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Everything Else => Off Topic => Topic started by: Canada Darrell™ on January 28, 2011, 08:55:57 PM
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I feel older every time something like this comes up. I was in my truck at the time working as a courier when I heard the news.
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Hehe Darrell, I remember sitting up all night watching the 1st moon landing, bloody old git ain't I. :DD
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I remember it too, Darrell. When a friend told me what happened, I thought it was a bad joke.
Don't feel bad, Ian. I remember when they brought a TV into my 1st grade class so that we could watch Alan Shepard become the 1st American in space, aboard Freedom 7.
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I even remember Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile in 1954. :'(
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Can't believe that was 25 years ago. I remember watching it on TV, I would have been 10 at the time.
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It really was terrible, they were warned not to launch as well, people should have been jailed for that.
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Hehe Darrell, I remember sitting up all night watching the 1st moon landing, bloody old git ain't I. :DD
If you are then I'm getting there! I remember the first moon landing even though I was only 6 years old. I wanted to be an astronaut after that!
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Blinking heck Darrell, I was just coming up to 21 then.
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I was working, thought it was a joke at first. The seldom discussed side effect was that they completely abandoned the Teacher in Space project. What a wasted opportunity, and in a way makes Christa McAuliffe's sacrifice in vain. :DntKnw:
Lonny
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Although it was a terrible tragedy it highlighted just how dangerous launches into space are, you literally ride a massive controlled explosion when reaching for the stars. I think that the American space programe never suffered the same level of failures that the Soviets experienced in their rocket development and a bit of complacency set in.
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I remember seeing it live on tv.... right before school... such a shocking thing to see.
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Hehe Darrell, I remember sitting up all night watching the 1st moon landing, bloody old git ain't I. :DD
If you are then I'm getting there! I remember the first moon landing even though I was only 6 years old. I wanted to be an astronaut after that!
Me too - Grade one, they brought one of those black & white TV's in (they were built onto a 5ft high trolley). I don't think I was all that awestruck at the time, but I never forgot it.
I didn't see Challenger live, but remember watching it late at night while on a night shift at a hotel I was working at in Jasper.