Someone here recommend this, I got one off eBay and have passed around to all my geeky friend, find it back on my desk. This DVD is 45 minutes of super slow motion footage and voice over by engineers focused on the process of actual moments of launch.

Will pick winner sometime midday Friday and ship over the weekend if I have your address. All I ask is once you're done with it you pass it on to others in your circle-o'-geeks.

Not to put a wet blanket on the Shuttle, but I don't know many folks who don't think of the Challenger when Shuttle is mentioned. If you were alive and aware on January 28, 1986 list where you were/what you were doing when you heard.

I was in a database design class in college. Pretty funny elective for an Accounting major....

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In please, always fascinated by all things Apollo/Shuttle related.

Jan 28, 1986: I was 26 days old, so probably eating/sleeping/other baby things.

Feb 1, 2003: My mom woke us up & we watched the news for a while with the initial reporting on Columbia.

RIP: Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Jarvis, McAuliffe
RIP: Brown, Husband, Clark, Chawla, Anderson, McCool, Ramon

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Very nice offer.

I was in middle school, on the playground during lunch, Colorado time When I found out.

Apparently it had happened just before then as kids in science classes watched it happen on tv. I remember several teachers crying.

Thanks!

My dad worked at NASA and I got to check out Columbia in the hangar when they were getting it ready for launch, shortly before it disintegrated. It was a humbling experience that I never will forget. I LOVE the space shuttle program and was extremely sad to see it go, and even sadder to see a useless ex president cancel its replacement.

I was in eighth grade. We were watching it live in science class. Our teacher didn't know what to do with us. It will be one of those things that will stick with me forever.

I would love to have a copy of this. My father was **the** designer of the orbiter when he worked for North American/Rockwell. He ended up being the Vice President of Space Division. Dad was able to get me into the cockpit of one of the Orbiters when it was undergoing updates in Palmdale - my favorite picture of Dad is both of us in the pilot and copilot seats of the Orbiter.

Thanks for considering me for the karma.

I was in my managers office discussing something while working for IBM in Burlington VT when a teammate came in and said “your wife just called and said the shuttle exploded on takeoff”. It was surreal. Then, because of a storm we did not have power for the next five days, so we didn’t see it explode over and over again on tv.

As an aside, I have a patch that was in space and signed by the crew of STS-116 because a close friend is an actual rocket scientist who had a satellite deployed on that mission. For me, Really cool......

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I would love to have a copy of this. My father was **the** designer of the orbiter when he worked for North American/Rockwell. He ended up being the Vice President of Space Division. Dad was able to get me into the cockpit of one of the Orbiters when it was undergoing updates in Palmdale - my favorite picture of Dad is both of us in the pilot and copilot seats of the Orbiter.

Thanks for considering me for the karma.

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I was in 7th grade at the time, in math class exactly. The science classroom was directly next door, and the teacher had the TV on so the kids could watch the launch. When the shuttle exploded, kids came running out into the other classes and started yelling what happened. From what I remember, at that point in time all classes essentially stopped and a lot of kids and teachers crammed into the science classroom to watch the footage. Very sad, and one of those memories I'll regrettably have my whole life. I always wanted to be an astronaut growing up; I asked my dad to send me to space camp in AL, but my dad was too cheap. God bless all our astronauts, even the current ones.

Please include me, our kids would be super fascinated watching this. I show them videos on Youtube. I went to Space Academy in AL around the 6th grade. I was 5 years old when the Challenger exploded, we had just returned home from vacation in Florida over Christmas break. The only time I've been to Disney World. I remember we got up very early one morning there to try and watch Columbia take off, but the mission was scrubbed. Watching a rerun of the Challenger explode on TV was the first time I saw my father cry. When Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003, I was working my first job for Enterprise Rent-a-Car and heard it on the radio of a rental car I was driving. The Shuttle was a flawed and inefficient design by today's standards, but it sure was cool. To think what NASA has done with its meager budget compared to entitlement programs, the military, etc.

Please include me.

Was in Hawaii with my now ex wife. She had just stepped out of the shower and was drying off when I said "the space shuttle just blew up."

It took her a minute to understand what that meant.

For the folks interested in more of the technical details of the failure, in design and process not just actual event, I'd recommend this book. This was actually one of a few that a prior firm I worked with used as example of how wrong things can go if you develop a culture of not listening to the people who actually know what they are doing, in pursuit of your goals. It gets a little draggy 2/3 way in as they delve into the testing specs, but it's a good read.

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I was downrange at work at Fire Sta. 2 on the ocean inlet into the Ft. Pierce basin. We went out to watch the launch over the inlet. The launch started fine and then. The rest is indelibly in my minds eye. Seeing all the pieces making smoke looking contrails falling down like a failed July 4th firework. It was a sad day for the world and a stark reminder. Our explorations have always been paid in blood and pain.

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Thank you, I will very much enjoy watching this.

I will do as you wish, and pass to a couple friends I know will also enjoy it.

Thank you again for your generosity.

Doug

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