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Twenty Years Ago Today...
Bill Harris
post Jan 28 2006, 09:59 PM
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...the Challenger distaster occurred.

I was at work, we heard the news and rushed upstairs to the Administrative Hearing Room and switched on the TV. There were replays of the explosion, and I fully expected the Shuttle to pop out of the fireball and glide to Earth. It didn't, and we grew up a bit more that day.

A moment of silence, please.

--Bill


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edstrick
post Jan 29 2006, 10:53 AM
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I had been working all night on my eventually never finished dissertation, was lying in bed before going to sleep and had turned the radio and tape deck on to listen to and audio tape record the launch. I was listening to long-range-AM KTRH Houston, as KLBJ Austin wasn't carrying the launch.

I'm not sure whether the reporter was at the cape, I think he was watching a monitor of the launch...

After the Go at Throttle up, the crew's last word, and the crackle that accompanied the breakup, the reporter's voice changed, he said he couldn't see the shuttle, wasn't sure what was happening.... Then when flight narration reported "Obviously a major malfunction", I knew something bad had happened.

When another voice (I think) in the com-link stated "No Downlink", I felt like I'd been dipped in liquid nitrogen, this feeling washed over me. I got up, pulled clothes on, and ran next door to where my brother was doing some yard work, hollering "The shuttle has exploded".

I didn't get much sleep, with watching the unending coverage on the networks and crying.
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