Shocking Facts About the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

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  • Опубліковано 16 тра 2020
  • Every American who lived through the '80s remembers the Challenger explosion. But what happened to cause the famous national tragedy? How could such a catastrophe happen when NASA so meticulously checks and double checks all the equipment at their disposal?
    Even with all the risks, astronauts gladly put their lives on the line for decades in the pursuit of reaching for the stars. The Challenger tragedy was not the first or the last catastrophe to befall NASA. The exploratory organization has not forgotten the sacrifices of the seven crewmembers who died on January 28, 1986: Francis "Dick" Scobee, Mike Smith, Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ron McNair, Greg Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.
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  • @swagalicious117
    @swagalicious117 4 роки тому +7389

    if the guys who built it say its going to blow up, ITS GOING TO BLOW UP!!!

    • @karenedmiston5964
      @karenedmiston5964 4 роки тому +237

      One of the worse tragic accidents in the history of America. Especially because of Christa.

    • @xynzlollie
      @xynzlollie 4 роки тому +329

      NASA was at fault 100% they had a chance to stop it and delay but they didn't choose too

    • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854
      @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 4 роки тому +48

      Christa McAuliffe had BLUE eyes...
      ...one eye BLEW one direction and the other eye BLEW the other direction!

    • @bleachingiants1
      @bleachingiants1 4 роки тому +13

      @@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 😐🤔😔😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😭

    • @ElusiveLabs
      @ElusiveLabs 4 роки тому +10

      Id hit it

  • @princesse0920
    @princesse0920 3 роки тому +2655

    Whoever decided to ignore the engineers and go on even though they were warned about the shuttle exploding should have been charged with 3rd degree murder.
    They basically sent those astronauts to their deaths.

    • @lss74
      @lss74 3 роки тому +71

      Absolutely !!!

    • @thatairplaneguy
      @thatairplaneguy 3 роки тому +63

      First degree imho

    • @dieleg
      @dieleg 3 роки тому +32

      They shouldnt, it was a tragedy but it wasnt due to one man, it was an entire team of skilled engineers and scientists leading to this tragedy to occur, and it wasnt even directly, so a 3rd degree murder charge is mostly off the picture.

    • @andrewsnowden848
      @andrewsnowden848 3 роки тому +15

      People rushing to judgement should watch the documentary over this. Definitely would learn another perspective.

    • @AL-ob8wc
      @AL-ob8wc 3 роки тому +91

      @@dieleg No, they should. They knew the shuttle would most likely blow up and they did nothing

  • @carriekoehler8619
    @carriekoehler8619 10 місяців тому +156

    My mom was a finalist for the challenger. I was a senior in high school at the time. I thank God every day that she wasn't chosen.

    • @semoneg2826
      @semoneg2826 3 місяці тому +3

      Oh..wow

    • @TheGraduate702
      @TheGraduate702 2 місяці тому +1

      Was she the back up?

    • @kaleimaile
      @kaleimaile 2 місяці тому +1

      I was glad that my mom never applied for the challenger. I was in the 8th grade when it happened.

    • @tatianaromonov1416
      @tatianaromonov1416 2 місяці тому

      is she still with us? glad she lost too!.. for you how frightening

    • @juniordixie9489
      @juniordixie9489 2 місяці тому

      My teacher was a finalist for MS

  • @michelleb7399
    @michelleb7399 Рік тому +587

    For those who weren’t around, the Teacher In Space initiate was HUGE. My uncle (an elementary teacher) and several teachers I knew applied to be in this. It was a really big deal. Christa McAuliffe became a household name. EVERYONE anticipated this and many, many schools halted everything else to show this live. It was truly a national tragedy. For us young Gen X’er, it was the first shared tragedy we knew.

    • @rucianapollard7098
      @rucianapollard7098 Рік тому +29

      Right ✅️ To us, this was like the Kennedy assassination to our parents.

