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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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Could have been worse. They wanted to send Big Bird.
Also, I wasn’t in kindergarten yet or I’d have seen it. I think this is a core Gen X memory that Millennials don’t have.
Yeah millenial's earliest memory of tragedy is said to be 9/11. Can confirm as a baby millenial who was 7 at the time.
Hey we also got a shuttle explosion, it was just sandwiched between gestures loosely at the past 30 years
There's speculation that Reagan was the impetus behind the "go fever" that caused the Challenger disaster. The idea is that he wanted to have a live uplink to Challenger during his State of the Union, and that his desire to use them as props was why NASA was in such an all-fired hurry to launch no matter the consequences.
No idea how grounded in reality the speculation is, but it tracks for Reagan.