At a lunch dinette off of St Barnabas Road in Temple Hills, Maryland, just outside of DC. A small TV over the counter reported the news, and the video was horrifying.
Skiing with family and friends in Colorado.
We came down the mountain to get in the lift line, and there was no one in line. We asked the attendant what was going on and he explained that the “space shuttle blew up. Killed everyone. Everybody’s in the lodge.”
Very sad indeed.
When I found out I was in a corridor between high school classes. I remember standing in the hallway, stunned. They wheeled in teh television.
I found out as I entered my 11th grade American Lit class. The teacher had a TV and we watched news coverage all hour. It was so riveting, we didn’t want to go to our next class.
in-processing for my first unit, 278th Signal Company, 57th Sig Bn. 3rd Sig Bde. Ft Hood, TX.
Working for 3M in Minnesota.
They brought in a TV so we could all see what was going on.
Leiser Supercenter (TV, Audio, etc), Norwich CT. Had the news on about 50 TV’s of various sizes. I don’t think we sold a lot that day.
8th grade...Sister Mary came on the intercom and asked us to pray for America and the astronauts. Went home early.
Remember it well. I was working at the dealership where I was selling broadcast video gear. The tailwind from Reagan was in full force, everybody had money and was buying expensive stuff all day long because they could make great money with it. Other than the shuttle disaster, those were just great days.
I remember it as though it were yesterday.
sitting in my dorm room at Texas A&M watching the launch. It took a while to sink in what had really happened. I remember the launch announcer saying “Houston, we appear to have a major malfunction...”.
Watching Sesame Street with my then toddlers. My father in law, who worked at Johnson Space Center at the time, called me and I changed the channel to watch. It was a sad day for our nation.
I was still asleep in Pacific Beach, CA at 10:30 AM since I was in submarine sonar school and classes went until 11:30 PM.
I was at work. It was the day I found out I was pregnant with my second son.
In Montreal at a Paper Industry Convention.
Reviewing missile crewmember training records in the 66th SMS offices at Ellsworth AFB.
Hangar Deck Leading Petty Officer USS Okinawa LPH-3 inport Naval Station San Diego, CA walking aft.
I was in a classroom at Fort Leavenworth, KS where I was attending the Combined Arms and Services Staff School. Our group leader turned on the TV to CNN and we were all aghast. Classes were suspended for the remainder of the day.
The Enlisted Mess on the USS Iwo Jima was undergoing renovations, so I was having lunch on the USS Yellowstone when the news came across.