My father had always been fascinated by the space program. The day of the Challenger launch was the day of my mother’s funeral and we were all in the living room, dressed up for the service and Dad wanted a pleasant distraction. He turned on the tv and we watched the live coverage, of course expecting it to be exciting and hope-filled. Like everyone else, we were absolutely horrified by the tragedy that happened before our eyes. Poor Dad was especially devastated. We shut off the tv and headed to the church in a daze. Mum’s funeral and the Challenger disaster will always be linked for our family.
It's all random, sometimes things collide unexpectedly and people try to make sense of it. The funny thing is that, the more we try the more we make it worse. ✌️
The O rings were not overly sensitive or flawed. No more than your car is flawed that it can’t run at the top of Mt Everest. Every piece of equipment has an operating range. The O rings had a designed operating range that was well known and documented. The conditions were outside of that range on the day of launch. Engineers at Morton Thiokol tried to raise the issue and were ignored.
Correct. It was the design of the field joint itself (which also experienced exhaust gas blow-by and impingement several times during warm weather launches) that was flawed.
@@BradH2024 I would argue even the field joint wasn’t flawed. It worked when ran in the conditions they were told to design for it to operate. The fault is squarely on NASA for ignoring that they were choosing to operate outside of the specifications THEY gave to the suppliers. Even after it was pointed out to them.
I know I'll catch hell for saying this, but I think it happened simply because It was politically advantageous for the then current administration! Reagan's health began rapidly deteriorating in the months just after the "accident," and understandably so.
Morton Thiokol wasn’t just ignored, they were outright berated for daring to raise this crucial safety issue the night before launch. As if it was an audacity to try and keep the astronauts safe.
Yeah..NOT left "speechless" .. That was let out long ago. I'm sure there was more but it's probably pretty gruesome and they want to keep it from the public .
I clicked on the video already knowing those were the last words which are chilling because it really makes you wonder what he saw or realized, I also can’t stop thinking about what the teacher was feeling or at what point did she realize they are were in trouble man that had to been scary for her smh!
My dad was a teacher and applied for the mission. I watched the Challenger go down as a 1st grader at school. I'm happy he didn't mention his application until I was old enough to understand it.
I watched the Challenger launch from my job at a Hospital in Ft.Myers Florida. A bunch of Techs, nurses, and staff went outside of the building for a perfect launch view. I remember it being quiet cold that morning also. We immediately knew something was wrong when the boosters separated and went opposite directions, after a big while smoke cloud. I will never forget that day. RIP Challenger Crew. Gone but not forgotten
I was a teacher in Nova Scotia, Canada, as the crew prepared for the trip of a life time. For Christa McAuliffe it was to be the class trip of a lifetime. Our staff sent her a postcard of well-wishes.....,I hope she received it....hope it made her smile. Rest in Eternal Peace...
Sharon ( Christa) McAuliffe- The School Teacher- Professor at Syracuse Law They have her picture There was NO one on board when the Space Shuttle Challenger Exploded NASA LIED !
Michael J. Smith- Professor at the University of Wisconsin University has his picture Judith ( Judy) Resnik- Professor at Yale Law They have her picture Judith won an award in 2008 Way to go Judith ! Frances Richard Scobee- CEO of Cows in Trees Limited Northern Illinois University They have his picture Ronald McNair claims to be his own twin brother Carl McNair Ellison Onizuka claims to be his own twin brother Claude Onizuka
Sharon ( Christa) McAuliffe- The School Teacher Professor at the University of Syracuse college of Law They have her picture ! Did you look any of this up ?
Only the two pilots were conscious as likely Judith Resnick had activated their air pack, from the back of their seats. She was the one who could access it. The others including her, all passed out, on the way down. The pilots were aware and they went out like the good troopers, these guys are. The moment they hit the water, everyone was instantly dead. I read a special edition in the Houston Chronicle that had a recording of what went on, in the cockpit They published it and I wish I had kept that paper.
I remember the Apollo 1 accident in 67; Virgil "Gus" Grissom was my favorite astronaut. What a terrible way to die. God bless all their families, may their memories be a blessing.
I watched it live on TV. The next day, my sister, who was one of the many, many candidates considered was interviewed on local news. It didn't occur to me until that moment that I potentially could have lost my sister.
