Please take a moment

getreal · Jan 29, 2015

Please take a moment today to honor the memory of the 7 courageous crew members that lost their lives in the Challenger disaster 29 years ago.

Stainless · Jan 29, 2015

This is one of those events I remember exactly where and what I was doing when the announcement came through. RIP Challenger Crew. [emoji17]

Warlock1 · Jan 29, 2015

Same here, never forget that day.

Old Texan · Jan 29, 2015

I was making a sales call at Dow Chemical and the guys had the breaking news up on the lunchroom TV.....Never forget the views of the smoke in the sky. Always think of that day when passing the memorial site on Nasa 1 near the Johnson Space Center. Continued RIP to the Crew.

FreeBird236 · Jan 29, 2015

I was at work, we were all gathered around the tv. Sad day...

Skinny Tire AH · Jan 29, 2015

Yep, one of the 9-11 moments. Like Old Texan, I was at a customers place. I walked into this office and everyone was glued to a TV monitor.

The Gentleman I share a boat with in Brazil is a retired school teacher. He was just telling me on this last fishing trip that he was a finalist in California to be the teacher that went up.

GRADS · Jan 29, 2015

I took a moment YESTERDAY on the anniversary. :rolleyes

TexasJet · Jan 29, 2015

That was one hell of an "unscheduled event".

wsuwrhr · Jan 29, 2015

Like it was yesterday, sir.

Godspeed.

Skinny Tire AH · Jan 29, 2015

GRADS said:
I took a moment YESTERDAY on the anniversary. :rolleyes

...Open ones mouth and remove all doubt...

Tommy Gun Images · Jan 29, 2015

I was in 4th grade. My 5th grade teacher was a finalist. I can still see it clear as day.

I can remember as a kid my dad would wake me up so we could watch the launches on TV. It was always cool to watch until that day

Ziggy · Jan 29, 2015

At work when the soon to be exwife called and told us.
The disbelief was along the same lines as 911. Everyones jaw was on the floor.

ullefan · Jan 29, 2015

One of my best friends who now lives in Havasu was to be a Mission Specialist on this flight,but something happened and he watched from the ground as all of us.

He knew every member of the crew like family.The crew had water in their lungs and no doubt were alive for the whole horrifying event. I find it very sad and gross for family.

Cole Trickle · Jan 29, 2015

We were watching live in our elementary school classroom

Outdrive1 · Jan 29, 2015

Cole Trickle said:
We were watching live in our elementary school classroom

X2

rivermobster · Jan 29, 2015

Man. I remember the event, but I don't remember what I was doing. Hats off...

Deja_Vu · Jan 29, 2015

I was working on APUs for Hamilton Sundstrand when my buddies wife called with the news.

Everyone stopped working and that moment of silence was deafening.

I still have the front page of the newspaper from that day.

thmterry · Jan 29, 2015

I lived on the west coast of Florida at the time and saw a bunch of space shuttles launch and remember watching the Challenger go up and thinking to myself that none of the other shuttles did that crazy maneuver after take off. I didn't realize for a couple minutes what had actually happened. RIP

beerrun · Jan 30, 2015

I was at USCG airstation Astoria or picking up a van for a special training that was going to take place at cape D and it was on the TV when I walked into the hanger

sgtskidmark · Jan 30, 2015

Outdrive1 said:
X2

X3

CornWater · Jan 30, 2015

sgtskidmark said:
X3

X4. 4th grade, never watched anything live in school at that time. You could hear a pin drop...

Deja_Vu · Jan 28, 2016

30 years ago today... RIP to the Challenger crew

Christa McAuliffe's Students are now teaching themselves. :thumbsup

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/challenger-disaster-mcauliffes-students-teach-36545068

Thirty years after the Concord High School class of '86 watched social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts perish when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart on live TV, a number of them have gone into teaching ? and some wonder if, indirectly, the tragedy affected them enough that they wanted to make a difference, as she did.

