The Challenger Crew: 73 Seconds From Disaster
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Source/Further reading:
NASA, remembering Challenger and her crew: www.nasa.gov/feature/35-years...
Official website maintained by families of the crew: www.challenger.org/who-we-are...
Biography, the Challenger crew: www.biography.com/news/challe...
History, the Challenger Disaster: www.history.com/topics/1980s/...
Ronald McNair bio: www.kent.edu/mcnair/life-rona...
NPR, memories of McNair: www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133275...
Onizuka Memorial bio: onizukamemorial.org/biography
Resnik bio: www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us...
Memories of Resnik: www.challenger.org/2016/01/27...
Scobee obituary: www.nytimes.com/1986/02/11/us...
Mike Smith obituary: www.nytimes.com/1986/02/11/us...
Gregory Jarvis obituary: www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/us...
McAuliffe obituary: www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/us...
Article on McAuliffe, published just before disaster: www.nytimes.com/1986/01/05/ma...
Popular Mechanics, an oral history of the Challenger disaster: www.popularmechanics.com/spac...
PDF on the Legacy of the 35 New Guys: houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp...
Simon did a better job in 20 minutes of giving equal respect to all 7 than the media did in 20 years.
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I wish I was important enough for Simon to read my story I know it's a script that's prepared that he reads but he does it with that British Flair that's truly amazing
@@daffyduck1937 Hey, that just gives you something to strive for!! 😊 ...buuuuut don't end up on Casual Criminalist.
Ya'll don't miss an opportunity to sh*t on the media. Simon did a great job, but there have been countless dignified and wonderful pieces honoring these people.
@@ladycheyne5607 - Thank you. The efforts , especially over the last few years to make the media some kind of enemy because it doesn’t fit your narrative or beliefs has gotten ridiculous
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"
- Isaac Asimov
I spoke with Isaac Asimov on New Years Eve, 1979. I called him at midnight from my party. As the small crowd cheered, I told him we were huge fans and wanted to wish him a great 1980. He was really flattered and we spoke for several minutes.
Great quote. Thanks for sharing.
@Big PApa don't believe everything you read on the internet -Abraham Lincoln probably not
My grandfather was friends with Ellison Onizuka, and we used to go to their family's store when I was a kid. Thank you for telling his story with such compassion and empathy. We lost my grandfather about 5 months after Challenger, so the two incidents are linked in my mind.
Did he have a twin or just a brother?
I got to hold Ellison Onizuka’s, “Silver Snoopy.” He gifted it to my American history teacher. On the year anniversary of the Challenger disaster we had a moment of silence in class. She passed the sliver Snoopy around the class so we can look at it. Thank you, Mrs. Lambert.
Didnt know this award was a thing. Thanks for informing me👍🏾.
This was so touching, legit brought tears to my eyes. I remember coming home for lunch from Kindergarten and watching the launch and tragedy with my parents. I remember going back to school and my teacher, Ms. Mitchell, being inconsolable. She was sent home and our principal watched our class for the rest of the day
I'm 41 now and that memory is just as fresh as the day it happened. Rest in peace Challenger Crew.
Wonderful Job, Simon and team.
Damn
I remember watching it live in our second grade classroom and my teacher trying to hurry up and shut off the TV
@@heatherordonez1490 I was also in 2nd grade, but did not watch it on TV.
@@heatherordonez1490 same. It's the first news event I can remember and one that won't be forgotten.
I was in first grade when this happened and never forgot about it.
I can’t imagine how horrific it would have been for the staff and pupils of Christa McAuliffe’s school to witness the explosion; knowing that their teacher and friend was gone
Her parents were there too. Very 😔 even 35 years later.
She was involved in a nationwide program of schools. I spent all of 5th grade meeting her through letters and videos with her class.
@@Godzillafan1980 Idk if you're being serious, but no one's gonna take you seriously if you go around talking about "I'm not human, I'm an alien"
@@Godzillafan1980 pathetic bait.
