Do you remember where you were on this date in 1986?

[Jimmypoo]

I had been there 3-4 weeks prior for the first time 2 shuttles were on the pad simultaneously.

I don't recall which was to launch... but we got to 30 seconds and we were scrubbed. It was just as
cold a day, and it had an eerie, surreal feeling about it.

Had the same conditions and possibilities (Dec 29, 1985 was cold, just like Jan 86), & I'm glad I missed that launch.

I've been there for a dozen, and never saw one on site. Have seen many living in FL, just not on KSC
property. Glad I was still at Purdue on Jan 28. Made it just a little less affective, but not much.

And with Purdue having been Astronaut-King University until 2002, first and last man on moon as grads,
the entire Apollo Mgmt hierarchy built buy a Purdue professor (Org Comm), and Grissom among the
other grads besides Neil & Cernan, we felt it really hard that day, and for weeks to follow.

More astronauts graduated Purdue than all other universities combined until ~2002, when Air Force/Naval
Academy finally took top spot. They took 45 years to do so... quite the legacy at my alma mater.