Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

@akindheart Did you see it coming down?

@Eddiesolds it was in a lot of relatively small pieces spread over a wide area of East Texas and into Louisiana.

@exexec Yes i remember. I was just aski g if she saw it while she was driving. Thats all. Thanks eh!

@Eddiesolds yes. i saw it split apart and i knew then something was up. i live south of there. i have old polaroids of it somewhere. i had a canon sure shot under my seat for my job.

@akindheart Gosh your heart must have just dropped. Gosh what a nightmare

@akindheart I saw it up close before its first flight.

@Eddiesolds i saw the challenger with Christa McCauliffe in it. the rocket split. it took me a minute to realize something one was wrong.

@exexec texas or Florida. challenger or Columbia?

@akindheart I was in California at the plant where the Shuttle orbiters were made. I was in a meeting with NASA and Air Force people, and we weren't allowed to see the Challenger event until we got home that night. When we left the facility, newspeople were everywhere and we were told to tell them we knew nothing. It was true. We knew nothing.

@akindheart I live in TX but spent a lot of time at most NASA centers.

@exexec WOW!!! how sad but exciting to be that involved.

@exexec iam just south of Merritt Island. I toured it many years ago. you have a neat career

@akindheart Somebody interrupted the meeting and announced what happened. That's all we knew.

@akindheart It was fun, but I'm glad to be out of it.

@exexec oh wow. so you were in the thick of things but didn't know. wow.

@akindheart Those of us in the meeting knew less than 99% of America until we got home and turned on our TV; or in my case, until I got to my hotel room.

@akindheart I was in Merritt island wit family visiting my inlaws we were devastated and my father in law worked at the cape .

@olderuncle944 that is heartbreaking