Unfortunate misspeak

[ms_interpret]

I was watching the Discovery launch this morning, and the CBC announcer said that "By all accounts, this looks like a successful launch of the Challenger space shuttle... er... rather, that is, the Discovery" You can tell where his mind was! So was mine, I gotta say. I remember so clearly that morning. I was home sick from school watching soap

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[katster]

That was Challenger, the one that blew up on launch. Columbia's the one that disingrated on re-entry a few years back. They're both space shuttles, and both happened about the same time, so it's easy to conflate the two

[ms_interpret]

You're right. My mistake. He did say Challenger. I'm just overtired and typed Columbia. I'll fix that right up. :)

[pauamma]

So far, all American deaths in the space progam have occured over about a week in late January and early February.
I was going to say not true, but I checked, and you're right.

[pauamma]

Anyway, it took off, then exploded, and I thought that it was supposed to happen like that, that something was going to keep going from it.
I pretty much had the same reaction: Here goes booster sep... wait, wasn't there supposed to be something between the boosters?