    • @RJERRh0ads4everr
      @RJERRh0ads4everr Рік тому +9

      It was huge. You nailed it😢

    • @jellybeanz3614
      @jellybeanz3614 Рік тому +11

      Even in the midst of tragedy there is hope and it’s in Jesus alone! John 14:27, Jesus says He gives us peace and 1 John 4:10 days God loves us even we don’t love Him back. Turn to Jesus, He has open arms for you!

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Рік тому +1

      I wasn't around...I was a square.

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Рік тому +2

      Did you see all of the coincidences coming out? Very interesting!

  • @bobthompson4319
    @bobthompson4319 4 роки тому +7477

    The most shocking thing about this is that the engineers who built and tested the boosters said that it would happen

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 роки тому +405

      @Poof This!!! Those that approved should have served at least 15 years.

    • @bobthompson4319
      @bobthompson4319 4 роки тому +610

      The engineers tried to say not to fly. So much they where threatened

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 роки тому +115

      @@bobthompson4319 I guess the guilt and regret they had to live with was a form of punishment. It's still not enough.

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 роки тому +52

      @@naddarr1 I find it funny when someone robs a gas station with a weapon, the driver gets charged the same as the perpetrator. This is the same logic. Those engineers are involved in this to a degree.

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 роки тому +184

      It reminds me of the titanic ship being warned the speed was too fast and captain didn't listen.

  • @Vinsternator40
    @Vinsternator40 4 роки тому +836

    Some teachers wanted to turn the tv’s off. But I remember distinctly a teacher stopping them saying “this is history in the the making, don’t stop them from being part of it.”

    • @npeace312
      @npeace312 4 роки тому +88

      Good teacher there. I would have done the same.

    • @LaraCroftEyes1
      @LaraCroftEyes1 4 роки тому +34

      At my school, the principal refused to turn off the TV he said on the speaker the teachers agree with him and I was in the library when the Shuttled explode.

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 4 роки тому +2

      Who is they?

    • @Vinsternator40
      @Vinsternator40 4 роки тому +3

      Merri Cat other teachers, I was so young I can remember any of their names

    • @longgroove
      @longgroove 4 роки тому +25

      I was 11... We watched it through. It's one of the few things that everyone remembered and seems to have seen live in their classrooms everywhere. That freefall in the pressurised cabin must have been terrifying.

  • @MrDarkmarius
    @MrDarkmarius Рік тому +29

    I remember the space shuttle disaster like it was yesterday. I was 17 years old & working as a phone solicitor selling carpet cleaning service. Our office was very busy calling countless people about carpet cleaning when all of a sudden, our office manager got a phone call from our company's owners to immediately stop calling people. Our office manager yelled for all of us to stop calling people & for those of us who were on the phone with customers to apologize for interrupting them & to let them go. Then with a very shaky voice, our office manager said, "The space shuttle Challenger has just exploded!!! Please join me in prayer to help all those involved to be ok!!!" Then our office manager started praying as his voice became more shaky. It was very serious & very touching. All of us were totally shocked

    • @peacewillow
      @peacewillow 2 місяці тому +1

      what a beautiful display of respect.....
      thank you for sharing that. 💕

  • @Dulcimerist
    @Dulcimerist Рік тому +354

    I watched this happen live, and it's one of those events that you remember exactly where you were when it happened.
    Sadly, most people seem to only know Christa McAuliffe's name, but forget about the others who perished in this tragedy.

    • @cdelane3335
      @cdelane3335 Рік тому +16

      Yes I was in 2nd grade our teachers let us watch it. I remember they hurried to the TV and turned it off they where visible upset and they started trying to distract us from what happened but even at 8 I knew something bad had happened because my teachers body language told me.

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Рік тому +1

      Where were you when the dinner bell rings?

    • @yvettepurnell-davis5626
      @yvettepurnell-davis5626 Рік тому +1

      ​@@cdelane3335 I was in 2nd grade also... the teacher let us watch...

