Booney wrote:Can anyone else believe it's 30 years (!) since the space shuttle Challenger blew up just after take off?
30 years.
I was at Magic Mountain (!) with some mates. We noticed a flag outside had been lowered to half mast and began making smartarse teenaged comments amongst each other: "oh look, some bugger has carked it".
Then I got home and turned the telly on ...
Magellan wrote:I also remember my dad a few weeks or months later regaling us with a number of off-colour jokes recently acquired from work about the Challenger disaster.
What were the last words heard on the transmission from the cockpit of the space shuttle?
"If she wants to drive, then let her have a turn"