So disrespectful after a video that was so respectful and heartfelt
I appreciated knowing so much more about their personal lives. This tragedy continues to resonate all these years later.
I’m ashamed to admit that, though this tragedy rocked my family as well as myself when I was just 7 years old, I never knew the astronaut’s backgrounds. I remember coming home from school (we didn’t get to watch it in class) and being sat down and told that the Challenger had exploded and everyone was gone. I cried for hours. My brother and I had both loved the Space Shuttle program and had been thrilled to get to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise land at our local Air Force base.
This was absolutely the best documentary I’ve seen on the Challenger. Can you do the same for the Columbia? Thank you for bringing their lives rather than their deaths into focus. As sad as the tragedy was, we shouldn’t only remember them by that. They had lives and families that mourned them long after they left the news. Thank you for this.
Yes, please please please do Columbia.
As a kid growing up in the 80s, i still remember when they put the TV in the library of my school and a few of use kids watched (mostly the geeky ones), and the denial we all felt after seeing what happened.
Thank you for his since I didn’t know the lives of those pioneers who, in their own way, paved the way for other people of color and women to go into space.
I too remember watching the Challenger event unfold in my school library, which happened to be the day before my birthday...
“Before can make a dream come true you must first have one”
Ronald Mcnair
“Your vision is not limited by what your eyes can see. But by what your mind can imagine”
Ellison Onizuka
“Study what interest you. Do all can and don’t be afraid to expand into new fields.”
Judith Resnik
“I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries”
Christa Mcauliffe
Unfortunately there aren’t any quotes from Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith and Gregory Jarvis as they didn’t say much backed then so it unfortunate that there aren’t any quotes from them.
@@ethanramos4441 Thank you for those you did provide, and for your efforts to find quotes from the others. Much respect...
@@redcrabsc1149 Your welcome
The library renamed in his honour. Perfect. 👌🏼
This video was so well done. Really emotional, such a tragedy.
Besides the library, but US HWY 52, the main highway that runs through Lake City, SC, is also named in his honor as the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Jr. Highway.
I'm writing this with tears streaming down my face. This was superb, Simon. I watched the Challenger launch from my 11th grade classroom in South Carolina. After the explosion, there was stunned silence, then lots of tears. That day is seared into my memory. You did an excellent job telling their stories and honoring their memories. This is officially one of my favorite Biographics episodes. 💜
I remember this day so well. I was 9 years old. I was home from school that morning, as snowfall the night before caused a school cancelation. I was on the telephone in my parent's bedroom talking with a neighborhood friend about sledding later that morning. He suddenly paused & said, "the Shuttle just blew up!!!". I said, "no way, you're lying..." Two seconds later, my dad walked in & said, "come see this..." i was... horrifed & saddened. My mom, dad & I sat watching the TV all day. Our reactions were probably the same as millions that day. Regardless of age or race or any of those other arbitrary (and ultimately silly) factors. We were all the same in that moment.
Same when the edgy kid in our class said the Twin Towers were destroyed. I thought that was just him being edgy but it was true.
I vividly remember watching the Challenger disaster. My entire elementary school was gathered to watch. The moment we realized that we were watching a disaster, the tv was turned off and everyone was hustled back to our classes and our teachers did their best to explain what we just witnessed and did their best to keep us all calm. Excellent video Simon! 😊
As a 6th grader at the time ... I still tear up remembering watching this. And how, after a few moments, one of the other students just stood up and turned off the TV .... and nothing but silence for the rest of the day. Thanks for this video, Simon. Thank you.
Same. Bit younger, but still traumatized.
A diverse bunch of people who converged on the path to the stars, but in the end, they became martyrs of hope and drive. Thank you, Simon.
They became star dust once again
They all overcame the slight hiccup of the Challenger explosion and had long, successful careers. You can look them up. It's not difficult.
