A friend of mine worked at KSC on the shuttle. He was one of those who processed the SRBs after they returned from the water, bashing them round again, cleaning them out, putting new propellant in the segments, rejoining the segments and readying them for flight.
I stood in my business' parking lot and watched the flight naked eye and wondered about the three separate plumes which clearly indicated solid rocket boosters had detached from the main launch vehicle. It was 40 miles away so no explosions were heard.
I'll never forget as he sat beside me watching a replay of the explosion carefully a couple of times before standing up, pointing at the TV set and shouting "IT WASN'T OUR SRBs! IT WASN'T OUR SRB's!"
Oops......
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