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      10-08-2018, 01:37 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by usshelena725 View Post
Yeah, I was in elementary school in Deland, FL at the time. My friend and I were really into the shuttle so we both noticed that the launch looked very different than the last ones we had seen, but didn't really understand why nor did we think anything bad had happened.

After a while, the principle wheeled a TV on a stand into the classroom and turned it on to the news showing what happened. Was pretty hard core.
I was born in October of '76.

I was big into the space program during those years. The movie Space Camp came out that year and coincidentally my father took us to Kennedy Space center that year for a tour. I'm pretty sure I still have some freeze dried ice cream from there. Years later my father became friends with whoever take pictures of the launches for NASA. I have some great shots that he had emailed my father over the years.