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Originally posted by 84porsche
I just looked at the calendar and realized today 21 years ago, I was in the 1st grade and ....
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Yikes! You were 6 years old? I was 31 years old and working for Rockwell in the Shuttle Division in Downey, CA. It was mid morning and we were all talking when one of the guys who was on the phone shouted, "Oh no, no, no....what channel". We all stopped and looked at him and he said to us, "we've lot the bird". We all ran for a confernece room to watch TV and the place had a morgue-like feel for months thereafter.
One of my friends in another building got to see the real time telemetry from the Orbiter and the astronauts body recorders....what he told me was NOT pleasant. They knew what was happening to them in the moments it was going down. A number of them were alive all the way down, and it was a long scream down, poor bastards. God Rest Teir Souls.
As an aside, I met Judy Resnik a few months before the launch and she was a very, very nice person.