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Sam T-Ga 
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016 at 3:52pm |
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In June 1983 I was service rep in Atlanta region and working for week on the Gleaner Caravan in Texas. One morning in Burkburnett, Tx while working on N7 we heard a big plane coming over us, it was like we were at the end of the Atlanta Airport runway. We looked out from under the N7 to see a 747 with the space shuttle on it's back. In a few minutes later it came back over with the wheels down for landing. It landed at Wichita Falls, Tx. I later found out that it was the Challenger. Tomorrow, January 28 is the 30yr anniversary of it's breakup on takeoff.
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Ky.Allis
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016 at 4:40pm |
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WOW!!!! Great story That day is one I'll never forget. Along with the JFK assasination and 911 all of which occured in my lifetime.
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DougG
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016 at 7:14pm |
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Yes that is something,,,, I remember that so well, dam time is flying
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Unit3
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016 at 10:39pm |
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I remember it as well. I sat there disbelieving what I was watching.
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016 at 10:46pm |
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I remember it as well my wife was within a couple weeks of having our first child. We were up at her folks house when it happened. My mom and dad were in Florida , near Kissimmee, and they watched it happen.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 1:13am |
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I remember it as well. For some reason I didn't go to school that day and I sat in the living room and watched the replay over and over of the shuttle blowing up and footage of the crew going to the launch deck waiving to bystanders.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 7:19am |
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I was in woods shop class my junior year of high school when Mr. Nute told us.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 10:26am |
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Just finished a grade 11 exam when JFK was shot, exhibiting at Toronto Farm show when the Challenger went down, pulling kidney beans on 911. A few years earlier was on top of the World trade center. Time does fly.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 8:41pm |
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The EPA made them change formula on O-rings."Improved formula" failed and seven Americans died.Nobody ever talks about that. CAFE standards,etc.enviromentalism is great ain't it. Yeh I'm not a government fan.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 11:11pm |
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Heard today was the 30th anniversary for the Challenger on the radio this morning. I instantly flashed back to when this happen...I was in forth grade and our teacher came in and told us what happen...he drew a number "7" on the chalkboard and told us all seven onboard had died...then he circled the number seven and told us the seventh member of the crew was a teacher. The class across the hall got to watch the launch live on TV during class.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 at 11:14pm |
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SteveM, where did you hear/read that?
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