It is kind of odd how things go.
I found out about Challenger in a department store in another state while trying to get baby furniture for my first born. Found all the people in the store in the television section were they pile up a hundred or so units. Everyone standing in front of the pile watching a hundred Challengers explode.
Last weekend was in a nearby city in the same state. Large screen television in hotel lobby shows text crawl of lost contact and then the pictures. Everyone standing in front watching Columbia, including my now 17 year old daughter.
It felt pretty much the same.