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- From: grimm@aio.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Keith A. Grimm)
- Subject: Re: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.183747.7474@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: UC Berkeley IC CAD Group
- References: <1993Jan28.010055.1691@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <5=r30mh@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37:47 GMT
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- In article <5=r30mh@rpi.edu>, gallas2@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Sean Michael Gallagher) writes:
- |> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
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- |> >Just a reminder- 7 years ago today- 11:38am EST....
- |> >So, where were you when the Challenger disaster took place?
- |> >It was during my sophomore of high school, and I was in English class
- |> >when they told us.
- |> >No tribute of any sort was allowed, nor could we openly talk about it
- |> >without some sort of negative reaction from administrators.
- |> >I remember it well, I even got in 'trouble' for this.
- |> >Pro-space exploration views were not welcome.
- |> >At least now things have improved.
- |> >Simon
- |
- I was watching the launch in the conference room here at JSC. I had worked for
- NASA for 6 months. 51-L was the first flight I worked with in one of the
- simulators here. I knew some of the crew. They were wonderful people.
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- Keith A. Grimm
- NASA-JSC
- Houston, TX 77058
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