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ON THIS DAY - 1986: Seven Dead in Space Shuttle Disaster

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Chrissy
- 294 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk

The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger

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Ali Hirst (347)

Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:32 pm
Ironic that the dates between the Apollo and Challenger disasters are only apart by a day except for the years of course. I remember I was in school assembly with my daughter when the news came through on that...it was her first day at high school and so very sad.

Gail Costic (409)

Monday January 28, 2008, 11:06 am
My daughter was 10 and watching this with her class at school. I was called to come and get her because she was so upset and they could not calm her.
Noted with a moment of respectful silence.

Jerilyn M. (376)

Monday January 28, 2008, 11:16 am
I remember it like it happened this morning.
My kids had just started school.

THIS QUEER IS PISSED OFF (49)

Monday January 28, 2008, 12:47 pm
i was 15 and we watched it happen in class ........so very very sad ..........

Chrissy N. (174)

Monday January 28, 2008, 3:11 pm
On the morning (in Australia) that this happened, my eldest daughter (9 at the time) awoke crying, telling me that "the rocket had blown up". I had no idea what she was talking about as having only just awoken myself, there was no radio or TV on. Took ages to calm her down, but allowed her to "tell me about it". She described the fact that she had seen people watching a rocket go into space and that when it was high in the sky, it looked like a firework and she knew that everyone in the rocket was dead.

Imagine how I felt, when I later turned on the radio ... swiftly followed by the TV ... and heard about this! I am speaking to her tonight and am going to ask her if she remembers ...

Ali Hirst (347)

Monday January 28, 2008, 3:19 pm
Chrissy let me know if your daughter remembers....mine was born on the day of the whisky a go go bombing here in Brisbane, at exactly the same time as the bomb went off I went into labour...and one of our friends lost a son in that bombing.... and she started high school on the Columbia disaster day....very odd statistics

Joy Bergstrom (286)

Monday January 28, 2008, 6:04 pm
I remember this so very well. At first the people on the ground had not even relised what had happen, for I was watching it, they had said there parents thought it was fire works at first, I knew what it was, my heart sank for I knew so many lives were taken, There is always that 1% as it happen not long after that one over Texas when they were comming back. thank you Chrissy N. noted