    • @anselmocosio6647
      @anselmocosio6647 Рік тому +4

      So did my wife and I
      That was a cold morning
      No common sense at NASA to stop and wait for warmer weather
      It's basic physics
      The way hot and cold affects the way things operate

    • @largol33t1
      @largol33t1 Рік тому +5

      I saw the Challenger explode on TV, watching it from my classroom in Oklahoma. I never forgot the faces of the entire crew when they showed the publicity picture of all 7 of them. The picture was clearly burned into my memory. I did ask myself why we took such insane risks. And the best answer I got was watching an interview on TV with the late Ronald McNair. He said he knew and understood the dangers but he went because he said "How will we know what's out there?" And I still remember that. It's no different from 15th century explorers daring to sail west through the Atlantic despite common fears at the time that the world was "flat" and that you would fall off the edge. Had Christopher Columbus and the Vikings before him not taken that chance, we probably wouldn't have known about the existence of North or South America. We need to keep exploring space. We need to find out what's out there and beyond. Think about why the show Star Trek and all its spinoffs are so popular. Think about the famous ad tag line: To explore new worlds and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before...

  • @shakes525
    @shakes525 3 роки тому +3134

    We watched this live in middle school. One girl realized what happened before anyone else and was hysterical. We didn't find out until later her mother was a finalist in the teachers in space program.

    • @nillyk5671
      @nillyk5671 3 роки тому +83

      @@jockoharpo2622 Take your anxiety medicine and go to bed.

    • @joshgriffin747
      @joshgriffin747 3 роки тому +91

      Her mom was in the teachers in space program? My 6th grade teacher said that she herself was the alternate for mcuula . In fact she even had nasas moon rocks for a week. She had the case handcuffed to her wrist 24-7 . Here in Moses Lake ,Washington

    • @shakes525
      @shakes525 3 роки тому +204

      @@joshgriffin747 Yes, obviously not the one chosen but in one of the final rounds. They had to call her mom and let her talk to her to calm her down.
      I've always wanted to hold a moon rock. Never gotten the chance tho :(

    • @shaneb8254
      @shaneb8254 3 роки тому +133

      @@shakes525 I've smoked moon rocks before.

    • @tkaiabutler2245
      @tkaiabutler2245 3 роки тому +42

      I had a substitute teacher once who was a finalist. I was down to her and the teacher who won

  • @twosocks9002
    @twosocks9002 3 роки тому +4868

    No one should ever be able to “overrule”engineers.

    • @FurnitureFan
      @FurnitureFan 3 роки тому +230

      Agreed, engineers should have had a veto to launch a couple of hours later.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 роки тому +108

      It was the second time too! They overruled them in mid-1985 as well.

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 роки тому +18

      Judge Judith Schndlin can!

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 роки тому +7

      You need a check up from the neck up!

    • @Dizinii
      @Dizinii 3 роки тому +84

      Reagan wanted to address the astronauts live (in space) during his state of the nation address. That's why they felt pressured to launch. It was mentioned in an old documentary but hasn't come up in subsequent features since. I guess it's un american to blame a president

  • @judybrady860
    @judybrady860 10 місяців тому +15

    I was a stay at home mom. My kids were down for a nap and I decided to start knitting a scarf when my husband called and told me to put on the television. It was a total gut wrenching feeling to see those onlookers looking up in total shock. In 1997 we took a trip to see the launch pad. I will never forget that day. R.I.P challenger crew.

  • @torifair
    @torifair 11 місяців тому +58

    I remember vividly the exact moment. I was a junior in college, studying all year in Florence, Italy. I saw pictures of the explosion on the newspapers outside the stores when I was walking to school. It was surreal because my friends in the market and the coffee shop gave me their condolences. As an American. I felt very homesick.

  • @myjournee7381
    @myjournee7381 4 роки тому +616

    I was in the second grade watching live in school.... I remember vividly my teacher bursting into tears. I will never forget that day...

    • @mackey4568
      @mackey4568 4 роки тому +2

      They got you

    • @79jwhite
      @79jwhite 4 роки тому +12

      I was in 2nd grade as well. We were watching on tvs in the hallways because there wasn't enough sets for every classroom. Vivid memory.

