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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
For those of you who were old enough to really understand Challenger (I have no memory of it), what were those initial moments like?
I saw a video on YouTube once of Christa McAuliffe's parents watching the shuttle, and as it exploded people clapped because they thought it was a normal part of the launch or rocket separation.
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Completely and utterly ****ed up.
I was walking between classes in college. We didn't have TV's in the hallways because it was the 80's. No cell phones, no internet, no nothing.
It started out as "whispers" but once we got back to the dorms to watch on our 13" B&W TV's, it was devastating.