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Title: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Jimbob on 28 January 2011, 20:17:49
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12306318

remember going cold then as I watched it, and gone cold again now seeing the pics again!
Was only 10, must be one of my earliest vivid news memories
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 28 January 2011, 20:22:04
I remember that very well, I watched in stunned silence as it became obvious to me that I had just witnessed the deaths of those on board the craft.
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: PhilRich on 28 January 2011, 20:24:44
Crikey, was it that long ago? It doesn't seem anything like it! :o
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: hercules on 28 January 2011, 20:25:29
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I remember that very well, I watched in stunned silence as it became obvious to me that I had just witnessed the deaths of of those on board the craft.
my thoughts too,i was 12 and to see a real life tragedy like that was horrific and you knew that seven brave souls had just gone
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Entwood on 28 January 2011, 20:26:22
Certainly difficult to think it was really 25 years ago .. seems much more recent.

It made a great many people realise space exploration is inherently dangerous .. they had become complacent.
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Andy B on 28 January 2011, 20:27:03
in the days before youtube etc, it was months after the event that I saw video footage of this cos I'd just sailed from Pompey for 5 months.
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 28 January 2011, 20:27:26
I was shocked when I saw it in news..  became million pieces in a second.. still I remember it like yesterday..   And I feel really sorry as some of the crew were civils first time going in space.. :(



Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: hoofing it on 28 January 2011, 20:50:01
Then the sick jokes came out Need.Another.Seven.Astronauts :-X
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: hercules on 28 January 2011, 20:57:06
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Then the sick jokes came out Need.Another.Seven.Astronauts :-X
bloody ell aye i remember that,it doesnt take long after any disaster for the jokes to start rolling
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 28 January 2011, 21:24:09
Yeh, I remember the jokes

Favourite Drink - 7uP
NASA - Need Another Seven Astronauts
Last thing they said - What does this button do
What do tampon users and Christa McAuliffe have in common - They both should have stayed on the pad.

25 years ago though, amazing how time passes.

Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Amigo on 28 January 2011, 21:28:10
I remember as well. If i'm right it was televised & the families would've been watching at home.
    It was shocking for all of us but to Mum & the kids????
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Lazydocker on 29 January 2011, 00:07:10
Thanks Jimbob... I feel old now as I remember it like yesterday ::)
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Proz on 29 January 2011, 00:24:54
Yeah i remember watching it .... god im old  :-/
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: henryd on 29 January 2011, 00:29:15
I remember watching that, makes my blood run cold watching it even now
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 29 January 2011, 09:36:51
Yes, I was watching and like so many it was the stunned silence I remember so well, as certainly I couldn't grasp, or didn't want to believe,  for a minute or so what I had witnessed :'( :'( :'( :'(  We were in shock! :o :o
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: TheBoy on 29 January 2011, 09:50:48
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Yeh, I remember the jokes

Favourite Drink - 7uP
NASA - Need Another Seven Astronauts
Last thing they said - What does this button do
What do tampon users and Christa McAuliffe have in common - They both should have stayed on the pad.

25 years ago though, amazing how time passes.

You forgot one...


"Who let her drive..."


//TB braces for the MCP comments from the ladies (and ladyboys)...  :P
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: M on 29 January 2011, 13:41:51
I think Challenger was the first "I remember what I was doing that day" moment of my life, the others being 9/11 attacks and Princess Diana's death

The shuttle tragedy really hit home with me, I was 15 at the time and heavily into aviation and in particular the shuttle cos each launch back then was quite an event.

I remember going out and buying all the papers in the morning to get as much information as I could about what happened

Terrible waste of life, and if reports are to be believed some of the astronauts were attempting to activate their personal safety equipment as the orbiter fell to earth.

 :(
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: TheBoy on 29 January 2011, 14:27:33
Its a dangerous activity. They knew the risks.

I'd say the same for motorsport, by the gayboys at F1 don't qualify. Numby Pandies
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: hercules on 29 January 2011, 15:33:59
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Its a dangerous activity. They knew the risks.

I'd say the same for motorsport, by the gayboys at F1 don't qualify. Numby Pandies
lol biggest risk they take is pulling the gloves on without breaking a nail ;D
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 29 January 2011, 15:40:36
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Its a dangerous activity. They knew the risks.
I'd say the same for motorsport, by the gayboys at F1 don't qualify. Numby Pandies

they sit on a bullet chair containing hundreds of tons of hdyrogen and oxygen .. nothing ever is that much dangerous..

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/12800

but from engineering point of view , its unacceptable that all this tragedy is caused by a bad quality o-ring.. :(
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: Banjax on 29 January 2011, 15:45:27
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Its a dangerous activity. They knew the risks.

I'd say the same for motorsport, by the gayboys at F1 don't qualify. Numby Pandies


I think you'd bottle driving an F1 car flat out  ;D

I know I would  ;)
Title: Re: I can't beleive this was 25 years ago
Post by: TheBoy on 29 January 2011, 16:52:01
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Its a dangerous activity. They knew the risks.

I'd say the same for motorsport, by the gayboys at F1 don't qualify. Numby Pandies


I think you'd bottle driving an F1 car flat out  ;D

I know I would  ;)
My brother, the lucky, jammy bugger has driven one. Surprised he wedged his fat gut in, along with all his chins.  No, no bitterness there ;D ;D

One of his suppliers flew him to Catalunya, where he was trained to drive single seaters, before strapping him in a real F1 :o. Git. Utter git. I would happily have gone in his place ::)