RIP Dick Scobee (1939-1986) Michael J. Smith (1945-1986) Ronald McNair (1950-1986) Ellison Onizuka (1946-1986) Judith Resnik (1949-1986) Gregory Jarvis (1944-1986) and Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986)
I was shopping with my BFF on the day of the disaster. We lived in Lakeland, Florida., roughly 110 miles from Cape Canaveral. We’d ALWAYS had a “good long-distance “aerial”/“visual” view of launches from the Base. We could CLEARLY SEE every rocket and “Shuttle” with the naked-eye. “Launch Viewings” and “Viewing Parties” were as common as “Hurricane Parties”. But they were VASTLY becoming “boring”. THIS Launch however, was a “Special” one. Thus, there we were…standing amongst a crowd of customers and employees in the “Electronics Section” of a Major Retail Store watching, as per usual, EVERY SINGLE TELEVISION “tuned-in” to the “Historic” launch. After “counting-down”, “out-loud” with everyone else, my BFF and I ran outside to watch it “live”, as it would quickly “enter into our viewpoint”. We joined the “outside crowd” and SAW the explosion happen in REAL TIME!! (Neither my BFF, NOR ANYONE ELSE “WITH US” realized “what had happened”!!) I SCREAMED (and I am NOT a “screamer”) “OH MY GOD IT BLEW UP”!!, in a SINGLE “RUN-ON” SENTENCE, as I turned and RUSHED BACK to the “Electronics Section”, trailed by my BFF AND the ENTIRE OUTSIDE CROWD!! There, we were met with an “eerie”, STUNNED SILENCE from the ENTIRE STORE. (The Store Manager had even ordered the incessantly-piped, “in-store, ‘music and advertising’ tape reel” to be TURNED OFF.) “Some” were vocally sobbing; “some” muttered Prayer’s for the Crew and their families; “some” silently cried so as “not to frighten their children”; “some” covered their mouths and/or faces in horror…Men and male teenagers alike removed their hats “In Honor” with “some”, respectfully “Saluting”, in absentia. We ALL STOOD…too SHOCKED and HORRIFIED to say a word, before slowly retreating from the Electronics Section, as all but a few, small televisions were “left on” with the volume “SUBSTANTIALLY lowered” to follow the “aftermath coverage” from the Cape….. No…I’ll NEVER forget “THAT DAY”…😔 RIP, ✌🏻❤️👊🏻 Peace, Love, and Respect…..
I remember being a 15 year old teenager when this happened. I was home sick and watched it on TV. I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cereal watching the launch. When the Challenger exploded, I sat there frozen in disbelief with my spoon up to my face as to what exactly just happened. "Did the space shuttle really just blow up?" I then called my mother to the living room telling her, "Mom, come to the living room! The space shuttle just blew up!"
I will always remember the challenger..I was watching it live and saw the pieces going off in different directions, and the smoke trails...I knew right then that it had exploded..so sad..I can still see it and I cried for the 7 brave people who were so happy before this..
I was three months pregnant at the time i watching this tragidy unfold,before my very eyes as i just broke down crying so hard for the families,who lost their loved ones and that evening i started bleeding and lost my baby that night.I then cried for three days after. I will never forget that day and always wonder what my baby would have been and what my baby would have become if this baby would have lived.❤😢💔R.I.P. to my baby and to the beautiful souls lost on the Challenget that very sad day.💔😥🙏
Dead rate amongst astronauts ? somewhere around 25%. One out of four may not survive the program. Some died in training like Gus Grissom and his team and others....well, may have died in a regular flight, or something related to it. Seems very high. The people who fly "wing suits" have also that sort of percentage to die. They hit bridges , or mountains, while they navigate their "suits"...... Eventually these percentages get better as people get more experienced. It is still considered high risk !
They found other failures of those o rings captured during other shuttle launches. They knew there were issues and ignored them until too late. Not only did they redesign the o rings, but NASA got redesigned by people getting fired or asked to stand down. It won't bring back those poor people, but future lives were saved. RIP to the crew. I'll never forget what happened.
I was in 1st grade. I remember watching it in the gym with the whole school. I remember there were 100 of us watching it all on ONE 25 INCH TV ON A ROLLING SHELF. I remember teachers crying. I also remember they sent us home around 10:30-11:00am.?
6th grade and we watched it on a tv rolled into the classroom, when it exploded we didn’t know what to think we just knew something didn’t go right and the teacher didn’t say much just turned the tv off and we went back to class!
I was in the 3rd grade and watched it live with my classmates. What's really odd is that my teacher at the time shared the same last name as the teacher on the spaceship 😮
NASA said " we have a major malfunction". That is what they said. The cabin ( capsule ) with the astronauts was intact. Has they rigged it with parachutes, like the Soyuz does, they would have been saved. They were always cutting corners.....keeping fingers crossed to make their dead lines.......Same thing with Columbia that got damaged during the launch, with a ( hard ) piece of foam that hit the left leading edge of the shuttle. They had no way to fix it , so they kept their fingers crossed. It failed during re-entry and the astronauts died. That was pretty much the end of the shuttle. After that, the ISS was using the Russian Soyuz to launch the people there and retrieve them. The US had a deal with them ; right now, without Elon Musk, how it would work out, since we are at war, on the Ukraine front, is just up in the air ??? Elon came in at the right time......
The O-rings didn't rupture, they shrunk, due to the cold, thus compromising the seal in the solid propellant booster. The escaping gases, extreme heat, and high pressure did the rest.
There's a book that addresses the O-ring problems in detail. I read it many years ago. If I remember correctly there were also internal problems with Morton-Thiokol.
I was getting ready to go out that morning, but I was waiting for my roommate to get home from his job at a donut shop. He always brougt home donuts and i wanted to take a few over to my girlfriends apartment across the courtyard. I looked out the window and saw him blast into his parking space, then saw him sprint out of his truck and head for the door. As soon as the door opened he came in with a look of horror on he face and said, "Turn on the TV, the space shuttle just blew up." Jeff and I, along with my girlfriend sat in the living room most of the day watching the coverage on CNN.
