Thanks Bobgggg And Ziggy

Packages arrived today. Bob Thanks for the NYST stamps those are pretty neat stamps and if you hold them the right way the perfin is my nick initials..CW. Ziggy thank you for the U.S.I.R.S. stamps & the "officially sealed" stamps.they are all truly uniqe looking stamps. Also thanks for the Challenger Covers and others. Looking at the Challenger covers reminded me of the Challenger Disaster and what I was doing when I heard it had blown up.I was actually home sick that day and was in the middle of The Price Is Right when they broke in with the news. What where you guys doing when it happend? I would be very interested in hearing what people where doing when the Challneger Blew up.

Hi Cim

On january 28, 1986 I was living in Concord, NH and working as an independant sattelite dish antenna installer. I was in a field behind a customer's home tuning in a new dish. I was using the NASA channel to fine tune when the launch took place. Even though Crista Mccauliffe was the local hero the only people seeing the launch live were the school children that were recieving special cable feeds. I went into the home to tell the owner what had just happened and was told by them and the gentleman that sold them the dish that I wasn't funny and shouldn't joke that way. About 15 seconds later the local network broke in with the news.
Richard

Wow. It is really amazing how people react to tragedies like that and 9/11. I didn't know anything about 9/11 until it was almost three hours afterwards. It bites when you don't have cable service to find out about events like these.

Cim, my Father who lives on Tampa Bay swears he saw the Challenger , thats a long way from Cape Canaveral!!

I was home on leave and watched it live on cable. I remember on the live feed some of the crowd thought the explosion was part of the liftoff and applauded for a few seconds, until they realized what really happened.

Charles

I was on duty on the bridge of my ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea when the crew of a PE anti-submarine aircraft told me by radio. In those days we didn't have instantaneous communications like we do today.

Charles, I remember seeing the video of the crowd cheering then hearing the announcers remark of "appearently a major malfunction". Even then as young as I was, I remember thinking to myself, "major malfunction, huh? Do ya really think so morons??"

I don't remember where I was at the time--I do remember the sadness of the school children! It really impacted my kids. My daughter (several years later) did a report to try to win a trip to Space Camp--she wrote it on the bravery of the astronauts and centered her report on the teacher Christa.
She won! What a great opportunity for my daughter that changed her whole way of thinking about space.

Gussyboy1

Gussy it's very interesting you mention your duaghters report with Christa in it. I also did a speech for an Optimist Oratoracle Contest, the topic was Destiny Choice not Chance, I also used Christa in it. At the time of the contest I got 3rd place, but after some other factors where weighed in I wound up getting Honorary First Place. The other contestants had had about 3 months to research and prepare their speeches, I only had 3 weeks.