I felt.. bad watching that breakup, it reminded me of Columbia.

Which coincidentally launched 22 years ago today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107

	▲	Molitor5901 6 months ago \| parent [-]
		Seeing it streak across the sky just reminded me of how important this is and how critically SpaceX must get it right before sending anyone up. I will never forget the trepidation of watching Bob and Doug go up and in tears when it was clear they made it.

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inglor_cz 6 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OTOH I remembered Columbia too and I felt good knowing that Starship is being tested thoroughly without jeopardizing the crew.

The space-shuttle could not fly to the orbit automatically. It had to have people on board, and the first flight, IIRC, came close to a disaster.

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birdman3131 6 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember being woken up by the thunder from Columbia.

Lost it over the years but I used to have a photo of about 20 vans of people parked on our property doing the search for debris. Don't think they found any on our land but there was a 3 ft chunk about 5 miles down the road.

	▲	wingspar 6 months ago \| parent [-]
		I remember waiting for the sonic boom, that never came…

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xattt 6 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, but I thought this too.

	▲	Molitor5901 6 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's a weird deja vu feeling of uneasiness. I can't explain it, but I think also Columbia really hit me as my generation's Challenger.
	▲	throitallaway 6 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Meta-commentary is annoying (yes, I realize the irony.)