What I remember most about that day is how blase we had become about the shuttle missions until that day. I was in my car that afternoon, heading back tot he office..and the all-news station switched to a live feed from the launch about 30 seconds before,and cut away from it about 30 seconds after the launch..they went to a commercial....you'd think it was like a plane taking off from JFK..then they cut in to a SPECIAL report...
i remember that it kept being postponed... i was a sophomore in college... i remember my mom telling me the night before that it might happen in the morning... when i awoke the next morning, i asked her if she knew if it was going to launch or if it had launched... she said it was still postponed... and then a little later she said, no--it was back on... and then disaster...