Martyrs to the shortsighted decision-making of NASA administration. They should never have launched in those conditions
@@carlrs15 You're living in a fictive reality created by the government; the crew were not aboard the craft, they went on to have long careers in their chosen fields, often barely changing their names.
@@chimpinabowtie6913 Facts? Links?
You're a troll.
I'm all for internet trolling for fun but you're so lazy you couldn't even list reasons for your belief.
They died.
I don't agree with NASA's heavy handed government control and playing thing's up for the media.. this ship should have never launched but it did and they died. Move along.
I remember Challenger. It was a moment in my generation's life to be certain, and one that convinced a lot of people to look to space, despite the sacrifices and losses. Thank you, Simon. Lovely and respectful video.
I’ve recently become fascinated by this event after watching the Netflix documentary. So sad, I can only imagine how shocking it would have been with how many people were watching it on live TV, and how much optimism there was leading up to it. Reminds me of the cloud of depression everyone had after 9/11. Nice to see a video focusing on all the victims’ lives and their journeys to nasa
I know that a lot of us were really thinking that there was little danger, that soon we would be zooming around as routine, because the most brilliant minds in the world worked on the the project and then to find out that such a stupid thing brought it to destruction, something fixable that was IGNORED and played down, that never needed to happen, was too horrible...hubris killed the crew...
I was 5 and still vividly remember watching it at my granny’s house while my parents were at work. Sadly one of my earliest memories as a kid.
This was a beautiful one,
You can't be gone
If forever you are remembered.
I love this so much!
It's crazy, my dad gave Rob McNair a ride and was able to talk to him about everything especially their shared love for playing saxophone. He was probably one of the last few people who spoke to him before the accident.
I remember watching this in elementary school. I was totally shocked at the explosion. This was the first flight to have a teacher in the astronaut program, and I could feel the pride of all of teachers in my school talking about the flight for almost a week before it happened. I imagine that almost all of the classes in the United States had a similar experience.
@@iknowyouknowiknow7389 I'm not going to fight with your views. You are entitled to believe whatever you want. Enjoy fighting with others. I refuse.
@BidenWorstPresident XX And that story is still better than the previous presidency.
@@teresapyeatt3698 He's just trolling and shitposting through the comments.
I remember it too. It was 5th grade for me.
None so blind as those who do not wish to see...
I never understood the disproportionate focus - even now - on McAuliffe, as if the lives of the rest of the crew were somehow less valuable. Irrespective of how she got there, another 6 people died - they should ALL be spoken of.
Funny enough, I had not known until I watched this video that there was actually ANOTHER civilian. Until now I thought that was why she got all the attention.
It was because her class and 5th graders across America had been learning about it all year through her eyes. I was one of those kids.
@@davidcastillo868 Jarvis doesn't really get mentioned because he had been a captain in the USAF so he did have prior training but yeah, at this time he was technically a civilian.
It's because interest in the space shuttle program was very low at this point. McAuliffe's inclusion reignited interest and school children around the country were watching because of her. She became a celebrity and did talk show appearances like the Tonight Show. That's why there has always been a disproportionate focus on her.
@@FrankieBlueEyes also... there was a school program set up for 5th graders with her class. She was a 5th grade teacher. We learned about her training, her goals and she was going to TEACH FROM SPACE!. I was sooo jazzed. They were going to record it and play it for all the classes. Some stuff we saw live. Just opened the eyes of kids to space. I think it's why NASA had a gap in interest in space. Seeing that live... in school. The excitement. The cheers. The screams. The shock. The quiet. The cries of girls and boys... I don't understand? Are they OK? What happened? How do they get home?.... listening to this brought all that back. Crystal clear.
Kudos for honoring those seven heroes together.
I was a sailor in Winter Harbor, Maine watching the Challenger launch on TV. I was shocked to see what unfolded after the first explosion of the craft.
I never realized that I needed this, but I guess I did. My life was shaped, in part, by watching the Challenger explosion on TV as a child.
