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I was in high school when that happened. I had been following the space program leading up to it and there had been multiple problems.
Everyone was excited because, hey, teacher in space, but on the day of everyone was freaking out.
Kid next to me leaned over:
"Do you know what's going on?"
"Space shuttle probably blew up."
"How do you know that?"
"They've been having problems all week and it's incredibly dangerous, what else could it be?"
Then they actually rolled televisions into the classrooms to show us...