Memes

Not only did they broadcast the explosion they also caused it. Haha(not funny)

Richard Feynman was the one who let slip innocently what the cause was during an international press conference and made a lot of people in Washington very very mad.

Basically, the Whitehouse pushed NASA to launch despite the weather being too cold and that caused an expansion joint of an SRB to fail.

Feynman showed the world what happens to the expansion joint material by putting it in some ice water for five minutes during the press conference and showed it crumbled after he took it out of the glass.

That man was an international treasure and I miss him very much.

Americans Bein the First Nation dropping a nuke on another country…

This legitimately almost ruined NASA.

By then shuttle flights were so routine I didn't even get up to watch the liftoff. My mom called me before work and told me it blew up.

Christa McAuliffe trivia: she was the only one in her training group who didn't throw up on the "Vomit Comet".

My nextdoor neighbor was in her class at the time. His thousand-yard stare when he got home that day was quite haunting.

We watched it live in elementary school, most of the kids didn't get what had happened right away. Our teacher was just standing there stunned until an announcement came on the intercom asking all the teachers to turn it off. They didn't say anything to us, just tried to pretend like we didn't just watch people blow up live.