Like so many others I was a young boy into star wars and all the sci-fi series and films the 80s could throw at us. I remember the sadness I felt seeing the footage and still get a lump in my throat when it's shown. So I commend the biographic team for showing the human side of the tragedy. Well done possible your best yet.
I wasn't born when Challenger happened, but I know my dad watched the launch from the seat of his pulled over corvette. He doesn't talk about it much, mostly because it did upset him a lot, but he does still watch rockets go up whenever there's a launch at the Cape.
Incredibly well done Simon. You most certainly did their memories and legacies proud. Bravo
I'll never forget this. I was in 9th grade we were in the library watching the lift off. All of us so excited to see a teacher in space. I can't believe it's been 35 yrs ago😪
Every setback takes us closer to touching the face of God Ronald Reagan 1986.
I still remember watching the disaster on TV as a kid. A horrific memory that has never left. But aside from McAulliffe being a teacher I'd never really learned about these 7 heroes, shame on me... but the nature of this video was fantastic and wonderful getting to know the people and hearing how amazing they all were. ❤
This might be my favorite video you guys have ever released (and I've watched a ton of them). Thank you for focusing on the people of The Challenger mission, really well done!
"You killed a black astronaut Cyril, that's like killing a unicorn". - Sterling Archer. RIP to all of these men and women.
1:10 - Chapter 1 - Dreaming of the stars
4:40 - Chapter 2 - Different paths
8:00 - Chapter 3 - The new guys
11:50 - Chapter 4 - The other guys
15:20 - Chapter 5 - Seatmates
19:35 - Chapter 6 - Aftermath
I remember sitting in a classroom that was wall to wall with middle schoolers, glued to the tv. The gasps and cries, mine included, were horrific. I had hoped to never be witness to anything like that again. That lasted until Tuesday, September 11, 2001. But that's a whole other issue.
What happened September 11th??
@@dickmonkey-king1271 9/11
Might be the best Biographics video yet! Great work by the whole team and touching delivery by Simon! May these 7 crew members rest in peace ☝️
For as long as I live, that moment will remain a memory all too vivid. I saw it unfold, and thought it was a special effect of what could go wrong, not realizing it was actual footage of the launch. My 2yr old son and I watched it happen and he saw me cry for the first time in his life.
I was 5 and at home with my dad. We watched it go up with so much enthusiasm. Once it was up my dad stepped outside to get the mail. I was alone as I watched it explode. In shock I ran outside to share the news and my dad struggled to believe me. How could it be gone?!? I can still remember his shocked and disbelieving face all these years later.
Rest In Peace to the crew
Ellison Onizuka has the honour of having one of the shuttle craft on the USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, as featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation named after him. It was decided in 1987 that the Challenger crew should somehow be commemorated by the producers of the show, so Onizuka’s name was chosen. Greg Chaffee also has a shuttle craft named after him too on the show. In later years, the Galaxy class, USS Challenger, captained by Geordi LaForge, would appear on Voyager.
I was only 7 years old when the Challenger accident happened, but I've remembered it. I have watched countless of documentaries on the topic, but none have gone in so much depth about the astronauts themselves. I think this one paid great respect to them and gave me a real insight into the _persons_ of STS-51L, not just the _crew_ .
I think we now need follow-ups with the Apollo 1 and Columbia STS-107 crews.
Indeed. There is a lot known about the crew of Apollo 1 due to the celebrity status astronauts had at the time, but who really knows a lot about the crew of the Columbia? A similar focus on them would not go amiss.
I wasn't even a year old when this happened, but ended up learning about it over the years, and even today it is saddening that it happened, all because of some O-rings, truly awful... :(
if only it wasn't fucking 35F that day they wouldn't be dead now 😢
I wasn't even alive when the Challenger tragedy happened, but the footage is still seared into my brain. Thank you for celebrating the lives of these brave people. Future generations will remember them.
Well done, Simon!
