The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO.
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The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO. It was launched despite conditions being outside of specifications because the White House put pressure on NASA. Reagan wanted to be able to mention the launch in his Sate of the Union address. Which, indeed, he did.
Anyway, most US school children watched the explosion live, but, for unclear reasons, my class was not tuned in. However, the school principal came on the PA system and announced that the shuttle had just exploded, so we turned on the classroom telly then and watched it explode on replay.
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The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO. It was launched despite conditions being outside of specifications because the White House put pressure on NASA. Reagan wanted to be able to mention the launch in his Sate of the Union address. Which, indeed, he did.
Anyway, most US school children watched the explosion live, but, for unclear reasons, my class was not tuned in. However, the school principal came on the PA system and announced that the shuttle had just exploded, so we turned on the classroom telly then and watched it explode on replay.
@celesteh Regan is a bellend. And not the good kind
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The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO. It was launched despite conditions being outside of specifications because the White House put pressure on NASA. Reagan wanted to be able to mention the launch in his Sate of the Union address. Which, indeed, he did.
Anyway, most US school children watched the explosion live, but, for unclear reasons, my class was not tuned in. However, the school principal came on the PA system and announced that the shuttle had just exploded, so we turned on the classroom telly then and watched it explode on replay.
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The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO. It was launched despite conditions being outside of specifications because the White House put pressure on NASA. Reagan wanted to be able to mention the launch in his Sate of the Union address. Which, indeed, he did.
Anyway, most US school children watched the explosion live, but, for unclear reasons, my class was not tuned in. However, the school principal came on the PA system and announced that the shuttle had just exploded, so we turned on the classroom telly then and watched it explode on replay.
@celesteh My first exposure to 'too soon' bad taste jokes; 'Need Another Seven Astronauts' lives rent free in my head to this day...
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The Challenger space shuttle disaster took place FORTY YEARS AGO. It was launched despite conditions being outside of specifications because the White House put pressure on NASA. Reagan wanted to be able to mention the launch in his Sate of the Union address. Which, indeed, he did.
Anyway, most US school children watched the explosion live, but, for unclear reasons, my class was not tuned in. However, the school principal came on the PA system and announced that the shuttle had just exploded, so we turned on the classroom telly then and watched it explode on replay.
I bet Curt Cobain watched the Challenger explode while he was at school.
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@celesteh My first exposure to 'too soon' bad taste jokes; 'Need Another Seven Astronauts' lives rent free in my head to this day...
I don't recall that one.
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I bet Curt Cobain watched the Challenger explode while he was at school.
@celesteh just checked and he would’ve been 19 so I wouldn’t be so sure
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it was the afternoon in England, and we saw it explode live on telly (the school had linked up two large school TV sets with a coax cable and set aside a whole large space for several classes to watch it, thinking it would be a great breakthrough in science and technology. This incident and Chernobyl not long afterwards taught me at a relatively early age to not blindly worship tech/science "progress"...
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it was the afternoon in England, and we saw it explode live on telly (the school had linked up two large school TV sets with a coax cable and set aside a whole large space for several classes to watch it, thinking it would be a great breakthrough in science and technology. This incident and Chernobyl not long afterwards taught me at a relatively early age to not blindly worship tech/science "progress"...
I was in California, so time zones were not a problem for the lower 48 states.
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@celesteh just checked and he would’ve been 19 so I wouldn’t be so sure
@Siph I should have checked.
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