    • @elleboogie1716
      @elleboogie1716 4 роки тому +8

      I was also in 2nd grade watching, I will NEVER forget that day 😢

    • @mikedlc9766
      @mikedlc9766 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/4TJVhdPtEkE/v-deo.html

    • @searching4adventure85
      @searching4adventure85 4 роки тому

      Then Ashton Kutcher jumped out.

  • @Superduper666
    @Superduper666 3 роки тому +548

    I was at work when one guy yelled in shock, “the Challenger blew up!” Never will forget the shock of that moment. It was only surpassed by 9/11.

    • @fishersteven8900
      @fishersteven8900 3 роки тому +5

      Was meant to happen was no accident they're all still alive . Nobody was on the shuttle. Same with 911 it's wasn't an accident either. Wake up people no they're using covid 19 to divide us 💯

    • @thomasloveless4800
      @thomasloveless4800 3 роки тому +32

      The obligatory internet troll has entered the chat.....

    • @Jase583
      @Jase583 3 роки тому +2

      @@byyykusto no they are not. Do some real research. The videos and photo's claiming they are alive are all complete BS and that is a fact.

    • @potatoking6571
      @potatoking6571 3 роки тому +2

      @@fishersteven8900 go

    • @potatoking6571
      @potatoking6571 3 роки тому

      @@fishersteven8900 K

  • @desireezavala7500
    @desireezavala7500 8 місяців тому +12

    I was 10 years old and watching the shuttle lift off with my elementary school class. Everyone was so excited about watching the shuttle take off because a teacher was on board and back then, it was very uncommon to watch TV in school. I still remember the lift off so clearly and then suddenly seeing smoke and realizing it would explode and then watching it explode and fall into the ocean. Everyone was in shock. I still remember being in a profound state of shock watching that live as a child and every time I read about it or watch videos of it, even now, it still makes me cry. May they all rest in peace.

  • @jacquelineoh6382
    @jacquelineoh6382 Рік тому +75

    This made me cry, especially about Christa ( the teacher) she was so excited. Knowing that Barbara Morgan went in 2007 successfully touched me, I wished Christa had experienced that.

    • @turkoturktech5003
      @turkoturktech5003 Рік тому

      Really?? Did u Really cry? I don't believe you !!!

    • @keelyourshelf
      @keelyourshelf Рік тому

      Jesus you're hot.

    • @kln58cub
      @kln58cub 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@turkoturktech5003
      Hard to believe people have empathy for others? As a mother I cried for the parents lost to their children.

    • @AncientttimeZ
      @AncientttimeZ Місяць тому

      Christa is the lucky one. She's with God. What better place is there to be?

  • @detective___mcnulty
    @detective___mcnulty 4 роки тому +6950

    Some of Christa's students became teachers in honor of her.

    • @randominternetprofile8270
      @randominternetprofile8270 4 роки тому +100

      What grade did she teach

    • @danam0228
      @danam0228 4 роки тому +274

      that's very touching

    • @L-mo
      @L-mo 4 роки тому +42

      Stupid comment

    • @danam0228
      @danam0228 4 роки тому +135

      @@L-mo how so?

    • @melvinschrute9617
      @melvinschrute9617 4 роки тому +227

      @J. B. calm down you chromosome collector, it's literally not even a big deal

  • @presidentskroob522
    @presidentskroob522 3 роки тому +811

    'Sadly, the engineers were overruled by their managers'
    Unfortunately, this probably applies to countless accidents / deaths

    • @amp08021
      @amp08021 3 роки тому +24

      The biggest disasters happened like this. Chernobyl and even Fukushima.

    • @dano1307
      @dano1307 3 роки тому +16

      i was told it happens on airlines all the time... they weigh the cost of repairing/replacing the plane vs the cost of death for all passengers. i dont know if its 100 percent true

    • @popra432
      @popra432 3 роки тому +9

      That is because of the cancer of the progress that is the business and so-called economics and marketing is overtaking the logic of the program of doing something science kind! That is why we have only little better new cars, but more expansive and the difference is only in design and shinier other look! And this apply to many products!

