20 years

The space shuttle Enterprise on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Air and Space annex.

Darla and I were talking in disbelief yesterday that it's been 20 years since the shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff. All of a sudden, we've got a son on the way and we're remembering things that happened 20 years ago. Yikes!

Over at Il Filosofo, Austin reminds us that "We are farther removed in time from the Challenger explosion than that day was from the moon landing. Yet we’re still flying the same shuttles, which one astronaut recently called a 'deathtrap.' "

That's really hard for my young mind to believe.

Check out Austin's post to read part of President Reagan's speech on the night of Jan. 28, 1986.

A breakdown of what happened to the shuttle is available here.

Posted by JRC at January 29, 2006 02:18 PM | TrackBack