Just to clarify the calls to roll and throttle up are confirmation calls not intstructions, the entire launch is Automatic the final call "you are go at throttle up" means everything is good at the throttle up portion of the flight
@@elizabethchase6528 Well they were "Go" as the incident took place after and they had no real time telemetry to provide evidence of anything different before that. Review of camera footage after launch showed the Puff of black smoke at ignition and the flame burning through the strut. But at the time there was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary
We were supposed to watch this in 2nd grade. I remember my teacher walking in somber faced and telling my class the shuttle had blown up so I guess we were fortunate in that she was recording it because we were at recess. I remember sometimes early mornings they'd televise shuttle launches that I'd watch with my Dad.
I went to Kennedy Space Center and in July of this year and was surprised there was no memorial of this ill-fated flight! From PA to FL. I was extremely disappointed!
This isn't common knowledge but after the initial explosion he said "We're going down" and "hang on" and "get your oxygen on" there was also screaming and crying. They lasted about two minutes until impact. NASA has all this recorded.
Rubbish the vehicle broke up there would be no power to any recorder and telemetry to the vehicle was lost so nothing could have been transmitted from it. The only way people knew theyhad survived the break up was activation of personal oxy packs which could have not happened accidently
You can't find it now, or at least not easily, but I specifically remember that her young daughter had begged her not to go. As much as we like to think that they died instantly and didn't suffer, that's probably not true. This side of heaven, we won't know what their final thoughts were but I am guessing that she regretted not choosing her little daughter over the thrill of going into space.
I remember watching the launch live then in horror as the ship exploded. I'll never forget Reagan's speech, that part where he said, "...(they) waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." It made me cry then and does the same today all these years later. Rest in peace.😢
I haven't read or heard that anywhere. A sensor probably went off, but he wouldn't have known what was about to happen. But we do know that the were alive after the explosion. That must of been absolutely frightening. Same with Columbia when it it started to disintegrate. Both are heartbreaking. But as sadly, a tragedy has to happen first before you find a problem and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Unfortunately when it came to Columbia they had warning of what was to come. STS 27 had over 700 tiles damaged after take off. The only reason they didn’t burn up on entry was because of a thicker plate in the right place. There was also warnings about the rings on challenger that were also ignored that occurred on a discovery flight as well as a few others. I only just learned about the tile issue on STS 27 a week ago. I was shocked. There is a video on UA-cam where the commander Hoot Gibbson talks about the incident. He and his wife were in the same intake group as most of the crew of Challenger.
You are correct. - Both of the shuttle accidents were preventable. I went to a lecture conducted by Astronaut Chris Hadfield. He told the audience that he watched the Challenger launch over and over and over again. He - and several others - knew something wasn't quite right even as the crew continued their mission. By then, it was too late, of course. When you fly commercial, the Captain conducts a 'walk around' during every turnaround. - Unfortunately, the Columbia crew didn't have that procedure as an SOP at the time. On later missions, the shuttle pitched up and over outside the ISS, so the station crew - and NASA could inspect the spacecraft's condition. The crew utilised remote cameras as well.
Most experts believe that what Smith was reacting to was the sudden and complete loss of pressure in the External Tank LH2 tank (as the aft dome of the tank was burned through by the right SRB field joint leak, and then fell off) that he could see on one of the three CRT screens on the forward control panel between himself and Dick Scobee. As the Pilot (and rookie), it was Smith’s job (with some help from Judy Resnik, who was the Flight Engineer and seated directly behind and between Scobee and Smith, where she had a view of some of the system monitoring screens and gauges) to closely monitor the vehicle systems throughout the launch (Scobee did, too - but as Commander on his second mission, he got to look out the windows and enjoy the view (as did Resnik) - at least until the disaster began to unfold…) According to some, it’s also possible that Smith may have taken a glance out of a window - at just the right moment to see the the right SRB pivot, and its nose slam into and rupture the ET LOX tank.
I remember that day very well.I was sitting watching it live on TV all excited as it took off only to sit shell shocked as I seen it blow up.An explosion that should never have happened!RIP to the members of The Challenger 🙏
For some reason I always thought the last words of the challenger crew were uttered specifically by Richard Scobee when he replied to Mission Control, saying, "Roger...go at throttle up." 🤔
I was in school. It was live. The entire school was watching. Everyone was so excited. It was just awful because nobody really understood what was happening until they told us that it had exploded and the adults were scrambling to turn it off.
We watched it live and noticed a parachute just after the explosion, the feed then cut to the falling debris. In every video I've seen since, no place will you find that parachute footage! This is when VHS first became a new thing so my sister taped everything and she's kind of a pack rat so I'm sure as the day is long she still has that footage... Wonder What The Parachute Had!?!?🤔
Is'nt there a conspiracy theory that the teacher is still alive but she's been hiding and there is some woman out there that looks exactly like her but avoids when being questioned.
I think it is speculated to be a pilot parachute for the multipart parachute system on the nose of the twin SRB rockets. The rockets were designed to float back to the ground to be reusable. Not sure if NASA confirmed it.
I watched an interview with an astronaut who is also a doctor. He said he's certain they died when they hit the water. They might have been knocked unconscious, but only for maybe 30 seconds. It took over 2 minutes to hit the ocean 😢
Read the new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. This is one of the most avoidable tragedies in human history. What a senseless, terrible waste.
I remember I was home sick that day from elementary school. I think I was in the 4th or 5th grader. I watched it on t.v. When it took off, I was excited, then stun when it exploded on t.v. What a sad day.
