A day late - Challenger was HOW long ago?

So, in catching up with my flist, there were two posts (possibly more? But they were the two I noted) regarding the Challenge disaster. Which was 30 years ago (because I'm old). This caused a jaunt down memory lane--I tried to see if I'd posted about it before in January and it doesn't appear that I have.

To that end, I'm going to half-repeat myself from my comment in wiliqueen's post and expand and elaborate and babble. Because why not.
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