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“Challenger”
In early 1986, shortly following a crisis of my own, the nation watched as the space shuttle Challenger exploded after launch. I heard the news as a rumor in the change of classes in sophomore year, with an announcement over the PA in world history class that morning. Astronomy and space exploration had been my “first love”; the loss of the space shuttle was particularly significant to me. The very next day I started to draw a picture of the accident. The picture in Time Magazine aided the work, however my imagination had already attempted to interpret what was flying out of the fireball. My friend believed the side rockets had emerged not at the ends of the two pillars of smoke, but the side, so that error is reflected in the drawing. For the remainder of sophomore year the drawing remained partially complete, only the fireball and the indigo of the sky near the fireball sufficient to contain the most exciting part of the drawing. I didn’t have the gusto to sketch “the boring part” and waste a whole pencil on all that blue. I finished the drawing in the summer. Produced 20 June 1986 = Tayya 3461, 10th grade, three dozen fourth phase (Ralys-Ayuleyal Xrga).
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