[BuckeyeTexan]

Bump for the 29th anniversary of our watching Challenger live on the ground. Today always makes me sad.

[Moonman62]

Columbia was the heaviest shuttle ever launched. All that weight was descending into a dense winter atmosphere with a hole in the wing. Had they dumped all the weight possible and attempted a landing in Australia with a modified reentry program to take stress off the bad wing they may have survived.

[TigersEye]

Thanks for the ping. That is a day I will never forget. Can't believe it has been 29 years. I remember just how we felt standing there on the causeway with 200 or so others in near silence. Like someone had given us a big punch in the gut.

I can't quite believe it has been seven years since I made that post to you. Slow the clock down! lol