One of them, Tammy Hickey, didn't like social studies at all, but she enjoyed McAuliffe's law class.

McAuliffe took Hickey and fellow students to courtrooms and conducted mock trials in class. Hickey remembers how personable she was, and how she shared her enthusiasm and experiences when she was in the running to be the first teacher in space. Hickey, now a junior high physical education teacher in Bradenton, Florida, just knew McAuliffe would be picked from more than 11,000 applicants.

"As a teacher now, I know that I want to show respect and show my students that I care," Hickey says. "I can say to emulate how she was, would be a service to these kids for sure."

Hickey joins a number of members of the class of '86 in Concord who became teachers and guidance counselors in the 30 years since they and other students of all ages nationwide watched with disbelief and horror as the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, becoming a generational touchstone.

"I try to be very mindful," says Joanne Walton, who teaches grades four through six in Fairfax, Virginia. She says she sometimes goes through a "What would Christa do?" mantra in her teaching.

"She knew that teaching was way more than just imparting information and that it was really important to know students," Walton says.

Holly Merrow, a math teacher for students in fifth through eighth grades in Camden, Maine, had McAuliffe for American Women in History, a class that McAuliffe created and is still taught at Concord High. She worries people will forget her and her motto: "I touch the future. I teach."

"I hear people use it, and I wonder if they know that it came from her," she says.

Members of the class of '86 have petitioned the Obama administration to have a national holiday named for McAuliffe and the Challenger crew, "to honor Christa and the other astronauts for their ultimate sacrifice." The hope was to reach 100,000 signatures by Friday, but it has fewer than 200 so far.

Concord, a city of about 42,000, built and named a planetarium for McAuliffe, 37 when she died, then later changed it to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, recognizing native son Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Just a few years ago, it named an elementary school for her.

The city has been low-key on marking Challenger anniversaries as her family stayed in Concord and her young children, Scott and Caroline, grew up. Today, both are educators with children of their own. Caroline declined to be interviewed, and Scott did not respond to an email.

"The passage of 30 years since the Challenger accident is not of great personal significance to our family," their father and Christa's widower, Steven McAuliffe, said in a statement. "For us, Challenger will always be an event that occurred just recently. Our thoughts and memories of Christa will always be fresh and comforting."

McAuliffe, a federal judge, added, "We are happy to know that Christa's goals have been largely accomplished in that she has inspired generations of classroom teachers and students, and has focused public attention on the critical importance of teachers to our nation's well-being."

Also Thursday, students at Concord High will hold a moment of silence, writing about their dreams as part of a "Reach for the Stars" assignment and listening to discussions about McAuliffe. They are gathering old yearbook photos and combing through the planetarium archives to put together a permanent display.

Scott Reynolds, a 1987 alumnus who teaches science at the elite St. Paul's School in Concord, conducts a field trip to a local cemetery with his students for one course. The students, from all over the world, get demographic data from the gravesites and make a spreadsheet linking people's deaths to wars and diseases.

When they're done, they drive by Christa McAuliffe's gravestone, and he asks if they know who she was.

"There's always one kid who knows," he says. "I can't say I'm depressed. It's 30 years. It's completely understandable that they don't remember this. I'm more enlightened by the fact that there's always somebody who knows who she was."

Bigbore500r · Jan 28, 2016

Cole Trickle said:
We were watching live in our elementary school classroom

I think I was in kindergarden....I remember seeing it on TV, and the teacher running up and shutting the TV off in a hurry, crying

RIP

rivermobster · Jan 28, 2016

Deja_Vu said:
30 years ago today... RIP to the Challenger crew

Christa McAuliffe's Students are now teaching themselves. :thumbsup

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/challenger-disaster-mcauliffes-students-teach-36545068

Thirty years after the Concord High School class of '86 watched social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts perish when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart on live TV, a number of them have gone into teaching ? and some wonder if, indirectly, the tragedy affected them enough that they wanted to make a difference, as she did.

One of them, Tammy Hickey, didn't like social studies at all, but she enjoyed McAuliffe's law class.

