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- From: johnh@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Mr. John E. Holeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 06:44:46 GMT
- Organization: Oregon State University
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- I was in my seventh-grade english class, when my teacher walked in and, as
- calmly as he could, said that the space shuttle had blown up. A science class
- down the hall had been watching it. The teacher of that class came into the
- room, called ours out who returned with the news. We all thought that it was
- some tasteless joke. I did especially; being a major fan of the space program
- for as long as I can remember...It wasn't until much much later that I got to
- see the footage(on the evening news, over and over and over again), that I
- lost my doubts as to whether or not it had actually happened. I am glad to
- see that the accident did not put any impossible road-blocks in the space
- program, and that it kind of put the politicians in charge of verifying
- launches back in their place. Hopefully, there is still a good future in the
- space program and NASA...
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