None of these 7 had the backbone to refuse to go on the mission until they were 100% assured and proven that all was well? Because there was a timeline and a rush a choice was made to commit murder, but no one seems to say that. There should've been arrests made.
I was under the impression they rcovered the black box and they have additional recordings of what was said as they plumeted to their deaths. I bet they know exactly how and when each astronaut died.
I remember watching this live my senior year in high school. They wheeled in the TV and we all watched the launch. After the explosion the teacher came back into the classroom and wheeled the TV out. =/
I have wondered, if the parachutes, used to slow down the shuttle, after landing, could have been deployed, or weren't functional after the explosion. Not sure, that even if they were, wether it would have slowed it enough during the massive descent.
Wish NASA had consulted with their local auto mechanic. I been in the auto restoration biz for 50 years and hate o-rings. They fail. NASA should have asked a mechanic.
What a shame. I remember being so excited about being home able to watch the take off. I was so proud of Christa for having such an opportunity for and her students. It was definitely an OMG moment. Nooooooo. Will never forget the day the destruction and lost hopes to the crew . I wish their safety was considered first and foremost.
Those words didn't haunt me to be honest, however, Rick Husband's final cut-off words will forever haunt me as I'll never know what he was trying to say "Roger, uh, but..."
They brought this thing to our warehouse USAF/ BAFB and moved all B52 spares to local hangers. Chared & light green across 2 football fields. Reddit had recordings of major cussing and 2 prayers, screaming for over a full minute. They were alive and burning until impact.
Maybe in future; we will build rocket motors that are lighter weight. Then if they malfunction, pitch them mid launch. If they fail to explode let the rocket motors return to earth on a parachute. The space vehicle can then freely glide back to earth; with out a hazardous payload of malfunctioning rocket fuel. We must learn from this, and show that we learned...by designing spacecraft in a different fashion.
Rest in peace to the members of the Challenger crew.
All members of the Challenger "disaster" are well and alive. There is a reason why they are hiding it.
ohh give me a fkn break you sheeple fall for every lie these satanic freemasons feed spoon ya'll with.
Don't worry, they're still alive.. 🤦
@@greekstud21 not many of us who knows this truth of course they alive.
@@leepopaz253Don't start, Mary.
My father had always been fascinated by the space program. The day of the Challenger launch was the day of my mother’s funeral and we were all in the living room, dressed up for the service and Dad wanted a pleasant distraction. He turned on the tv and we watched the live coverage, of course expecting it to be exciting and hope-filled. Like everyone else, we were absolutely horrified by the tragedy that happened before our eyes. Poor Dad was especially devastated. We shut off the tv and headed to the church in a daze. Mum’s funeral and the Challenger disaster will always be linked for our family.
😯😥
My sister was in the last stage of her fight against cancer but she was alive when this happened.
That must of been Incredibly painful.
It's all random, sometimes things collide unexpectedly and people try to make sense of it. The funny thing is that, the more we try the more we make it worse. ✌️
The O rings were not overly sensitive or flawed. No more than your car is flawed that it can’t run at the top of Mt Everest. Every piece of equipment has an operating range. The O rings had a designed operating range that was well known and documented. The conditions were outside of that range on the day of launch. Engineers at Morton Thiokol tried to raise the issue and were ignored.
Correct.
It was the design of the field joint itself (which also experienced exhaust gas blow-by and impingement several times during warm weather launches) that was flawed.
Correct. They had a deadline and they took the chances. Does not seem fair to the ones who lost their lives.
@@BradH2024 I would argue even the field joint wasn’t flawed. It worked when ran in the conditions they were told to design for it to operate. The fault is squarely on NASA for ignoring that they were choosing to operate outside of the specifications THEY gave to the suppliers. Even after it was pointed out to them.
Yeah, they failed.
I know I'll catch hell for saying this, but I think it happened simply because It was politically advantageous for the then current administration! Reagan's health began rapidly deteriorating in the months just after the "accident," and understandably so.
Morton Thiokol wasn’t just ignored, they were outright berated for daring to raise this crucial safety issue the night before launch. As if it was an audacity to try and keep the astronauts safe.
Uh-oh? It took you over three minutes of video to tell us they said "Uh-oh"? I want my money back!
I had the same feeling
Yeah..NOT left "speechless" .. That was let out long ago. I'm sure there was more but it's probably pretty gruesome and they want to keep it from the public .
They do anything for a click.
Uh-Oh
I clicked on the video already knowing those were the last words which are chilling because it really makes you wonder what he saw or realized, I also can’t stop thinking about what the teacher was feeling or at what point did she realize they are were in trouble man that had to been scary for her smh!
My dad was a teacher and applied for the mission. I watched the Challenger go down as a 1st grader at school. I'm happy he didn't mention his application until I was old enough to understand it.
I watched the Challenger launch from my job at a Hospital in Ft.Myers Florida. A bunch of Techs, nurses, and staff went outside of the building for a perfect launch view. I remember it being quiet cold that morning also. We immediately knew something was wrong when the boosters separated and went opposite directions, after a big while smoke cloud. I will never forget that day. RIP Challenger Crew. Gone but not forgotten
I was a teacher in Nova Scotia, Canada, as the crew prepared for the trip of a life time. For Christa McAuliffe it was to be the class trip of a lifetime. Our staff sent her a postcard of well-wishes.....,I hope she received it....hope it made her smile. Rest in Eternal Peace...
