25 Years Ago Today We Lost The Space Shuttle Challenger.....

....It seems like it was just yesterday that we lost our wonderful, brave crew in a awful tragedy that never should have happened. I still get a lump in my throat and misty eyed today when I think of the Challenger 7 and the Columbia 7 as well. Also never far from my mind are Grissom, White and Chaffee of Apollo 1 who perished in that awful pad fire. Here is an article about the Challenger Accident:

http://www.space.com/10708-shuttle-c...a-lessons.html


Rest In Peace my brave heroes. It is up to us to honor you and carry on the mission you believed so much in that you gave you lives for it.

Amen! Rest In Peace.

We'll add an Amen to that also. We seem to lose the bravest and the best.

REE

My daughter was born at 11:40 AM that day....2 minutes after the disaster. My mom still says she replaced one of the astronauts. RIP crew of Challenger.

Hi,

I remember going into the Common Room of 2nd Lennard (my first year University residence; I was on the 2nd floor) and watching it on TV. We were all pretty shook up over it.

- Jeff

I remember it was a few days before my 40th birthday. I was conducting an inspection in the north MS Delta town of Clarksdale, bitter cold for the south that day. We were discussing some issue with the plant engineer and a lady came in and told up something had happen to the shuttle. I couldn't believe the shuttle was lost, it was a stark reminder of how dangerous space exploration really is and the level of bravery it takes to strap in on the front end of one of the world's most powerful rockets. Most of us do not appreciate how important it was for the US to win the space race. Otherwise and we would have weapons in space aimed down at us now.

Like most I remember the Challenger disaster very well.
I was working at Lockheed in Sunnyvale Ca. at the Shuttles thermal tile facility, Building 174...

Today I finished the flag pole tip top, dedicated to those seven brave astronauts, to reflect and remember...

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