1. oldtobegin: abloodymess: littleorphanammo: hman: theatlantic: Remembering the Challenger Disaster, 25 Years Later I still remember the TV cart being wheeled into my classroom.   The cart! Into the classroom!  Me too!  My teacher was crying :( I stayed home sick from school and was watching the game show “Scrabble” when they interrupted the broadcast to report on the explosion. I distinctly remember eating carrots and triscuits, both of these foods remind me of this event. i was 3 when this happened so i don’t have super clear memories. but i remember the aftereffects of it. i wanted to be an astronaut so badly when i was a kid and weirdly i think this event was part of what made me want that. not that i wanted to blow up; but that i wanted to prove it didn’t have to be so sad. I remember the Punky Brewster episode.

    oldtobegin:

    abloodymess:

    littleorphanammo:

    hman:

    theatlantic:

    Remembering the Challenger Disaster, 25 Years Later

    I still remember the TV cart being wheeled into my classroom.  

    The cart! Into the classroom!  Me too!  My teacher was crying :(

    I stayed home sick from school and was watching the game show “Scrabble” when they interrupted the broadcast to report on the explosion. I distinctly remember eating carrots and triscuits, both of these foods remind me of this event.

    i was 3 when this happened so i don’t have super clear memories. but i remember the aftereffects of it. i wanted to be an astronaut so badly when i was a kid and weirdly i think this event was part of what made me want that. not that i wanted to blow up; but that i wanted to prove it didn’t have to be so sad.

    I remember the Punky Brewster episode.

    (Source: The Atlantic)

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    I remember the Punky Brewster episode.
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    O! i stayed home sick from school that day too! i was eating chicken noodle-o’s. it reminds me too.
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    Alright… I’m showing my age here BUT! Yea, I wasn’t born yet. (Still, I remember that one space shuttle upon landing...
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    Christa McAuliffe Elementary School pride, whoa-oh-oh!
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    I honestly don’t remember where I was, just that I was shocked by the wrongness of it.
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    Fun fact: My namesake is Christa McAuliff
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    my mama was in the hospital with me still when this happened and she told me she remembered watching it on the hospital...
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    I can’t believe this was 25 years ago. Just last week, T and I were talking about how vividly we remember it.