I always liked the dedication to the Challenger astronauts at the beginning of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. They will be remembered.
I remember watching this happen on television. There was a moment of stunned silence, then utter horror as we all gasped at what we were seeing.
We watched it live in class in a Miami suburb when I was 9. We could feel and hear everything that happened. I remember all of our jaws dropped and the teacher started crying and ran to cut the TV off. I will never forget that day. That memory is seared right next to 9/11 when I walked onto the catwalk going to class to find what seemed like hundreds huddled around the TV and then the second tower was hit.
I was a junior in high school when this tragedy happened. We were watching the live footage in my American Government class. I still remember first the cheers at the successful lift off, then the silence following the explosion. Our teacher had a look of utter disbelief on his face as we all just stared at the TV. To say that event had a profound impact on our generation would be an understatement. All of us in the class that day were children born during the height of the Vietnam War and the social and government upheavals following it. The brave crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger gave us true heroes to aspire to live like. Many of my classmates went on to become teachers themselves, inspired by Christy. Their memories shall live on thanks to shows/videos like this. Thanks Simon! 🇺🇸🚀
A couple of things have always made me furious about Challenger: 1. This tragedy was EASILY preventable, and never would have happened if NASA had listened to the engineers about the rubber gasket that caused the whole thing. 2. Americans were SO arrogant about the space program that they believed it "couldn't fail". They thought that because they had not had a disaster in space UP TO NOW, they would go on that way forever. In reality, the longer they went without an accident, the MORE LIKELY (by the law of averages) it was that they WOULD have one. They should have been able to do better than this, as both conditions were just so obvious and preventable. School kids watched their beloved teacher incinerated and die a horrible death (horrifically prolonged - they fell for several minutes before impact with the water) because NASA dumbly, stupidly, obtusely, arrogantly assumed the flight COULD NOT FAIL.
I feel the same really, and this could easily be attributed to the whole Cold War attitude of showing off to the “Soviet peasants”, or maybe it can simply be blamed on the stupidity of NASA’s leadership (anyway nowadays NASA’s slowly becoming redundant as SpaceX and other private ventures advance into the Space Race).
However incidents like these happen to teach us a lesson : to never take our life for granted and always make our best to turn this world into a better place for everyone.
Although watching America falling so bad in the last 35 years makes me wonder if americans really learned anything at all…
To think both guys in charge of making the decision to call it off kept working for NASA for another 20-30 years. No way anyone in the room with them couldn't have felt any tense
Most Americans were arrogant about the space program?
If you had been paying attention, this Teacher in Space program had the specific intent to revitalize the country's interest in space exploration/science, more specifically, students....
Sounds like we were disinterested at best....
My friends father worked for NASA during the challenger era. He told us gambling one night that there wasn't just silence after the explosion. He told you could hear the screams from the teacher and crew. I regret to share this information but ever since I've heard it, I've wondered if he was being honest.
He was. Some survived until impact
There is also memorial to the Challenger crew at Arlington National Cemetery, which I visited when I was in middle school.
You did a danm good job on this one guys. This is the right way to do it.
I remember watching this live. It was just unfathomable. I don’t know how long I just stared at the TV, crying. Thank you for sharing the lives of these incredible people.
No one died in the Challenger explosion, you can look them all up, they all had long successful careers after the 'incident'.
New subscriber- so well done. The importance of remembering the lives of the faces behind the tragedy can't be overemphasized. Thank you, Simon.
Two facts about it:
1. Christa Mc Auliffe wasnt the only person for the "teacher in space programme" second was Barbara Morgan. Due to the disaster, the teacher programm was cancelled. It was in the late 90s NASA reopend the programm. So it happend that on August, 8th 2007 Barbara Morgan went into space. 21 years and 7 month after Challanger exploded. Making her the longest serving astronaut, with 22 years between first training and first space flight.
