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
Last edited by gdub520; 02/01/03 08:50 PM.
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