What were you doing when.....

[Eva Elisabeth]

Mike, I'm about the same age as you are, and for me, too, the Challenger tragedy was the first one that I consciously witnessed and that deeply shocked me. I'll never forget the pictures of the smiling crew and the following explosion. Space travel was so fascinating - remained always a bit surreal and science-fictional; on the other hand it seemed so unbelievable that modern technology could fail to such an extent.