No. But this is fun to play with: http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

My sister (still horse mad and utterly disinterested in science and technology, now as then) heard about it on the news and rather matter of factly told me 'Oh, the space shuttle exploded' in passing, along with some trivia she gave equal weight to.

I went to my room and cried. For both the astronauts who'd died and because I knew the space program would be halted for a long while.

Well it either has or it hasn't. But it's still going to continue looking pretty much the same to us for around 640 years after [it blows / it blew] anyway.