I was in middle school, 13 years old in the 7th grade (Cue 80s music). A group of kids came in and started laughing at the TV screen and was promptly suspended. I watched the screen rather indifferently until the Teacher told me what was going on. Yes, can’t believe it was that long ago either.
I was at college, walking by the student union with the tv and long rows of cube couches for commuter students to park themselves between classes.Sat down at that tv for the rest of the day, missed all my classes.
I was in my lunch break at work in Electronics Park Bdlg #6 Cathode Ray Tube Operations, when it was on TV and saw it explode. It was one of those moments.
I was at JSC when alarms stared going of on the old line printers chunking out telemetry data. I told my manager that it looked like we lost the vehicle and he responded don’t even joke like that.