I had just turned 10 and just figured out how to attend Space Camp during the upcoming summer (it took a lot of phone calls and waiting for stuff in through mail back then). We watched in my school's library, Peter Jennings on ABC News. Most of us (kids and teachers) were too shocked to cry. I wound up going to Space Camp 6 months later, as planned. I still have my Space Camp wings, cap, certificate, and flight suit, as well as the bronze commemorative Challenger coin I bought there, "Reaching for the Stars."
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I had just turned 10 and just figured out how to attend Space Camp during the upcoming summer (it took a lot of phone calls and waiting for stuff in through mail back then). We watched in my school's library, Peter Jennings on ABC News. Most of us (kids and teachers) were too shocked to cry. I wound up going to Space Camp 6 months later, as planned. I still have my Space Camp wings, cap, certificate, and flight suit, as well as the bronze commemorative Challenger coin I bought there, "Reaching for the Stars."