It was 20 years ago on the 28th of January, 1986. According to this MSNBC article 'most' people didn't watch it live, though it was transmitted by satellite to a lot of schools. As it turns out I was in one of those schools.

I remember how sad I was that day. I also remember Challenger jokes being made weeks later. One of them involved the soda 7Up.

It was clearly avoidable. I remember the discussions in the news about how it was so clearly avoidable, and how it was all a matter of faulty O-rings. How has this been so easily forgotten since then?

Tags: history
feeling: : contemplative