24 years ago...

[johno]

I was walking down a hallway at NORAD, when the boards lit up. Without the *exercise* light on.

I raced to the nearest office, to find everyone clustered around the TV watching as CNN ran the explosion over and over and over...

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[it-aint-easy.livejournal.com]

On my way to work that day, I heard on the radio that they'd be launching. I hadn't watched a launch in a long time, so I searched the TV channels at work, but nobody was carrying the launch. An hour or so later, I came out of my lab, and everybody was clustered around the TV.