This Day 22 Years ago was the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

Link on reddit pointed to an article on the Space Shuttle Challenger and noted it was 22 years ago today that it exploded on takeoff. I remember this vividly too, just like everytime I hear the line in the song Nineteen Somethin' that goes:

Space Shuttle fell out of the sky
And the whole world cried...

I remember looking into my elementary school window (I was in grade 5 or 6) and seeing my teacher either watching TV or crying, or both, and wondering what the heck was going on. I don't remember if I found out what had happened in school or when I got home, but the image of the smoke from the explosion stuck with me and still makes me shiver, knowing what that smoke trail meant for the crew and the lone civilian teacher on board.

Posted by Arcterex at January 28, 2008 01:08 PM