    • @wernerboden239
      @wernerboden239 3 роки тому +2

      Yes. Let's not forget how FDA approved foods accounts for some
      deformities in newborns, for instance.
      Or how lead in paint, was said to be harmless.
      The list goes on, undoubtedly.

    • @popra432
      @popra432 3 роки тому

      @@wernerboden239 yes and this terrorist hidden organisation is constantly refusing to ban cigarettes and tobacco products cause they are highly bribed by those who sell them! So there is need for a greater revolution in the world to change this for good!

  • @jugghead-1975
    @jugghead-1975 8 місяців тому +8

    I remember our teacher wheeled a little 19" TV into our classroom to watch live and her absolutely loosing it when the unthinkable happened! Then most the class was in tears and we were 11 or 12 so it was a heavy moment in time that I'll never forget! Thanks Mrs C ...you were a life changer! ✌️

  • @brettwhittlesey6862
    @brettwhittlesey6862 Рік тому +22

    Scobee piloted that craft even without wings all the way down...
    they were the best of us.
    absolutely heartbreaking.
    rest in peace...

  • @wzvy
    @wzvy 4 роки тому +513

    "So basically there's a timeline not far from ours where big bird is one of the casualties on the space shuttle challenger disaster"
    -Sam o' Nella, 2018

    • @IceAxe1940
      @IceAxe1940 4 роки тому +36

      I see you're a fellow person of culture.....

    • @OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO
      @OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO 4 роки тому +32

      Or there is a timeline where NASA listened to the engineers and everyone survived.

    • @erickmack4131
      @erickmack4131 4 роки тому

      Should i know who that is or gaf??

    • @imrichsoexpensiveglasses9932
      @imrichsoexpensiveglasses9932 4 роки тому

      I don't get it

    • @powe6048
      @powe6048 4 роки тому

      Erick Mack he’s a guy who makes history related videos

  • @will.a.benjamin
    @will.a.benjamin 4 роки тому +982

    So sad to think of how easily it could have been avoided. All they had to do was wait for warmer weather.

    • @TheBsheep
      @TheBsheep 4 роки тому +61

      Or just altogether build it right and use O rings made from a different type of material, that was more suitable for the mission.

    • @howardbartlett3419
      @howardbartlett3419 3 роки тому +7

      @@TheBsheep There isn't any suitable material that wouldn't have suffered the same problems. It would have been better if the overall design of the shuttle didn't use any SRB's anyway. Liquid propulsion is significantly safer than solid propulsion.

    • @TheBsheep
      @TheBsheep 3 роки тому +8

      @@howardbartlett3419 I think you missed the point. I'll break it down better for you. If engineers (the personnel building the shuttle) are telling you that the material you are using will not work, if you are a manager or someone else who's in charge of the mission, you probably shouldn't push back and go against their decision. The "Discover", which was a 5 man mission, successfully launched in 1988, a year later. Even if they had to wait a year, the "Challenger" should've been engineered the same as it''s successor to ensure a more safer vessel with reliable material.

    • @stillsearching5816
      @stillsearching5816 3 роки тому +6

      When you are signing up for being an astronaut you are essentially a lab rat and they need to have failures to know what is safe. Especially in the early days of space travel. Its getting much better now though.

    • @howardbartlett3419
      @howardbartlett3419 3 роки тому +12

      @@TheBsheep Yes, I am well aware. My grandfather was one of those engineers who told them to delay the launch. The problem wasn't with the material, it was that the material was too cold. If they would have launched a few hours later, things would have likely been fine.

  • @Saved-Christian.Catholic_120
    @Saved-Christian.Catholic_120 Рік тому +62

    I was 20 years old and was still living with my folks when this happened. We were watching it on television and were horrified to see the explosion. It was devastating and heartbreaking. May the astronauts rest in peace.