Sharon ( Christa) McAuliffe- The School Teacher- Professor at Syracuse Law
They have her picture
There was NO one on board when the Space Shuttle Challenger Exploded
NASA LIED !
Michael J. Smith- Professor at the University of Wisconsin
University has his picture
Judith ( Judy) Resnik- Professor at Yale Law
They have her picture
Judith won an award in 2008
Way to go Judith !
Frances Richard Scobee- CEO of Cows in Trees Limited
Northern Illinois University
They have his picture
Ronald McNair claims to be his own twin brother Carl McNair
Ellison Onizuka claims to be his own twin brother Claude Onizuka
Sharon ( Christa) McAuliffe-
The School Teacher
Professor at the University of Syracuse college of Law
They have her picture !
Did you look any of this up ?
They were alive on the way down, what an absolute nightmare, may they rest in piece.
Apollo 1 '67
Challenger '86
Columbia '03
Alive but not sure if they were conscious from the G-force. The capsule was probably corkscrew like the roller coaster from hell
Alive and conscious enough to open their emergency oxygen tanks… very, very sad.
Only the two pilots were conscious as likely Judith Resnick had activated their air pack, from the back of their seats. She was the one who could access it. The others including her, all passed out, on the way down. The pilots were aware and they went out like the good troopers, these guys are. The moment they hit the water, everyone was instantly dead. I read a special edition in the Houston Chronicle that had a recording of what went on, in the cockpit They published it and I wish I had kept that paper.
I remember the Apollo 1 accident in 67; Virgil "Gus" Grissom was my favorite astronaut. What a terrible way to die. God bless all their families, may their memories be a blessing.
@@davidmccall4776 Oh God, weren't those guys burned alive?
I watched it live on TV. The next day, my sister, who was one of the many, many candidates considered was interviewed on local news. It didn't occur to me until that moment that I potentially could have lost my sister.
RIP
Dick Scobee
(1939-1986)
Michael J. Smith
(1945-1986)
Ronald McNair
(1950-1986)
Ellison Onizuka
(1946-1986)
Judith Resnik
(1949-1986)
Gregory Jarvis
(1944-1986)
and
Christa McAuliffe
(1948-1986)
No brainless conspiracies allowed! 🫵🏻😠
i have some good news!
@@troonhighheels I’m not in the mood!
I was shopping with my BFF on the day of the disaster. We lived in Lakeland, Florida., roughly 110 miles from Cape Canaveral. We’d ALWAYS had a “good long-distance “aerial”/“visual” view of launches from the Base. We could CLEARLY SEE every rocket and “Shuttle” with the naked-eye. “Launch Viewings” and “Viewing Parties” were as common as “Hurricane Parties”. But they were VASTLY becoming “boring”. THIS Launch however, was a “Special” one.
Thus, there we were…standing amongst a crowd of customers and employees in the “Electronics Section” of a Major Retail Store watching, as per usual, EVERY SINGLE TELEVISION “tuned-in” to the “Historic” launch. After “counting-down”, “out-loud” with everyone else, my BFF and I ran outside to watch it “live”, as it would quickly “enter into our viewpoint”. We joined the “outside crowd” and SAW the explosion happen in REAL TIME!! (Neither my BFF, NOR ANYONE ELSE “WITH US” realized “what had happened”!!) I SCREAMED (and I am NOT a “screamer”) “OH MY GOD IT BLEW UP”!!, in a SINGLE “RUN-ON” SENTENCE, as I turned and RUSHED BACK to the “Electronics Section”, trailed by my BFF AND the ENTIRE OUTSIDE CROWD!!
There, we were met with an “eerie”, STUNNED SILENCE from the ENTIRE STORE. (The Store Manager had even ordered the incessantly-piped, “in-store, ‘music and advertising’ tape reel” to be TURNED OFF.) “Some” were vocally sobbing; “some” muttered Prayer’s for the Crew and their families; “some” silently cried so as “not to frighten their children”; “some” covered their mouths and/or faces in horror…Men and male teenagers alike removed their hats “In Honor” with “some”, respectfully “Saluting”, in absentia.
We ALL STOOD…too SHOCKED and HORRIFIED to say a word, before slowly retreating from the Electronics Section, as all but a few, small televisions were “left on” with the volume “SUBSTANTIALLY lowered” to follow the “aftermath coverage” from the Cape…..
No…I’ll NEVER forget “THAT DAY”…😔
RIP, ✌🏻❤️👊🏻 Peace, Love, and Respect…..
I remember being a 15 year old teenager when this happened. I was home sick and watched it on TV. I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cereal watching the launch. When the Challenger exploded, I sat there frozen in disbelief with my spoon up to my face as to what exactly just happened. "Did the space shuttle really just blow up?"
I then called my mother to the living room telling her, "Mom, come to the living room! The space shuttle just blew up!"
I will always remember the challenger..I was watching it live and saw the pieces going off in different directions, and the smoke trails...I knew right then that it had exploded..so sad..I can still see it and I cried for the 7 brave people who were so happy before this..
