Remembering The Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy

lessee... 58 minus 26... I guess I was 32 - wow, my dad was still alive! I do remember that, I was at work when someone said it had happened and we found a TV and watched it... I can't watch it now, its just too heartbreaking...

I was only four, so I don't remember it. I've asked my parents about their memories about it.

i do remember that too. this, although not as big as 9/11 is like it because you remember where you were and what you were doing at that point in time.

I could never forget this day. I was watching it with a friend. I left the room to go check my pregnancy test and exclaimed, "Oh sht!!" at precisely the same time that my friend did in the next room. I live in NH so Christa McAuliffe is a hero here. Heartbreaking story.

I still to this day cannot believe this even happened. I remember the day clearly too and how horrible it was to hear about. Something i never even thought could possibly happen. I am sure all of the Challenger passagers were excited and ready to meet the challenge of this adventure. To have it end this way was just awful.

hi there mandalee, Hope you are great today in doing your mylotting, well it is really great but i wouldnt be born till march that year so don't know much about it but i am going to watch that for i think it is one of the greatest endeavors of man.

I just remember how excited Christa was. Every time you saw her she had a smile on her face. And later on, finding out how senseless it was. They should have waited. Those people would still be alive.

I didn't realize the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tradegy is tomorrow! Wow! It has been 26 years! I was still living at home when this happen. I was not feeling well and was laying on the livingroom couch watching tv when I saw what happened. I remember it was shocking and like it was unreal in someways. The Challenger had a teacher on board,I remember,too. Now the Space Shuttle missions are over and I wonder if we will have more travels to space in the future.

I remember that day well. As it has been publicized for so long, including Christa and the children she taught. It was so shocking to see the Space Shuttle Challenger explode and know that all those on board would not survive. I felt so bad for all the families that lost their wives, husbands, son, daughter, mother, sister, father, brother, etc. It was such a waste of good and talented individuals.

I too remember that day like it was yesterday. I was alot older then you I was at work. Someone had a TV on in a conference room and when we saw what happened we all started crying and were quite upset. Knowing that the first teacher going up into space was gone just like that was horrible not to mention all the astronants. I have many days in my life that I will never forget beginning with JFK's assassination to being a survior of 9/11 at the WTC.

I remember it very well. My youngest daughter was two at the time. I remember she was wanting something and I was on my way to the kitchen and then I heard the news come on the TV. I was so stunned and shocked that I sat back down and after a few moments my daughter started crying and that's what brought me back to the present.

i to remember that day. i watched it live and remember the numbness of watching it transpire on telly. true heroes.

I don't remember where I was when that occurred but I do remember how sad I felt. In 1986, I was 15 so the images that came across my TV screen are still vivid to me to this day. I have a good recollection of memories.

It is so sad but sometimes lives need to be sacrifice for science. I hope this event will never be duplicated again as I really feel bad about those people who continuously enrich our science yet once they are gone, people tend to forget the greatness they have done.

I remember it so well too...I was on my way to visit my sister when I heard the news. I walked in her front door and they hadn't heard a thing about it.....so we turned on the tv and spend the rest of the visit watching the news! So sad!

We were watching it in our class that day too. I was a little older than you though..more like the 7th grade I think. I remember it being a moment of excitement and then suddenly everyone's hearts hit the floor at the same time. Teachers were leaving the rooms and meeting in the halls where they were hugging and crying. It was a sad day.

This day will forever stick in my mind. My fourth grade classmates were going to watch the space shuttle take off. I was at Akron Children's Hospital having a test done on my kidneys. It was a routine CT scan but it turned out to be far from routine. As soon as the contrast dye came in contact with my skin, I panicked. I couldn't breathe. In the background I heard a voice over the PA system saying code blue in CT, code blue in CT. I went into respiratory arrest and traveled down a colorful lit tunnel then a hand pushed me back. The doctors had given me Benadryl and prednisone through the iv to reverse the allergic reaction. I was admitted to the hospital for that day but got to go home the next day and everyone was talking about the space shuttle explosion.