    • @rcristy
      @rcristy 10 місяців тому +1

      Do some googling and you'll find they're still alive less one.

    • @nightrunner1456
      @nightrunner1456 10 місяців тому +1

      I was working, the radio station I listen to send a young woman to cover the story live.

    • @jaysmith5175
      @jaysmith5175 10 місяців тому

      the event was fake

    • @nightrunner1456
      @nightrunner1456 10 місяців тому

      @@jaysmith5175 The event was real this channel is just spinning it, so late the media can call you a "Flat Earther" something that concocted if the first place.

    • @user-qi1sz2be3d
      @user-qi1sz2be3d 6 місяців тому +1

      @@jaysmith5175 What is bro waffling about 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

  • @lorenzo1660
    @lorenzo1660 Рік тому +39

    When this tragedy happened I was a 9 year old elementary school student. Christa McAuliffe's death "in front of" her students really hit me.

    • @fredlandry6170
      @fredlandry6170 10 місяців тому +2

      I was 16 at school and someone said the space shuttle blew up when we were on lunch break.

  • @Metonymy1979
    @Metonymy1979 4 роки тому +258

    I remember that because my Dad was so excited that a teacher(like him) was going into space. Everyone was quiet. The teacher just sat there, hands to face. It felt like forever. Then we all went home early. My dad has a vanity license plate in dedication to the Challenger.

    • @AidenAidan
      @AidenAidan 4 роки тому +1

      Could you expand on that more? Like what was the first thing the teacher said to you guys and how did it effect you in your life?

    • @Metonymy1979
      @Metonymy1979 4 роки тому +1

      @@AidenAidan I was was very young so my memory is spotty.
      I remember the teacher sitting us down, around the TV. I don't remember the explosion. I just remember everyone being in shock and the teacher with her hands over her face. Then, I remember other teachers getting kids ready to go home. I lived down the street and walked home. An hour later my dad came through the door holding back tears. I'd never seen my Dad cry. Thats when I understood, oh this is very bad. I don't know if it effected me. Perhaps, I've seen so much(wars, 9/11) that I'm numb.

    • @Applewille
      @Applewille 4 роки тому +2

      @@DudeHomer please

    • @justinpino8115
      @justinpino8115 4 роки тому

      Smeg-head

    • @Applewille
      @Applewille 4 роки тому

      @channel break Care to elaborate?

  • @3chords490
    @3chords490 3 роки тому +736

    When bureaucrats and politicians rule and the people who actually know things are ignored it never goes well.

    • @the99thtimelord16
      @the99thtimelord16 3 роки тому +22

      Your words are more true than you even know. Greg Jarvis died on Challenger because 2 cheeky politicians took his spot which bumped Jarvis twice, ultimately landing him on Challenger. Infuriating. This is a guy who joined the Air Force in Vietnam and worked his ass off beating out engineer after engineer the non-traditional route to become an actual member of the space program. He was one of our programs absolute greatest minds... but some politicians wanted to ride the rocket.

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 3 роки тому +8

      History is full of such scenarios and we are currently experiencing it once more…

    • @Jameswilllee
      @Jameswilllee 3 роки тому +6

      So true. The Chernobyl disaster also comes to mind.

    • @taelermoore5060
      @taelermoore5060 3 роки тому +8

      Kinda like Trump did for the virus eh...

    • @christopherj5780
      @christopherj5780 3 роки тому +1

      A sad lesson still not learned.

  • @AR-sz5lm
    @AR-sz5lm 10 місяців тому +30

    I was in kindergarten when this happened. All 3 kindergarten classes watched this together. It was so sad. At first it was confusing, and then the teachers started crying and some of us picked up that they died. It's still so heartbreakingly surreal to think about

    • @christopher-xi2ey
      @christopher-xi2ey 10 місяців тому +2

      I was in third grade and we didn't understand at first, we saw the explosion and said, ahhh cool!!! Our teacher Mr Gripper explained that people died

    • @DesertFox0420
      @DesertFox0420 10 місяців тому

      Exact situation with me. No one knew what to do.