I was three months pregnant at the time i watching this tragidy unfold,before my very eyes as i just broke down crying so hard for the families,who lost their loved ones and that evening i started bleeding and lost my baby that night.I then cried for three days after. I will never forget that day and always wonder what my baby would have been and what my baby would have become if this baby would have lived.❤😢💔R.I.P. to my baby and to the beautiful souls lost on the Challenget that very sad day.💔😥🙏
R.I.P. all who were on The Challenger.
Dead rate amongst astronauts ? somewhere around 25%. One out of four may not survive the program. Some died in training like Gus Grissom and his team and others....well, may have died in a regular flight, or something related to it. Seems very high. The people who fly "wing suits" have also that sort of percentage to die. They hit bridges , or mountains, while they navigate their "suits"...... Eventually these percentages get better as people get more experienced. It is still considered high risk !
@@linanicolia1363 controversy around gus grisom .rumours he was gotten rid of because of his concerns about the apollo programme.
We students were all sent home early. What a sad day for our Nation, and the entire world.
nation not a proper noun
They found other failures of those o rings captured during other shuttle launches. They knew there were issues and ignored them until too late. Not only did they redesign the o rings, but NASA got redesigned by people getting fired or asked to stand down. It won't bring back those poor people, but future lives were saved. RIP to the crew. I'll never forget what happened.
I was there on vaca that fri. But it was so cold, they scrubbed. I do have a pic of Challenger on launchpad.
bro it's fake, they all alive. chill out
Did our government use DEI hiring practices in the Challenger program?
I was in 1st grade.
I remember watching it in the gym with the whole school.
I remember there were 100 of us watching it all on ONE 25 INCH TV ON A ROLLING SHELF.
I remember teachers crying.
I also remember they sent us home around 10:30-11:00am.?
3rd grade for me, we watched in the school library.
6th grade and we watched it on a tv rolled into the classroom, when it exploded we didn’t know what to think we just knew something didn’t go right and the teacher didn’t say much just turned the tv off and we went back to class!
I was in the 3rd grade and watched it live with my classmates. What's really odd is that my teacher at the time shared the same last name as the teacher on the spaceship 😮
Very sad, remember it like it was yesterday and I am from South Africa, Cape Town. RIP ladies and gentlemen. 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
Watched it live from my science clsss. It was surreal when it exploded. No one knew what to do or say
NASA said " we have a major malfunction". That is what they said. The cabin ( capsule ) with the astronauts was intact. Has they rigged it with parachutes, like the Soyuz does, they would have been saved. They were always cutting corners.....keeping fingers crossed to make their dead lines.......Same thing with Columbia that got damaged during the launch, with a ( hard ) piece of foam that hit the left leading edge of the shuttle. They had no way to fix it , so they kept their fingers crossed. It failed during re-entry and the astronauts died. That was pretty much the end of the shuttle. After that, the ISS was using the Russian Soyuz to launch the people there and retrieve them. The US had a deal with them ; right now, without Elon Musk, how it would work out, since we are at war, on the Ukraine front, is just up in the air ??? Elon came in at the right time......
The O-rings didn't rupture, they shrunk, due to the cold, thus compromising the seal in the solid propellant booster. The escaping gases, extreme heat, and high pressure did the rest.
There's a book that addresses the O-ring problems in detail. I read it many years ago. If I remember correctly there were also internal problems with Morton-Thiokol.
I remember this very well.
I was getting ready to go out that morning, but I was waiting for my roommate to get home from his job at a donut shop. He always brougt home donuts and i wanted to take a few over to my girlfriends apartment across the courtyard. I looked out the window and saw him blast into his parking space, then saw him sprint out of his truck and head for the door. As soon as the door opened he came in with a look of horror on he face and said, "Turn on the TV, the space shuttle just blew up."
Jeff and I, along with my girlfriend sat in the living room most of the day watching the coverage on CNN.
Almost 40 years later and it's still devastating to watch and witness like it was just yesterday.
Just to clarify the calls to roll and throttle up are confirmation calls not intstructions, the entire launch is Automatic the final call "you are go at throttle up" means everything is good at the throttle up portion of the flight
@@elizabethchase6528 Well they were "Go" as the incident took place after and they had no real time telemetry to provide evidence of anything different before that.
Review of camera footage after launch showed the Puff of black smoke at ignition and the flame burning through the strut. But at the time there was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary
I remember watching this live. Horrifying and heartbreaking. 💔
We were supposed to watch this in 2nd grade. I remember my teacher walking in somber faced and telling my class the shuttle had blown up so I guess we were fortunate in that she was recording it because we were at recess. I remember sometimes early mornings they'd televise shuttle launches that I'd watch with my Dad.
"Going with throttle up"
Boy, I'm speechless.
I went to Kennedy Space Center and in July of this year and was surprised there was no memorial of this ill-fated flight! From PA to FL. I was extremely disappointed!
This isn't common knowledge but after the initial explosion he said "We're going down" and "hang on" and "get your oxygen on" there was also screaming and crying. They lasted about two minutes until impact. NASA has all this recorded.
That's a debunked transcript. A fake.
Do you have a source for this, or just hearsay?
Rubbish the vehicle broke up there would be no power to any recorder and telemetry to the vehicle was lost so nothing could have been transmitted from it. The only way people knew theyhad survived the break up was activation of personal oxy packs which could have not happened accidently
100% false.
