Fast-Forward a little over two years. During the summer of 1988, my …show more content…
I remember walking into the classroom and immediately asking the teacher if we would get to see the launch, and she assured me that we would. We have to bear in mind that this was 1998. Televisions were not in every classroom, so they had to be brought in on those large rolling carts. As the day progressed, we listened to a ham radio which our teacher had brought in and tuned into a Cape Canaveral frequency which allowed us to monitor communications between the shuttle crew and Cape Canaveral. These conversations were fascinating, but as we got closer to launch time, no television arrived in the classroom. My anxiety grew and turned into the second heartbreak of the