• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 hours ago

      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.

    • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      20 hours ago

      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.