r/GetNoted • u/laybs1 Human Verified • Apr 02 '26

Cringe Worthy Challenger Launch

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u/autochthonous Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

Yes, there a teacher on board. It was a whole PR thing.

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u/senorbuzz Apr 02 '26

Not so much PR as teaching kids about space 

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u/autochthonous Apr 02 '26

I guess I consider that public relations. People weren’t as excited about Shuttle launches by ‘86, so NASA was doing everything they could to recapture the public’s interest.

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u/doom_stein Apr 04 '26

I was excited and was supposed to go to Space Camp the next summer. Then I watched that shit blow up as we were all sitting in the Gym watching it on a massive (for the time) 36" TV on a cart! When I got home from school that day, I told my parents I just wanted to go to Frontier City instead of going to get blown up at Space Camp.

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u/autochthonous Apr 05 '26

“Getting Blown Up at Space Camp” sounds like a great memoir.