Comments | tebing: 25 years ago

tebing

25 years ago

Jan 28, 2011 18:02

I was seven years old and in the second grade. I remember being very excited that morning because I knew we were going to get to watch a shuttle launch in school that day. I always loved watching the shuttle take off as a kid. They wheeled in a TV on one of those A/V carts for the entire class to watch it on. We waited anxiously as they counted ( Read more... )

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ripresa January 28 2011, 23:10:08 UTC

whoa.

tebing January 28 2011, 23:34:51 UTC

Yeah, no kidding. It's something I'll never forget.

ripresa January 28 2011, 23:43:09 UTC

I've never seen it so when you blogged about it I went online to watch it.

I was already in Texas when Columbia got destroyed over its skies.

Made me think we're like little ants, trying to crawl out of this planet. Space. We're so nowhere close to conquering it.

alsoname January 29 2011, 06:44:01 UTC

I remember being in the 2nd grade and for some reason, with no warning, the entire student body had to go out to a lawn where our principal was standing on a raised platform of some kind, explaining to us what we had just seen. I was so confused, because we hadn't been watching that in my class so I didn't have the context. It didn't occur to me until just a few years ago that probably my class was one of the few that wasn't watching it. I wonder why -- was there a TV shortage? Was my 2nd grade teacher anti-NASA?