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immortalis88 t1_j6bklbq wrote

Reply to comment by scorpyo72 in My Personal Story About Challenger by MoabEngineer

I’m 44 and I was in elementary school at the time. We watched live from class and I can remember how the room went from excited and lots of talking to pretty much dead silence. The only sounds you could hear were light sobs and tears falling. I still get emotional thinking about that day.

Then fast forward many years later in 98 or 99, I was in college and taking a Space Science course. My professor actually knew Christa McAuliffe and he wept in front of class while talking about it.

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zoinkability t1_j6fqxv8 wrote

I was in sixth grade and had a similar experience. We were in NH so Christa McAuliffe was a local hero of sorts. We were all pulled out of class to watch the launch in a common area, only to see the explosion and the see it replayed a bunch more times. Shocking and saddening.

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