40 years ago today

[Altitude sickness]

Another day the nation was united. At least for a week or so. A patch we received for retrieving the shuttle, Astronauts and the booster Oring.

 

[coreydb]

Yeah....I remember hearing the news at work. The disaster was all that was shown on the evening news. It was absolutely surreal and sobering.

 

[skydiver386]

Not an easy task while an entire Nation is grieving. They certainly picked the best men for the job.

 

[Surgeon1]

I was a Trauma surgeon in the busiest Trauma Center in the US in Detroit the morning of this
tragedy. Had just finished up a busy night of Knife & Gun Club cases (6 total). Standing in the surgery lounge watching the launch with several of the staff on the 2 new big screen TV's. Remember it like it was yesterday. More staff poured into the room and some staff even rotated in & out of their OR rooms (36 total OR's) to see the coverage thru the morning. New elective cases were held up for a couple hours.
Everyone was in shock! I covered call again that night and it was the only night in 7 years I can remember there wasn't a single trauma case! Even the drug dealers, addicts, hookers, and criminals we delt with daily seemed to take the night off. It will forever be ingrained in my memory.
God bless you and those that worked for years to give us the answers the whole world needed.

 

[Brickman301]

Wow, hard to believe that was 40 years ago!
I was in the 2nd grade and we watched it at school.
Also easy to remember as today is my mother’s birthday. Little did I know then, that it would also become my wife’s birthday.
Yes, my mom and my wife share the same birthday, different years of course!