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- From: irwin@juliet.caltech.edu (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:34 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- I too, remember quite clearly where I was and what I was doing on 28 Jan 86.
- It was my senior year at MIT and I had just finished a three week program at
- Lowell Observatory and was visiting my parents in South Florida. I got up that
- morning watching the TV for news on the shuttle launch. When I heard about the
- delays and the pad condition, I figured that there was no way they would launch
- that day, so I decided to pop a video of "Close Encounters" into the VCR. When
- the movie finished, the TV came back onto CNN, where I saw a graphic of the
- Shuttle disaster. I ended up spending the rest of the day in a state of shock.
-
- To this day, I still can not watch "Close Encounters" b/c of this association.
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- Irwin Horowitz |
- Astronomy Department |"Whoever heard of a female astronomer?"
- California Institute of Technology |--Charlene Sinclair, "Dinosaurs"
- irwin@iago.caltech.edu |
- ih@deimos.caltech.edu |
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