• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    My elementary school didn’t hide the Challenger shuttle disaster with us, but for some reason they wouldn’t let us watch it happen live. Which, I guess, saved us from being as traumatized as we could have been. I remember the teacher coming into the lunch room and telling us and the big gasp. That mission was a big deal to kids because a school teacher would be on board, the first civilian astronaut.