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Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Challenger blowing up shortly after launch... Who remembers where or what you were doing??? I was sitting in the emergency room soon to go into surgery for a ruptured appendix...
35 Years Ago Today...
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I guess you can say that... I can still remember comming out of the operating room going into recovery and hearing the nurses say that was bad... So I said what was bad... Nurse says you... You dumb ass that was the worst case of a ruptured appendix they ever had... I had about 5 drains comming out of me....
triple_duece
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Was in high school wondering why some of the teachers were crying, only to find out a few minutes later. Think it happened around lunch time.
bigten05
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Was still in dads sack. Bunch of old fuggars in here. I asked my daughter if they learned anything about it in school or if it was brought up today and she never heard of it. I remember learning about it when I was young in school.
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triple_duece
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What? Couldn’t walk uphill in the snow barefooted? Pussy lol
We just watched a good show on Netflix about this. NASA and Thyacol new there was a problem with the O rings. Fear of losing funding and not keeping the schedule forced the launch when some engineers advised against it. It never should have happened.
I think I was in 8th grade.
I think I was in 8th grade.
Ohiosam
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I was at a fruit grower’s meeting at the county extension office in Canfield. Heard about it on the truck radio as I was leaving.
I was working full time AGR at the National Guard Armory in Lebanon OH - I was the only person there that day.
Remember going out right away and putting the flag at half-staff.
I remember it sucked, very sad.
And I remember the bad jokes started the next day.
Remember going out right away and putting the flag at half-staff.
I remember it sucked, very sad.
And I remember the bad jokes started the next day.
triple_duece
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This is what happened. Interesting video and will make you think about the shortcuts we take in our life. Please watch.
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Interesting video...And yes you gotta wonder how many shortcuts are taken in life... It's one thing to take a shortcut when that shortcut is only affecting the person taking it... However when someone takes a shortcut that could affect another's life is where the line should be drawn...
NAC1989
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Although I wasn’t alive for this I remember learning about it in school and watching the videos of it. I do remember watching the shuttle Columbia burn up on reentry to the atmosphere in 2003 and that’s hard to believe that’s been that long ago. I’ve always had a fascination with space/astronomy and I find it mind blowing to watch Elon Musks Space X launches now and then watch the rockets return autonomously and land on a ship to be reused. I still can’t imagine what’s going through the astronauts minds as they wait to launch and during the launch, I’d be nervous as hell!!!