I will never forget sitting in my 6th grade History class, watching this disaster unfold live on TV. I can’t believe it’s been a quarter of a decade, because I remember that day very clearly.
I grew up in Florida, not close to Cape Canaveral, but we could still see the launches via the naked eye.
I was in school this day and we didn’t have the launch on TV — we went to the window to watch it. When it exploded we didn’t immediately understand what happened. The shuttle was not that large in our vision. One kid said, “it exploded,” but he was the class clown so we ignored him. It was only after the smoke plumes really began flowing downward we understood he was right.
I’m reblogging this photo because I like to remember that seven people perished that day. NPR’s brief article this morning only mentioned the name of Christa McCauliffe, but Ellison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judith Resnik also perished in service to their country.
Alright…
I’m showing my age here BUT!
Yea, I wasn’t born yet.
(Still, I remember that one space shuttle upon landing blowing up over Arizona. Or am I completely making this up?)
(Source: The Atlantic, via missworded)