That was concocted by the tabloids (Weekly World News).
I am not sure I ever fully recovered from seeing this Live on TV as an 8 year old.
Nasa is like Santa Claus for adults . . . sweet dreams
People eat that stuff up. Oh my God, get another box of tissues. Too many tears! Lmao
What does that even mean?
@@kevinmoore8224Pretty heartless comment dude.
You can't find it now, or at least not easily, but I specifically remember that her young daughter had begged her not to go. As much as we like to think that they died instantly and didn't suffer, that's probably not true. This side of heaven, we won't know what their final thoughts were but I am guessing that she regretted not choosing her little daughter over the thrill of going into space.
“Uh-oh” were the final words.
That is supposed to leave me speechless?
I remember watching the launch live then in horror as the ship exploded. I'll never forget Reagan's speech, that part where he said, "...(they) waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." It made me cry then and does the same today all these years later. Rest in peace.😢
I haven't read or heard that anywhere. A sensor probably went off, but he wouldn't have known what was about to happen. But we do know that the were alive after the explosion. That must of been absolutely frightening. Same with Columbia when it it started to disintegrate. Both are heartbreaking. But as sadly, a tragedy has to happen first before you find a problem and make sure it doesn't happen again.
I was hoping to hear them giving messages to family or even the news, but just “uhoh”👎👎👎.
Unfortunately when it came to Columbia they had warning of what was to come. STS 27 had over 700 tiles damaged after take off. The only reason they didn’t burn up on entry was because of a thicker plate in the right place. There was also warnings about the rings on challenger that were also ignored that occurred on a discovery flight as well as a few others. I only just learned about the tile issue on STS 27 a week ago. I was shocked. There is a video on UA-cam where the commander Hoot Gibbson talks about the incident. He and his wife were in the same intake group as most of the crew of Challenger.
You are correct. - Both of the shuttle accidents were preventable. I went to a lecture conducted by Astronaut Chris Hadfield. He told the audience that he watched the Challenger launch over and over and over again. He - and several others - knew something wasn't quite right even as the crew continued their mission. By then, it was too late, of course. When you fly commercial, the Captain conducts a 'walk around' during every turnaround. - Unfortunately, the Columbia crew didn't have that procedure as an SOP at the time. On later missions, the shuttle pitched up and over outside the ISS, so the station crew - and NASA could inspect the spacecraft's condition. The crew utilised remote cameras as well.
@@cherrytraveller5915I watched that video also!
Most experts believe that what Smith was reacting to was the sudden and complete loss of pressure in the External Tank LH2 tank (as the aft dome of the tank was burned through by the right SRB field joint leak, and then fell off) that he could see on one of the three CRT screens on the forward control panel between himself and Dick Scobee.
As the Pilot (and rookie), it was Smith’s job (with some help from Judy Resnik, who was the Flight Engineer and seated directly behind and between Scobee and Smith, where she had a view of some of the system monitoring screens and gauges) to closely monitor the vehicle systems throughout the launch (Scobee did, too - but as Commander on his second mission, he got to look out the windows and enjoy the view (as did Resnik) - at least until the disaster began to unfold…)
According to some, it’s also possible that Smith may have taken a glance out of a window - at just the right moment to see the the right SRB pivot, and its nose slam into and rupture the ET LOX tank.
I was watching this when I was stationed at Naval Station Winter Harbor.
I'm so sorry to all the families of these brave men and women....❤
There was no hydrogen leak in the right rocket which was a solid fuel booster.
Remember watching it happen on TV, 1986
I remember that day very well.I was sitting watching it live on TV all excited as it took off only to sit shell shocked as I seen it blow up.An explosion that should never have happened!RIP to the members of The Challenger 🙏
I'll never forget that day 😢
Saw it live in my classroom
For some reason I always thought the last words of the challenger crew were uttered specifically by Richard Scobee when he replied to Mission Control, saying, "Roger...go at throttle up." 🤔
There was tremendous to launch on that day despite the severe cold weather and possible O-ring fa
I was in second grade and watched it from home. I will never forget it.
I was in school. It was live. The entire school was watching. Everyone was so excited. It was just awful because nobody really understood what was happening until they told us that it had exploded and the adults were scrambling to turn it off.
I was getting ready for work watching. I sat down on my bed and cried for people i didn't even know 😢
We watched it live and noticed a parachute just after the explosion, the feed then cut to the falling debris.
In every video I've seen since, no place will you find that parachute footage!
This is when VHS first became a new thing so my sister taped everything and she's kind of a pack rat so I'm sure as the day is long she still has that footage...
Wonder What The Parachute Had!?!?🤔
Those were remnants of the SRBs IIRC, there's a video compilation of 4 video feeds of the disaster that includes the production commentary.
Is'nt there a conspiracy theory that the teacher is still alive but she's been hiding and there is some woman out there that looks exactly like her but avoids when being questioned.
I think it is speculated to be a pilot parachute for the multipart parachute system on the nose of the twin SRB rockets. The rockets were designed to float back to the ground to be reusable. Not sure if NASA confirmed it.
@@Gonkyes she’s currently in the hidden city of Atlantis but travels flat earth every leap year.
