By 1986, space shuttle launches had become routine, so I
can't recall why I recorded this one (maybe because it was an early-morning
launch, and I thought it would be more spectacular than most). When I got home
from class around lunchtime and turned on the TV, I thought it peculiar that
they were still live, on the air.
A mission delay, I thought.
Tom Brokaw said "let's take another look at what
happened this morning." They rolled those few critical seconds of videotape
with only the cockpit-mission control audio, and the fateful "Go for
throttle-up..."
It
haunts me, still.
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