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Who Remember This? We Also Broadcasted It Live To Schoolrooms (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

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