20 years

[starfallz]

I'm sure there will be a bunch of reminders of this today....

I still remember twenty years ago, sitting in my 5th grade class watching the twin trails on the TV set. The boys were drawing pictures of it for weeks later and I was disgusted with them. Maybe it was their way of dealing. I don't know.

Today, it still makes me incredibly sad. A lot of dreams died that day.

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[vond.livejournal.com]

Also, as rattrap posted yesterday, yesterday was the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire.

It's interesting to contrast the reaction to Challenger/Columbia with Apollo 1.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

january has been a pretty shitty month for the space program.

[purple-phys.livejournal.com]

We were talking about that this morning. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (I was in kindergarten), but I do remember sitting in the cafeteria and watching subsequent shuttle launches. It was just the coolest thing to watch the shuttle take off. I kinda miss that.

[unmutual.livejournal.com]

I was eight. We were in Florida for the week, and we watched the launch on TV. I was sitting on the floor next to my grandfather's recliner. NASA has a nice memorial up on their site for Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia that made me get all teary-eyed, remembering.

Challenger is quite possibly the first memory I have of a world event, something bigger than just what happened in my little neighborhood.

[amiable-geek.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about it before, but I'm now thinking about the different reactions to the Challenger and the Columbia. Both were viewed as disasters, but Challenger was more of a traumatic experience, I think. And it's not just because of the passenger list, either. Could we have become *that* jaded from the first loss to the second one? Sure, there were investigations. But we've moved on from Columbia much more quickly than we did from Challenger. In fact, *have* we moved on from Challenger?

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is the first year I forgot. I was a college freshman, stopped by the dorm mailbox and noticed a launch on the big screen TV. They were new then, so I joined the crowd to watch. I remember a few people thought it had to be a movie, no way that could really happen.