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Originally Posted by billnchristy
Challenger- We watched it live in school in Maine. It was a pretty wild day, saw my first attempt at mass grief counseling and the school did a great job not trying to stop us from seeing it. I imagine some places might have tried to censor it.
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Remember that this was NASA's huge "teacher in space" mission, where a real-life school teacher (Christa McAuliffe) was flying to teach live school lessons from space. NASA hyped up the whole mission in K-12 schools, and many classroom TV's around the country were tuned into the launch and subsequent "major malfunction" when they normally would be doing normal classroom stuff.....