From Challenger to Columbia.

[RICHARD]

I was asleep on the couch, I was sick from work that day when the phone rang and my friend called and told me that the shuttle (Challenger) blew up on take off......I laughed and told him he was joking-guys have a ferociously bad sense of comedy-I turned on the TV and watched the coverage...It was sad beyond belief...I remember watching Mc Auliffe's parents on the screen and how her mother buried her face in her husband's shoulder.....

The other memory I have of the accident was a news conference where a NASA official, His name is Jay Green, was answering questions. I still remember the look on his face and his hands...he had a pen or paperclip in them and he kept flipping it over and over again...He would look up, take a question and go to work-flipping, flipping, flipping....