2. Today we know that the O-Ring inside the rocket failed, because of the low temperature. But it was one of the greatest scientist who made it public. Richard Feynman. Neither, NASA commision or rocket contructor (exacpt the two engineers) wanted to admid a failiur of the O-Ring. So Feynman ordered a glass of icewater, during a public hearing and put a piece of the O-Ring inside it. He started to ask the boss of the rocket company if he knows what an O-Ring has to do. When the Man said "to expand when getting warmer" Feynman pulled the O-Ring out of his water and it kept its frozen shape. ...No more words where needed.
Sadly NASA and Rocket company agreed on a "many reasons" report. So Feynman made them, to print his conclusion seperatly, telling reporters
"....nature cannot be fooled" He died a year later, his last words "Im glad, i die only once. This is boring"
You are too young to remember this, Simon. I am 58 years old. I watched Reagen get shot and Anwar Saddat get assisinated. I watched OJ get chased and saw John Hinkley kill John Lennon. I watched man land on the moon, and I watched the Challenger disaster live.
Although I am "only" 58 years old, I have seen things that I would never wish on anyone.
Ummmmm . . . John Hinckley is the guy who attempted to assassinate Reagan. Mark Chapman assassinated John Lennon.
@@kellyalvarado6533 I often get my assassins mixed up.😉
A wonderfully touching and heartfelt tribute, well done to yourself and the rest of the team.
Thank you Simon, for making this tribute to these 7 astronauts, who were so longing to fulfil their dreams.
Some years after this disaster, a documentary on Discovery Channel, explained what happened te day before. The painfull story was told by one of the chief-engineers of Morton-Thiokol, the company wich made the boosters. This man, was THE one, who warned the NASA time and time again, even dosens of time, to NOT launch the shuttle.
He felt so committed to make everyone aware of the coming disaster, that he almost cried.
But, to no avail. The NASA executive's were unrelenting.
While telling this, this chief-engineer broke out in tears in front of the camera.
Even after so many years, he still was feeling the pain and frustration of not being listened to.
I broke out in tears to....
Space exploration is a worthy endeavor for the human race to follow. It takes a brave soul to venture into the dark void i hope we don’t forget the spirit and names of those who ventured first.
Fair Play to you. The people of the major event's are just that. People. and deserve to be remembered. And we should all be reminded regularly, that it is ordinary people that change the world every minute of every day.....Respect.....
Thank you for such a beautiful and heartfelt tribute. They were all such amazing people and deserve to be remembered as such.
This was incredibly touching. One of the best videos I’ve watched on UA-cam in quite a while.
I swear, the fact that they might have been alive before they hit the water haunts me often.
This is so sad! Thanks for making a video on this!
Simon, I’ve watched loads of Challenger docs. This one made my sternum ache. Thanks so much
I remember where I was and what I was doing. I was in the 8th grade and me and a few guys were coming from church (catholic school and i was an altar boy). We were coming up the back stairs back to class and a close friend of mine (who also died later in life) told us the shuttle blew up. Being young we laughed a little. I thought it blew up but no one was killed, I was wrong. Same thing happened back in Queens years later when I was at work and my wife called me and told me a plane hit one of the Towers. I thought it was a Cessna... Too much death and destruction. RIH.
Damn, first Biographics in a while that made me cry. Really excellent script & presentation, guys. Thank you. 💙
That was so wonderfully put together. Fantastic job.
I can still remember sitting in my 2nd grade class watching the launch live. Our teacher was so excited about it. We had spent so much time studying about space and this was going to be the payoff. I'll never forget watching my teacher stumble through trying to explain what we just saw. She was shocked, as were we.
I have loved learning about the stars and the amazing astronauts since that day.
Thank you so much for this episode. Seeing this happen on live TV had a major impact on my life. Learning about their lives is so meaningful and helpful.
Thank you for this video, Simon. This is a remarkable and one of your best.
Very well done. I have watched tons of docs on this but it is through you that I really got to know these amazing individuals. I actually teared up at the end. Thank you for telling their story Simon.
