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"They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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God."
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Remember watching in school in 7th grade.
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TIL - 19B is two years older than me.
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:27 AM
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5th grade, and probably the biggest event that had happened up to that time. 9/11 probably takes the cake though. Remember both days well.
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I was in 6th grade and home sick.
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:30 AM
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TV channel had switched from Price is Right to cover the launch.
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9th grade and was home sick as well.
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:31 AM
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I don't remember what I was watching, but very well could have been Price is Right as well.
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Odds are high. Alternative was soap operas right?***
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Orange Immortal [62394]
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Yup***
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:43 AM
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Re: I was in 6th grade and home sick.
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Jan 28, 2025, 1:47 PM
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A few years ago my brother and I were talking about this, and we both remember being sick and at our Grandmother's house watching the launch from her living room. Oddly, we don't remember each other being there. Both of us must have been in shock at what we saw.
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Obligatory - this was in the Charlotte Observer next day
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I remember that***
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Jan 28, 2025, 2:16 PM
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:36 AM
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I was at my Grandpa's house in Pasadena. He worked for JPL ...Jet Propulsion Laboratories. He was very distraught when it happened. One of my relatives asked him if there was any chance they could survive and that got him even more stressed. He thought the question was ridiculous. I remember that day as well.
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Crass was in 9th grade, not sick.***
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:37 AM
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KMS was in kindergarten, watching in the sky above us since I'm just 30 min
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south of Cape Canaveral. We got sent home early that day.
Pieces of the shuttle were found on the beach in my neighborhood.
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Other MSynan
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Jan 28, 2025, 11:52 AM
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Grew up in Lake, so they were marched out to the playground to watch it explode too
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I was on my first day
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Jan 28, 2025, 12:20 PM
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working after I graduated from college
seems like a long time ago.
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Remember watching it in class in first grade. Still hard to even fathom that I watched people die like that and then had to listen to our teacher explain it to us. I can't imagine how she felt.
And absolutely one of the greatest presidential speeches of all time. Reagan was on another level compared to most of our presidents when it came to speaking to the people.
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Greenr was Pre-K, probably at school in Clover and I remember
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Jan 28, 2025, 12:25 PM
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nothing from that day.
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From my HS about 70 miles up the coast - could see the flumes in sky
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Jan 28, 2025, 12:31 PM
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Explosion was at around 11:40 ET. Launches had become so routine that they didn’t “wheel “ the tvs into the classroom to watch anymore.
Just before noon class was let out for lunch and we were an open campus so could leave for that glorious 50 minutes each day. Usually everyone hustling to the parking lot - but that day we just stopped in our tracks and stared. Very surreal. We didn’t know what had happened 20 minutes earlier.
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Need Another Seven Astronauts
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Jan 28, 2025, 1:38 PM
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6th grade joke, Selwyn Elementary.
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NOOO, I MEANT BUD LIGHT!***
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Grade 9, I was walking into the library and heard Miss Gilbert gasp.
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Jan 28, 2025, 2:06 PM
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She was watching it on one of those TVs that they put on the rolling carts that are way too tall for that kinda weight. Didn’t really register with me what had happened until I saw some tears rolling down her face.
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 2:09 PM
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Dang, I'm old AF. I was working in an office in Clemson that day. One of my student employees came in and told us what had happened.
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I hope the guy in the bottom row in the middle wasn't driving
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Jan 28, 2025, 2:17 PM
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Also, you guys are fugging old.
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dayum, i must be old as dirt, i was 4 years out of college, married and working
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Jan 28, 2025, 3:00 PM
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my #### off when this occurred.
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7 years out and working my arseoff also***
Jan 28, 2025, 8:30 PM
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 6:58 PM
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3rd grade, Lyman Elementary. They brought most of us to cafeteria to watch.
Wheeled TV out to watch. I remember all the teachers gasping, crying and one running to turn the TV off. Principal turned volume down and TV away from kids, as he continued to watch.
Sad, sad day.
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 7:04 PM
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Jeffcoat?
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 7:05 PM
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Simmons.
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 7:08 PM
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We were in the same grade - different teachers
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Re: "They waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
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Jan 28, 2025, 7:11 PM
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Holy ####! Haha small world!
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Re: We got underway for recovery ops that afternoon
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Jan 28, 2025, 8:42 PM
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Most of the ships in Norfolk got underway. We never saw anything but a buddy of mine was on a salvage ship that recovered a ton of stuff. Pretty graphic.
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