Challenger Disaster
On the morning of January 28, 1986, the United State Space Shuttle Challenger was scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in central Florida.
At 11:38 a.m. EST the ship lifted from its launchpad with seven American astronauts, and 73 seconds later, Challenger was no more.
Below are the memories of REDdimension Wiki Circle members relating where they were when the shuttle exploded in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean just off Florida's east coast and how the national tragedy impacted their lives.
Jon Reddick
Jon was sixteen years old and attending Haines City High School, just ninety miles from Kennedy Space Center. It wasn't uncommon to watch the conn trail of a morning or afternoon launch in the sky to the northwest during school hours.
"I had watched so many shuttle launches in the distance by the time of the Challenger explosion, the launches had become commonplace. I was at school and on my lunch break, killing time hanging out with my friends in the band hall.
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