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Beartracks

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2. Got out of a college class to see the disaster replaying on the lobby TV.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:20 PM

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The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff [View all] turbinetree 23 hrs ago OP

Waiting tables on the lunch shift musette_sf 22 hrs ago #1

I also have PTSD from that event.............because I had done some work on the Space Shuttle at the Palmdale turbinetree 22 hrs ago #9

Got out of a college class to see the disaster replaying on the lobby TV. Beartracks 22 hrs ago #2

I was at an IBM managers' class in Armonk, New York. sinkingfeeling 22 hrs ago #3

If it happened today trump would blame DEI Danmel 22 hrs ago #4

I was in the student union feeling absolutely miserable sarisataka 22 hrs ago #5

I was having lunch with a friend Wednesdays 22 hrs ago #6

In an airplane a short time after it left Atlanta. multigraincracker 22 hrs ago #7

I was at work. We all watched in horror BlueWaveNeverEnd 22 hrs ago #8

I was in 4th grade in the media center (library) wondering what several teachers were... PunkinPi 22 hrs ago #10

Everyone on this planet were affected by that event in some shape or form............ turbinetree 22 hrs ago #11

I saw it live on TV from my college dorm. Intractable 22 hrs ago #12

Thankyou ....The original cast of Star Trek went to Palmdale, California, on September 17, 1976 Space Shuttle Enterprise turbinetree 22 hrs ago #13

I was teaching a combined first/second grade in a little rural school. I had a small TV in my room and we were all KitFox 22 hrs ago #14

I had just gotten out of class in law school. I went into the law review office and watched TV rsdsharp 22 hrs ago #15

I remember it well. Now I fear we might have a repeat. There is a mission going up in February - going Vinca 21 hrs ago #16

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