McAuliffe took Hickey and fellow students to courtrooms and conducted mock trials in class. Hickey remembers how personable she was, and how she shared her enthusiasm and experiences when she was in the running to be the first teacher in space. Hickey, now a junior high physical education teacher in Bradenton, Florida, just knew McAuliffe would be picked from more than 11,000 applicants.

"As a teacher now, I know that I want to show respect and show my students that I care," Hickey says. "I can say to emulate how she was, would be a service to these kids for sure."

Hickey joins a number of members of the class of '86 in Concord who became teachers and guidance counselors in the 30 years since they and other students of all ages nationwide watched with disbelief and horror as the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, becoming a generational touchstone.

"I try to be very mindful," says Joanne Walton, who teaches grades four through six in Fairfax, Virginia. She says she sometimes goes through a "What would Christa do?" mantra in her teaching.

"She knew that teaching was way more than just imparting information and that it was really important to know students," Walton says.

Holly Merrow, a math teacher for students in fifth through eighth grades in Camden, Maine, had McAuliffe for American Women in History, a class that McAuliffe created and is still taught at Concord High. She worries people will forget her and her motto: "I touch the future. I teach."

"I hear people use it, and I wonder if they know that it came from her," she says.

Members of the class of '86 have petitioned the Obama administration to have a national holiday named for McAuliffe and the Challenger crew, "to honor Christa and the other astronauts for their ultimate sacrifice." The hope was to reach 100,000 signatures by Friday, but it has fewer than 200 so far.

Concord, a city of about 42,000, built and named a planetarium for McAuliffe, 37 when she died, then later changed it to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, recognizing native son Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Just a few years ago, it named an elementary school for her.

The city has been low-key on marking Challenger anniversaries as her family stayed in Concord and her young children, Scott and Caroline, grew up. Today, both are educators with children of their own. Caroline declined to be interviewed, and Scott did not respond to an email.

"The passage of 30 years since the Challenger accident is not of great personal significance to our family," their father and Christa's widower, Steven McAuliffe, said in a statement. "For us, Challenger will always be an event that occurred just recently. Our thoughts and memories of Christa will always be fresh and comforting."

McAuliffe, a federal judge, added, "We are happy to know that Christa's goals have been largely accomplished in that she has inspired generations of classroom teachers and students, and has focused public attention on the critical importance of teachers to our nation's well-being."

Also Thursday, students at Concord High will hold a moment of silence, writing about their dreams as part of a "Reach for the Stars" assignment and listening to discussions about McAuliffe. They are gathering old yearbook photos and combing through the planetarium archives to put together a permanent display.

Scott Reynolds, a 1987 alumnus who teaches science at the elite St. Paul's School in Concord, conducts a field trip to a local cemetery with his students for one course. The students, from all over the world, get demographic data from the gravesites and make a spreadsheet linking people's deaths to wars and diseases.

When they're done, they drive by Christa McAuliffe's gravestone, and he asks if they know who she was.

"There's always one kid who knows," he says. "I can't say I'm depressed. It's 30 years. It's completely understandable that they don't remember this. I'm more enlightened by the fact that there's always somebody who knows who she was."

Very cool. :thumbsup

Old Texan · Jan 28, 2016

Regular citizens, but true heroes stretching the limits for all mankind to prosper......RIP

djunkie · Jan 28, 2016

Cole Trickle said:
We were watching live in our elementary school classroom

So were we. I remember the silence cause everyone wasn't sure what really had happened. Teacher walked over and turned the tv off and started crying. I can still picture the whole thing.

River Runnin · Jan 28, 2016

Not only remember where I was, But lost a friend and co-worker that day!!....Greg Jarvis...RIP........

rivrrts429 · Jan 28, 2016

I remember watching in elementary school too, probably 3rd grade.

Reagan had a way of communicating the right words to the nation after the disaster. He was supposed to give the State of the Union address but instead spoke from the Oval Office...

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