skip Starlifter Driver Reged: 01/23/08 Loc: Fort Worth, Texas, USA Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: csa/montana]       #5650244 - 01/29/13 12:47 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I was at work. We were working on a proposal to NASA to help provide shuttle training and one of the Apollo astronauts was working with us. We had a couple of TVs in the big "war" room where we were working and we were all watching the launch. After the accident, none of us could get back to work. We were emotionally destroyed. Terrible day!! Post Extras:       PhilCo126 Carpal Tunnel Reged: 01/14/05 Loc: coastline of Belgium Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: Skip]       #5651964 - 01/30/13 10:16 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Most amazing was the announcement of this tragic accident at NASA-JPL in Pasadena California, where the world press were awaiting images of the planet Uranus taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft (closest flyby of Uranus occured on 24th January 1986)... Post Extras:       CounterWeight Postmaster Reged: 10/05/08 Loc: Cloudyopolis, OR. Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: PhilCo126]       #5653520 - 01/31/13 01:51 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   What a sad day it was I was at a meeting at SLAC and we were discussing something silly like no-one could figure out how to get the positron element working? Anyway I remember this fellow crashing into the conference room "turn on the TV, the shuttle just blew up!" Disbelief turned to astonishment. A catastrophic failure. Everything in the follwing minutes / hours seemed surreal. For some reason I kept thinking of Apollo 1... Post Extras:       Napersky Carpal Tunnel Reged: 01/27/10 Loc: Chicagoland Re: Challenger Anniversary... [Re: CounterWeight]       #5768009 - 03/31/13 01:39 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I was working for TTM Time Telephone Marketing calling people to renew magazine subscriptions. Everything stopped we watched the TV monitors. I thought this was in the summer. 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