This happened just after the second space shuttle blew up. I was in Wal-Mart, in the magazine isle, and one of the astronauts was looking at the magazines. I was curious about what was going on (since it did blow up over our town, and we saw pieces everywhere)... so I asked her if they had found very many parts. She calmly replied... "I am in astronaut recovery". So I apologized, and left the store very quickly.