I remember being at home (at the time Chantilly, VA) and watching this on television. I was 9 or 10. This happened, and I didn't really understand it until my Mom started crying. She prayed at the side of the bed, and I suggested we go to McDonald's to help us feel better.

>> ^nach0s:

I remember being at home (at the time Chantilly, VA) and watching this on television. I was 9 or 10. This happened, and I didn't really understand it until my Mom started crying. She prayed at the side of the bed, and I suggested we go to McDonald's to help us feel better.


I remember it too. I was seven.

I was in 7th grade math class. One of my classmates who had smuggled a radio and headphones under his hoodie told me. I didn't believe him at first.

I would say something about memory but I don't want to get raged at again.

I'll just leave this here instead.

Ha. You mean Hicksville is a real place? All this time I thought that it was just a made up name used as an insult sort of like, Morontown, or Stupidland. So anyone described as coming from, Hicksville, must an unsophisticated country bumpkin from the back of nowhere.

Well, you live and learn

Recent news regarding this tragedy: http://www.inquisitr.com/191422/roger-boisjoly-scientists-who-fought-to-prevent-challenger-launch-dies-at-73/

Boisjoly was made the problem for pointing out the problem; classic case.

I remember watching coverage of this sad event on the news. I think I was six years old. I was just getting into dinosaurs and astronauts at the time.

My thirtieth birthday.

@ 0:33 "Will we see it separate"?
Nine seconds later, sadly, the answer: yes.

I was in the elementary main office calling to have my dad come to pick me up as I was sick at school. They happened to have the launch on the TV in the waiting room. While I was standing at the counter (I was probably in fourth or fifth grade) I saw it blow up on the television. I turned to the secretary and immediately told her that I thought the shuttle had just blown up; she of course didn't believe me at first. I knew quite a bit about the shuttle even at that age and knew something horrible had just happened, although I was still too young to fully grasp the full implications of that moment in history.

i was not alive for this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/us/ulric-neisser-who-reshaped-thinking-on-the-mind-dies-at-83.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

I was 9 and a total space nut. My room was covered in posters of the shuttle and challenger was always my favourite; no reason really, the name just sounded cool. I really wanted to be an astronaut (hadn't sunk in that Ireland didn't have a space program).

I was watching cartoons when they interrupted them with the news. I don't remember anything specific after that, just total shock.

This footage stopped being rare the moment it was uploaded onto intarnets. Pretty good quality stuff though.

I was 4 years old, me and my brother were watching it on his t.v. in his room. It is one of the most vivid memories that I have from my youth.

>> ^w1ndex:

I was 4 years old, me and my brother were watching it on his t.v. in his room. It is one of the most vivid memories that I have from my youth.


My only vivid memory from that year was being barefoot in a sandbox and remembering that my mother said to put my shoes back on since chernobyl had just exploded.