Hey Gen-X - Remember The Challenger Explosion?!

Hey #GenX - Do you remember where you were when the Challenger space shuttle exploded?
#80s #popculture #rememberwhen #nasa #space

[Camila]

My teacher said he was at that school, but then he got sick so he went to the nurse and they started watching it and they watched the explosion. The nurse started crying and he started crying.❤

[camtheram]

Fun fact they originally wanted big bird to go to space

[edroosa]

In 1986 there were also some “Gen X” kids in college as well.

[DrLotko]

1986, Chernobyl, Challenger. And people wonder why we are so pessimistic... In Europe, Chernobyl was a bigger deal to us than Challenger, but still...

[grantdavis]

I was born three years later. I remember that shuttle disaster that happened in 2003, that was big news.

[chriswiese]

Yep, I was in science class watching it on a TV cart.

[davidbruce]

It was my birthday wish to watch that launch .that was the day I stopped wanting to be a astronaut. I turned 10 years old that day .

[happydave]

I remember watching it in the gym. Sad

[Sadarsa]

yep, that's how i watched it too. I remember it was during our Math class... I also remember the very next day on the playground the running joke was that NASA stands for Need Another Seven Astronauts.

[TheMagnumks]

We watched the Challenger launch in school when I went to Boynton Beach Elementary and I ended up going to Christa McAuliffe Middle too.

[twotreasurehunters]

Yeah 6th grade we all watched it happen live., quite a acary time as my dad worked building shuttles at the time.

[justinwyatt]

I’m from Huntsville and went to Challenger Elementary School

[zachpendleton]

I went to her elementary school also the challengers

[iAMgamingKnight]

Since we are comparing trauma. Hey, millennials, remember that time when we witnessed over 2900 people die on TV while in school from a couple of towers falling?