  • @robertcrist5747
    @robertcrist5747 Рік тому +62

    I watched this happen live. I'll never forget the families on the ground in shock at what they had witnessed. God Bless 🇺🇸

  • @tylertyler1360
    @tylertyler1360 4 роки тому +391

    Imagine being the manager who overruled the decision to postpone the launch...

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 4 роки тому +31

      He continiued to work at NASA and eventually got promoted to head of NASA and says he still feels he made the rigth call...

    • @jamiebarrientos9969
      @jamiebarrientos9969 4 роки тому +4

      Thats a classic twenty one pilots situation right there

    • @eliaszuniga3385
      @eliaszuniga3385 4 роки тому +9

      He should be in jail

    • @shirleykurtz
      @shirleykurtz 3 роки тому +3

      They probably promoted him!

    • @UdumbaraMusic
      @UdumbaraMusic 3 роки тому +4

      @Aidan Bavinton I'd say murder. They were told it would blow up, they knew what happens when people blow up, they put people in something they knew would blow up, it blew up. It's like pushing someone in front of a train then getting manslaughter because technically the train did it.

  • @Vinsternator40
    @Vinsternator40 4 роки тому +705

    The most terrifying thing about this was they were still alive even after the explosion and didn’t die until impact. I hope and pray they were unconscious and did not suffer.

    • @andrewlopez3745
      @andrewlopez3745 4 роки тому +7

      How long do you think it would take to fall 3 miles? And do you think there is a chance some of the astronauts survived the explosion?

    • @DannyBoy-gw4rs
      @DannyBoy-gw4rs 4 роки тому +158

      @@andrewlopez3745 They all survived the explosion, their cabin didnt decompress and when their bodies were found their personal emergency air packs were manually activated, proving they were alive till they hit the ocean.

    • @Chris.Davies
      @Chris.Davies 4 роки тому +79

      It is almost certain that they were unconscious. The crew section began spinning rapidly, which would cause them to pass out.

    • @donpettyandthespacefakers1798
      @donpettyandthespacefakers1798 4 роки тому +11

      trust me they did not suffer at all

    • @rodhale9211
      @rodhale9211 4 роки тому +23

      Indeed. They have lived a long time after the explosion.

  • @lonerebeI
    @lonerebeI Рік тому +8

    Shocking how no criminal charges and prison time came after this clear wilful negligence smh. RIP to these brave astronauts/educators

  • @maybetnp
    @maybetnp Місяць тому +2

    I was a young nurse working in pediatrics. Our ward secretary looked up from his desk and said, “it blew up”. We asked what? And he told us. Next thing I remember was being home at my parent’s house and being glued to the news. It definitely is one of the most tragic events of my life. I will never forget it.

  • @jusnuts1443
    @jusnuts1443 3 роки тому +453

    I was a senior in high school when this happened. I was in English class. Our teacher wheeled in a TV on a cart and said "Forget the lesson plan! Watch! This is history." God rest her soul. She past away recently. She was such a good teacher! And a loving person.

    • @cellblocknine5385
      @cellblocknine5385 3 роки тому +6

      what did she say or do when the shuttle blew up

    • @jusnuts1443
      @jusnuts1443 3 роки тому +23

      @@cellblocknine5385 Just stared at the TV, with tears. Just like the rest of us. There were no words. Everyone was in shock. We were all heartbroken! We looked forward to the first lesson from space.

    • @kanayd
      @kanayd 3 роки тому +19

      I was a junior in english class watching this live. You could have heard a pin drop the other side of the building when Challenger exploded. That moment still haunts me. And now to find out they were alive until the shuttle hit the ground...truly haunting. God bless them all and their families. 🙏

    • @jusnuts1443
      @jusnuts1443 3 роки тому +5

      @@kanayd It's only later, when I was in the Army, that I understood. Murphy's Rules of Combat: Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.
      It was just their time.

