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I live in Titusville, FL, across the river from the Space Center.
It was one of the few times it had gotten to freezing in Florida, so everyone had turned their sprinklers on over night to make icecicles in the trees and such. My family and I were in the front yard that morning, playing in the ice and watching the shuttle launch.
Granted, I was 3.5 years old, but I can still recall seeing the shuttle split in the sky above me.
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i was in my 1st grade class watching it on tv when it happened. you remember everything about those things. we were all on the floor b/c we were in another class, there were like 4 classes watching it.
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I was in grade school, watching it on TV.
My wife on the other hand, was in the yard of her school in Florida, watching it blow up basically right over her head.
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Originally posted by Outback Gal:
They keep talking about how we all remember where we were when the challenger exploded, but what is amazing is that there is a whole group of kids (16 and younger) out there that were not alive when it happened.
-Christy
i never thought about it like that as far as an entire generation that didnt witness that day...but they had to witness 9-11-01 and therefore should be exempt from having to witness anymore such tragedy...us older ones included
u all are making me feel pretty old right now...i was a highschool senior and it was during finals...i didn't have to go to school that day til like 1130...i woke up to my radio and the dj talking about the shuttle...his show was really good at playing practical jokes on radio and sucking the fans in so at first i thought he was bullsquatting...but something about his tone made me go downstairs and tell mom to turn on the news...and there it was  ....
this sucks but to my system isn't as shocking as the challenger, i guess because at this point in the world i know that even the unimaginable can happen and back then nothing bad had happened in my young world...plus this group of astronauts was not made a part of our life as the shuttle group was...plus the images of this catastrophic failure are so different at this point from the challenger pics...it was so close to the ground still that so many images were really clear of what happened, particulary to zoomed in shot of the cockpit being blown away from the rest of the orbiter
and ironically, they mentioned today that nasa was getting their 'teacher in space' program back up and running...the understudy to christa macauliffe (sp) is scheduled to be the first teacher go up
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I was in 6th grade, and when the kids who went home from lunch came back, they had news of the shuttle exploding. I didn't believe them until our teacher confirmed it when class restarted, and then went on teaching. No TVs, no breaking of the news to the school during the morning. Stupid Catholic School pretty much acted like it didn't happen, and went on with the day as planned. 
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I was in the eighth grade at O. Trent Bonner Junior High in Danville, VA. We were standing around talking during first lunch when a teacher came up and informed us what had happened. Sad day.
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I think I was in Fourth grade in Mr. Ernst's class. This was in Dover DE. I remember all of the kids being so silent and wondering what to think when the boosters blew. I knew something was wrong even before they said anything... It just didn't look right. If you think about it, that sight (the rockets going in dif directions and smoke) is kinda like the towers falling. You just saw it sooo damn many times that you got jaded to it. It disgusted me back then, as does the sight of the falling towers now.
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I was still in my moms stomach. 
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Originally posted by PackRat:
Todays events made me do some thinking about that.
I was in my 4th grade classroom at Carl S. Conlee Elementary School in Las Cruces, NM. I remember our teacher, Ms. Burke, started crying when the pricipal made the announcement.
Ironically, I lived at White Sands Missle Range in NM when NASA landed the Columbia there in 1982. That was big time news for WSMR back then.
I think I was in 4th grade, in class.
I remember the Columbia landing at White Sands, and going down to see it. I lived in Alamogordo at the time.
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