The Challenger shuttle exploded 30 years ago today

[Jope]

How is the Challenger disaster relevant on an Amiga forum?

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[Amiga1992]

I had no idea of that, love these little facts!
[also: I am THAT old? ]

[Predseda]

I remember it well. I was a kid living in a socialistic block. If something failed in capitalistic Western Europe or in the USA, our communists newspapers used to make jokes out of it. But in this case they surprisingly informed about the disaster with condolences and presented it as a sad tragic news.

[PortuguesePilot]

I also remember it well. I was 8 years old, quite an impressionable age. I was living in western Europe at the time (well... I'm still living in western Europe) and this disaster ended up being associated with a music that topped many music charts around Europe at the time: Jean-Michel Jarre's [ Show youtube player ]. Still to this day, whenever I read something about the Challenger disaster, this music pops into my head and whenever I hear the music, I remember the Challenger.

[DisposableHero]

I was only 4 at the time, so don't recall it, but I've seen documentaries and read articles. Fascinating and tragic story. The news divide either side of the Iron Curtain is interesting - it seems those in the west were often better informed about Soviet disasters than ordinary Soviets - their information agency 'pravda' may have been named for the Russian word for 'truth', but they actually covered-up and sugar-coated most of the bad bits. Incidentally, the singer-songwriter Frank Turner has a song called Silent Key on his last album about Christa McAuliffe, the teacher in space who perished that day.

[kneehighspy]

i remember that day very well. i was 17 and a senior in high school, we were out on a snow day and i never missed a shuttle launch. i was watching it on the tv beside my desk with my apple IIe and my c-64, i was playing epyx winter games on the apple and then the world changed when the shuttle exploded.

i was an avid space shuttle junkie, had models, all sorts of manuals, tons of astronaut group photos from every shuttle launch till that day, even had an estes model rocket of the shuttle that after it launched, the boosters came down on a chute and the shuttle 'kinda' glided down.

after i recieved a copy of the shuttle accident investigation book, i kinda lost interest in the shuttle. well the following year i did get my first Amiga 1000, so that kinda brightens things back up

it was a sad time, r.i.p god bless those astronauts.

[dannyp1]

I was on my way into work and was a little early so I stopped at the used VHS store to look around and they had a newspaper rack and it was the headline with a picture on the front page. It took my breath away.

[stevsurv]

Originally Posted by Akira

I had no idea of that, love these little facts!
[also: I am THAT old? ]

Yes there is a few of us old farts here!