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Side trivia: 20 years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board. http

Side trivia: 20 years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

graphe 4y ago
I remember seeing this in school when I was a kid. That was when space exploration because tainted in my generation. It was cool but astronaut wasn't something anyone wanted to be anymore so you die in the atmosphere. Sorry it was the challenger!
- bluGill 4y ago
  Are you thinking of Challenger which was more than 20 years ago?
- dylan604 4y ago
  > It was cool but astronaut wasn't something anyone wanted to be anymore so you die in the atmosphere. That's a strong disagree from me and people I spoke with. There were lots of "if they knocked on my door today asking if I wanted to join, I'd do it in a heartbeat" comments. I was one of them, as a 6th grader. Nobody every thought being an astronaut was without risk, did they? Every time a fighter pilot takes off, there's an inherent risk with that, yet people are lined up to join. I'm sorry you're such a "fair weather fan", but that just means one less person to compete with for those that actually want to do it
  - graphe 4y ago
    It wasn't just the students. I think if the attitude of the teachers were different I might still have wanted to be one. Safety was important and teachers were cautious. Were you shown the hour(s) of exercises they had to do daily to maintain their muscle? That was enough to make most kids say no thanks if chosen lol.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      I guess I was 11 or 12, so I was an extremely active kid. Sitting inside not running around bored the shit out of me, so getting paid to do physical activities while training to be an astronaut? HellzToTheYeah where do I sign. If they knocked on my door now, I'd still sign up. Again, I'd say "fair weather fan" if you can't handle a little exercise to be able to see the view for yourself. You sound like someone that is unimpressed by the view of a backyard telescope because Hubble's images are better. To each their own, but I'm one for the actual experience instead of pictures of other people's experiences. That's just one of the many reasons I don't give damn about following people on Insta or whatever platform.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Day or two after that happened, it occurred to me to scan back through the Cowboy Bebop episode "Wild Horses" and see which shuttle it'd featured, because I couldn't recall. It was Columbia, of course, so that episode joined seemingly every movie made between '73 and '01 and set in NY (that was still pretty fresh, too, mind you) in being a bit of a distracting watch, in a way that was not originally intended.
wkat4242 4y ago
I remember it well, I was on a trip in Australia and I saw the news photos in a newspaper in a shop in Glenelg, Adelaide. One of those things so shocking that you remember (not 9/11 or Kennedy shocking but still)

graphe 4y ago

I remember seeing this in school when I was a kid. That was when space exploration because tainted in my generation. It was cool but astronaut wasn't something anyone wanted to be anymore so you die in the atmosphere. Sorry it was the challenger!

bluGill 4y ago
Are you thinking of Challenger which was more than 20 years ago?
dylan604 4y ago
> It was cool but astronaut wasn't something anyone wanted to be anymore so you die in the atmosphere. That's a strong disagree from me and people I spoke with. There were lots of "if they knocked on my door today asking if I wanted to join, I'd do it in a heartbeat" comments. I was one of them, as a 6th grader. Nobody every thought being an astronaut was without risk, did they? Every time a fighter pilot takes off, there's an inherent risk with that, yet people are lined up to join. I'm sorry you're such a "fair weather fan", but that just means one less person to compete with for those that actually want to do it
- graphe 4y ago
  It wasn't just the students. I think if the attitude of the teachers were different I might still have wanted to be one. Safety was important and teachers were cautious. Were you shown the hour(s) of exercises they had to do daily to maintain their muscle? That was enough to make most kids say no thanks if chosen lol.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    I guess I was 11 or 12, so I was an extremely active kid. Sitting inside not running around bored the shit out of me, so getting paid to do physical activities while training to be an astronaut? HellzToTheYeah where do I sign. If they knocked on my door now, I'd still sign up. Again, I'd say "fair weather fan" if you can't handle a little exercise to be able to see the view for yourself. You sound like someone that is unimpressed by the view of a backyard telescope because Hubble's images are better. To each their own, but I'm one for the actual experience instead of pictures of other people's experiences. That's just one of the many reasons I don't give damn about following people on Insta or whatever platform.

yamtaddle 4y ago

Day or two after that happened, it occurred to me to scan back through the Cowboy Bebop episode "Wild Horses" and see which shuttle it'd featured, because I couldn't recall. It was Columbia, of course, so that episode joined seemingly every movie made between '73 and '01 and set in NY (that was still pretty fresh, too, mind you) in being a bit of a distracting watch, in a way that was not originally intended.

wkat4242 4y ago

I remember it well, I was on a trip in Australia and I saw the news photos in a newspaper in a shop in Glenelg, Adelaide. One of those things so shocking that you remember (not 9/11 or Kennedy shocking but still)