@@onionhead5780 How wonderful
So sad.. God bless all of them. RIP. 🙏
6 of them are as still alive 😂
I was walking in our Hooks drugstore when I heard about it. When I got home I watched on TV
"Don't touch that button!" I'm just kidding! Without a little levity, we'll never be able to move on. God bless their memories.
I watched an interview with an astronaut who is also a doctor. He said he's certain they died when they hit the water. They might have been knocked unconscious, but only for maybe 30 seconds. It took over 2 minutes to hit the ocean 😢
Read the new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. This is one of the most avoidable tragedies in human history. What a senseless, terrible waste.
It’s weird that six of the seven crew members are alive and kicking to this day! Check it out!
Tinfoil hat alert 🚨
@@coolcat6303 keep up with your sa fe & eff ective v…..🤪
This occurred on January 28, 1986. RIP to all aboard the Challenger.
Remember watching it in school so sad😢😢😢
Giving the kids party hats to wear during the launch was a bad idea.
Rest in peace
Space is hard. RIP🙏🙏🙏🙏
its black ,
Space is easy. Getting there is the hard part.
@@jonbutcher9805as well as getting back. Who knows how many Russians died on the way back in
@@cherrytraveller5915 indeed. Although I believe America still holds the record for death's there and back. No offense to our cosmonaut friend's.
My wife was on the roof of a school when this happened 😢..she will never forget 😢 VOTE BLUE to save our democracy 💙
I remember I was home sick that day from elementary school. I think I was in the 4th or 5th grader. I watched it on t.v. When it took off, I was excited, then stun when it exploded on t.v. What a sad day.
Stating that the "O rings were overly sensitive to cold..." is an incredible gloss over of the facts.
None of them are dead..They are all alive
Do you have to work hard at being an a-hole or does it just come naturally to you?
Pretty sure he was just born that way
I call braindead. This is socially offensive and disgusting. No nothing assholes do this.
NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts.
It was horrifying.RIP.
I remember this day. I was one of those school kids.
The mailman just delivered to our door & I was crying about the Challenger exploding & we hugged.
' Heartbreaking ' - Love / Respect 😢💔🙏🏴
They are all still very much alive
God took them home that day. It’s one of those days you remember exactly where you were when you heard the news 😢💔🙏🏻
They are still alive … never happend don‘t let yourself fooled
Sad day! Everyone who watched it remembers exactly where they were.
So sad, Everyone who watched this live must still have nightmares about this till this day.
Challenger's last words recorded:
"What does this button do?"
Don’t quit your day job.
NASA - Need Another Seven Astronauts...
There was once a report indicating Ronald McNair led a prayer that served to calm a few members of the crew.
Feynman warned them, but they wouldn’t listen
It wasn’t a fireman. It was an engineer from Morton Thiokol.
None of these 7 had the backbone to refuse to go on the mission until they were 100% assured and proven that all was well? Because there was a timeline and a rush a choice was made to commit murder, but no one seems to say that. There should've been arrests made.
I was under the impression they rcovered the black box and they have additional recordings of what was said as they plumeted to their deaths. I bet they know exactly how and when each astronaut died.
A bad rubber has caused a many accidents over the years for lots of people
But you can hear him on the radio, "Copy, go throttle-up". And then the Shuttle explodes. When did he say "Uh-oh"?
My middle school was Christa McAuliffe
I went to Scobee Elementary 💜
Fake they still live today
I remember watching this live my senior year in high school. They wheeled in the TV and we all watched the launch. After the explosion the teacher came back into the classroom and wheeled the TV out. =/
Not one of the worst. The worst.
I have wondered, if the parachutes, used to slow down the shuttle, after landing, could have been deployed, or weren't functional after the explosion. Not sure, that even if they were, wether it would have slowed it enough during the massive descent.
The prestige outweighed
The hazards!
Wish NASA had consulted with their local auto mechanic. I been in the auto restoration biz for 50 years and hate o-rings. They fail. NASA should have asked a mechanic.
What a shame. I remember being so excited about being home able to watch the take off. I was so proud of Christa for having such an opportunity for and her students. It was definitely an OMG moment. Nooooooo. Will never forget the day the destruction and lost hopes to the crew . I wish their safety was considered first and foremost.
Those words didn't haunt me to be honest, however, Rick Husband's final cut-off words will forever haunt me as I'll never know what he was trying to say "Roger, uh, but..."
They brought this thing to our warehouse USAF/ BAFB and moved all B52 spares to local hangers. Chared & light green across 2 football fields. Reddit had recordings of major cussing and 2 prayers, screaming for over a full minute. They were alive and burning until impact.
They were warned not to go
I watched it live on tv in the 4th grade. It was so sad
Roger - go for throttle up !
Uh uh - words of commander
Dick Scobie -
I know the words by heart ❤
Maybe in future; we will build rocket motors that are lighter weight. Then if they malfunction, pitch them mid launch. If they fail to explode let the rocket motors return to earth on a parachute. The space vehicle can then freely glide back to earth; with out a hazardous payload of malfunctioning rocket fuel. We must learn from this, and show that we learned...by designing spacecraft in a different fashion.
Final word from the Pilot, "Wonder if I left the stove on?.
Analysis reports indicate that the relatively intact crew capsule hit the water surface at approx 200 mph.
What if they were still alive? A little government switch on the world?