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John Byrne
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YouTubeIt all seems so serene.
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Michael Penn
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The protracted silence is quite affecting. But I'm always impressed with the unflappable professionalism of the people involved in these tragic accidents.
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John Cole
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I Watched it live on TV in a bookstore in Oscoda MI outside of Wurtsmith AFB where I was stationed at that time.
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Brian Floyd
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I was in school. They rolled a tv into the classroom so we could watch the news coverage.
The only other time I remember them doing that was when Mount St. Helens erupted.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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I also was in school - 1st grade! - when this occurred. It's strange because for a long time I thought it was a "false memory," and that students hadn't seen it live, but research tells me my memory of watching it happen in real-time is true.
As an adult who became a teacher, if there was ever an opportunity for me to go into space, I would jump at it in a heartbeat.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 29 May 2026 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | 6
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I used to think the same, but the more I have learned about how physically unpleasant space flight is, the less inclined I have become to participate.
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Charles Valderrama
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a huge fireball during a test in Florida yesterday. LINK
Jeff Bezos described the incident as a "very rough day" in a major setback for the company's space venture. Elon Musk said of the incident: "Rockets are hard."
-C!
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John Byrne
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The early days of the American space program was a string of catastrophic failures. All reported live. “Our rockets always blow up” was almost a mantra at NASA. The Russians, on the other hand, reported only their successes.
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Bill Collins
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I remember i saw it as breaking news whilst visiting my
aunt, and driving home as it snowed, a minor detail but it
stayed with me.
It'll be 25 years, quarter of a century this year since
9/11 and those memories are just as vivid.
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John Byrne
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I was on the phone with a friend when we were interrupted by her Call Waiting. Someone telling her an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I trotted down to the TV room, expecting to see some small civilian craft dangling from the side of the building. By then the second plane had hit. So many times I have wondered how that day would have played out if we’d still been in the brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. My third floor studio commanded a spectacular view of the south end of Manhattan.
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Andrew Bitner
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I was in my second year of grad school then. Getting ready to do a stint in the library, I saw on TV about the first strike--then heard about the second while putting books away a very short time later. A few of us went up to that side of our school building; my office (I was a PhD candidate then) had a view of the Towers. It was pretty horrifying. As for Challenger, I was muddling through a term paper at my frat house when someone yelled for us to get upstairs fast. We saw the coverage a few minutes after the announcement went out.
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Frank Stone
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A bit of artistic synchronicity with this topic: A few days ago I was browsing the Heritage Auctions site and came across page 23 of Man of Steel #1, featuring the "space plane" that Clark would have to rescue, including an image of the second panel with the paste-up art pulled back to show the space shuttle that was drawn originally. I decided to open Clip Studio Paint and use both images to create a cleaned-up "restored" copy of the page.
It's a little haunting seeing the page in its original form, knowing the real-life history behind the change (and having been alive for it).
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