I was in college in Milwaukee, stopping at the corner store for the Chicago paper and a Diet Coke on my way back to my dorm when I finally started paying attention to the radio station being broadcast in the store. I had heard it when I came in, dismissed it as “just another shuttle launch,” and tuned it out. I heard something that caught my ear and realized, “Wait-it BLEW UP?!?!” I rushed back to my room and turned on my little tv and was glued to the screen.
Beautiful piece, thank you to the entire crew for putting it together.
That launch was the only one I had ever watched.
This was such an incredible video. Amazing work.
Bravo Simon! Beautifully done. You gave these ppl the respect they deserve and an opportunity for their stories to be heard. I still remember watching this occur on TV while in school, second grade. Not since then have I heard such an amazing tribute to these fallen astronauts.
Like many others across the US, I too was one of the many elementary school kids that saw this live on tv. Truly an unforgettable event.
Best one yet. You did this with a genuine passion.
Beautiful work Simon and crew. You drew a tear.
I really appreciated this video, thanks Simon and co. 🍻
Each of your channels are wonderful, Simon, but this channel is by far my second favourite (after Brain Blaze).
I’m having a pint at the pub, all dewy eyed after the proper honourific you gave these seven.
Keep it up, Fact Boy.
This was a great great tribute Simon thank you!
Thank you Simon, you did a wonderful job. I can tell you exactly what I was doing when this happen. I was getting my kids ready for school. Devastating thank you for all your hard work and your teams for theirs
This is a wonderful video about a horrible incident. I really hope the relatives of these people stumble across this. It's respectful to focus so much on the incredible lives of the people, rather than their death, something so insignificant to who they were as people.
Awesome video. So very glad the focus was on the brave souls who lost their lives that day, which I remember like it was yesterday, instead of on the tragedy itself. Thank you!
This was such an amazing video, thank you!
This made me cry... I was in 1st grade and my teacher had gotten permission to let is watch this live in our small lunchroom... I remember the quiet shock and then my teacher's crying... I didn't really understand until later what we'd all witnessed. You did a remarkable job with this one.
This was really beautiful. Thank you Simon.
Such a touching video. Thank you Simon - well done.
Thank you Simon & team. Sensitively and thoughfully produced and presented. God bless the Challenger crew.
I was watching this launch live with my class as a 9 year old. We were really emotionally invested because one of our teachers had made it to the final selections. It is hard to describe that morning, but I will never forget the way the air was sucked out of the room when it happened. For all the myriad programs made in the intervening years, none have ever focused on the most important story. Thank you for doing that here.
This is probably the best video you’ve ever made Simon. Brilliant job, mate.
I’ve watched many videos on the Challenger. Thank you for the personal stories in this. This is what is so often missed. Tasteful and beautiful. Thank you.
Absolutely brilliant video Simon. The human side is often lost in such disaster videos. You captured the both the extraordinary wonder that is humanity and fragility of life in equal balance.
Woah okay, the end had me in shivers and goosebumps. I wasn’t ready for that. Great work Simon and team!
This was an excellent video and the conclusion was so somber and human considering how detached videos on this kind of subject can be.
Think this may be your best video.
Excellently structured and told.
Brilliant
I was just watching a ton challenger videos lastnight at 2 am and now Simon makes a video about it. Crazy.
Wow. This was so beautifully done. Thank you, Team Biographics, for such an intimate look into their lives.
I was home from college that morning watching it live. I was standing in front of a tiny tv. When it blew up I put my finger on the screen and thought I cannot be seeing what I think I'm seeing. I am from SC and live near Lake City where Ron McNair hailed from. Times have changed a lot but Lake City is still quite small. Thank you so, so much for this deep dive into the crew members.
Excellent tribute at the end there and such a refreshing change for a documentary on Challenger to focus on the people's lives rather than what went wrong with the technology.
Thank you for this episode. It was moving, and special.
Thank you for spotlighting their lives. So touching.