Gen ❌, do you remember where you were when the Challenger exploded? | Chat & Bother Podcast

Gen ❌, do you remember exactly where you were when the Challenger exploded?
Were you sitting in class, watching that TV roll in on the cart, thinking you were about to see history, then all of a sudden everything changed? What do you remember from that moment? What did your teacher do? What was the class reaction?
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On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, a tragedy many Gen X kids watched live in their classrooms on TV.
All seven crew members were lost:

Francis “Dick” Scobee – Commander

Michael J. Smith – Pilot

Ronald McNair – Mission Specialist

Ellison Onizuka – Mission Specialist

Judith Resnik – Mission Specialist

Gregory Jarvis – Payload Specialist

Christa McAuliffe – Teacher-in-Space

Investigators later found that an O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster failed due to freezing temperatures, allowing hot gases to escape and destroy the shuttle.

Personal note: Don and I both became Aggies and regularly attended classes and events in the Ronald McNair Building on campus named in honor of Ronald McNair, a @N.C. A&T graduate and one of the #Challenger astronauts.
#nasa #genx #spaceshuttle

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