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My 10 year old son was home that day, he was sick. Together we watched the shuttle take off. A few days later he decided to do his oral report in Language class on Neil Armstrong. I just ordered him new books, a space jump suit and the Apollo 11 patch for his presentation on Feb 10th. He has been very interested in the space program. This morning I had to take him to religion at 10 and did not tell him. I will tell him in a little while when I pick him up. Wish me luck.

Same here, my 13 yr old boy was home sick also, and I was on vacation. He asked me what time was the shuttle due to launch, I told him and we watched it together, Never did that before. He was interested in it because of the ant experiment on board from Syracuse.

Years ago, on a brisk morning here in Palmdale ... we stood in our back yard and watched Columbia being trailered from Plant 42 up 10th Street West (now Challenger Way) on its first journey out of the "factory". My husband, me and each of our four children choked up with pride at the sight ... something we would do several more times for Challenger, Endeavour, etc at their roll outs.

One of my children won the Snoopy Award (the highest civilian award from NASA) years later as she worked for Rockwell for all of her working years (when Rockwell was in the Space shuttle mode) as the prime contractor here in Palmdale.

I can't express my sorrow as our family has drawn together this AM, to mourn this loss of human life and the loss of another beautiful "Eagle".