Very good album. I can remember where I was and what I was doing this very tragic day. My wife and I sat by the TV the entire day listening to Tom Brokaw just waiting and hoping to hear if the crew of seven survived the explosion. Looking through your album brought back a lot of sad memories. Thanks for sharing it. Thumbs Up!

said keysersoze59 2 months 20 days ago

postkrafty, Being the resident "space cadet" in my freshman class in high school (I was 15 when Challenger blew up), I heard "the shuttle just blew up" almost every time a mission went up, so I was fairly used to it, and didn't give it a second thought that day. Then, I got home and saw on TV that, this one time, it was true. Like you, I just prayed that it was all a dream, or something to that effect, but it was true. I wound up writing an article on it for my high school yearbook, titled, appropriately, "Tragedy in the Sky."

said knightryder 7 months 28 days ago

This was such a tragedy. I remember, I kept staring at my TV and hoping they were going to say it was a joke. But, of course it was not. I guess, it was something, no one ever dreamed would happen. Reality hurts.

said postkrafty 8 months 1 days ago

What really makes me (and I assume you as well) angry about the Challenger accident is that the loss of the crew could have been prevented. When the crew compartment broke away, largely intact, if they'd only had some sort of parachute system to soften the landing, at least some of the crew would have survived - it wasn't the explosion that killed them, it was the impact after a 10-mile drop into the Atlantic Ocean! (But I'm sure you already knew that). Robert

said knightryder 2007.12.11 at 10:48:21 PST