80's-90's MEMORIES
80's-90's MEMORIES
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- I remember exactly where I was when I learned about this, and I remember crying.Nairn
- I was home at lunch from school, expressly to watch the launch (as I always did) on TV. My mum and I just sat there with our jaws dropped.Continuity
- I remember this, just thinking those people are now in atomic pieces.shapesalad
- It's horrid to think they likely survived the explosion and spent literal minutes hurtling towards the ground, powerlessly knowing they were doomed.Nairn
- I remember asking my parents why they didn’t use escape pods to leave the space shuttle. They then had to explain that it wasn’t like in films.Chimp
- hard, cold realization of sudden death as a childBeeswax
- I was home sick from school this day, sitting on the couch watching the Price is Right around 11:30 when they interrupted with the news, it was horrible.elahon
- I was 12, in class we watched it, ill never forget it.YakuZoku
- More people have died in Ukraine in the past few weeks than in that one moment. Let's not forget that.shapesalad
- I don't really have any memories of seeing this on the news. I do remember the joke that was all round the school the next day...microkorg
- What does N.A.S.A stand for?microkorg
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Astronautsmicrokorg - Elementary school classroom live on tv and they had made a big deal to make sure they stopped class to watch.monospaced
- I remember that joke microYakuZoku
- Naked teen bullies paused in their violent corrections of their imagining me queer—three red pubes—relative to their massive black bush, and shrugged.tbgoodwillie
- NASA: Never A Straight Answerutopian
- Of course, I remember this, too. I remember the crowd watching before take off. And hoping it won’t explode when repeatedly seeing the footage.SimonFFM
- We watched it live on tv at school.instrmntl
- http://www.conflicts…instrmntl
- I was a fourth grade kid in New Hampshire at the time... Christa McAuliffe taught 2 towns over. She meant the world to us local kids... it was crushing. :(PonyBoy
- @tbgoodwillie ..um, what?garbage
- I had spent moths working on a cut away illustration of the shuttle. I finished it that day.lemmy_k
- The crew was still alive when it exploded. They died on impact when the capsule crashed on the ocean.NBQ00
- @lemmy still got it?garbage
- Q: Why does NASA drink Pepsi?
A: Because they can't get 7UP
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That was a primary school joke at the time :-(PhanLo - Watched it live with other classmates. All students and teachers were crying. Left a mark to this day.dibec
- They made my school perform a song and dance routine about this for an assembly of our parents and teachers. We kids didn’t give a shit but they were in tearsscarabin