    • @elenasalvatierrapowers1357
      @elenasalvatierrapowers1357 3 роки тому +5

      I was in 4th grade and remember this so clearly. Our teacher had the big TV cart ready since the day before. He was so excited. I will never forget his face when it happen.

  • @NottoJokin
    @NottoJokin 4 роки тому +2303

    The fact that kids could've witnessed Big Bird exploding is even more terrifying

    • @notmaireelneim
      @notmaireelneim 4 роки тому +129

      Thank goodness Big Bird was OK.

    • @VeracityLH
      @VeracityLH 4 роки тому +301

      That would have been a helluva Sesame Street episode, explaining how Big Bird died. No joke.

    • @konsuelowatkins6712
      @konsuelowatkins6712 4 роки тому +67

      OMG - No, I don't think I would have ever recovered.

    • @louvreunknown
      @louvreunknown 4 роки тому +54

      It was bad enough watching it explode live and watching my teacher breakdown, I was only in first grade but remember it very well.

    • @bracita15
      @bracita15 4 роки тому +39

      louvreunknown I was a Teacher’s Aide in a 1st grade class when this happened. I remember being super excited for the Teacher in Space since I was taking college classes to get me ready for a teaching career. Thankfully, we weren’t watching it live. I’ll never forget the Principal coming on the PA system to let us know what happened. I remember the teacher I worked with and myself gasping and staring at each other when we heard the news. I clearly don’t remember Ms. Boraz explaining it to the lil ones after the announcement though. I was still in shock. Until that day, shuttle takeoffs were pretty much routine. We’d gotten used to them so we rarely watched them live anymore. I don’t even remember if I knew that the shuttle was launching that day because they’d cancelled it so many times before. It infuriates me to think that they pretty much launched because they were pressured into it. I still remember all the news coverage, learning the astronaut’s names, jobs and what an O-Ring was. As well as watching footage of them board the shuttle bus taking then to the launch pad over and over. Finding out that the astronauts were alive while free falling to their deaths is heart wrenching.

  • @mankinmarketing
    @mankinmarketing Місяць тому +2

    I was working at a cabinet shop. As I was heading towards the lunch truck at the time the shuttle was launching, I passed the machine shop next to us. I then heard the guys inside saying “OMG, IT BLEW UP!!” I stepped inside their shop to watch as the shuttle was falling back into the ocean. That was a sad day I’ll never forget.

  • @srincident
    @srincident Рік тому +2

    I was a sophomore in high school. It was a snow day and I slept in but got up right before the launch. When the explosion happened, I remember saying, "That's not right." What a disaster. In late Spring, I competed in a national Speech and Drama competition in Baltimore, MD. Our group toured D.C. and went to Arlington National Cemetery. The Challenger astronauts had just been laid to rest there. I'm 52 and this still resonates with me.

  • @paridhi_d9167
    @paridhi_d9167 4 роки тому +686

    This is like modern titanic tragedy - pride in proving themselves right was more important than people's lives..

    • @StarMercurian
      @StarMercurian 4 роки тому +27

      So stupid how you aren't going to listen to an engineer of all people.Line that's their job!That's what they fucking got their degree in smh.

    • @RunehearthCL
      @RunehearthCL 4 роки тому +18

      @@StarMercurian Americans are not very good in listening the experts lol

    • @stewiepid4385
      @stewiepid4385 4 роки тому +7

      Kind of like how politicians treat U.S. Citizens now.

    • @shindari
      @shindari 4 роки тому +17

      @@stewiepid4385 Politicians have always treated citizens this way. Don't even fool yourself into ever believing there was a "better" time. There wasn't. It's just that we hear more about it, nowadays, because the 24 hour news cycle won't give us any kind of a break from the badness.

    • @paridhi_d9167
      @paridhi_d9167 4 роки тому +2

      @@StarMercurian yeah right 🤦‍♀️

  • @Wrz2e
    @Wrz2e 3 роки тому +514

    This tragic incident is a case study in why management should listen to workers before imposing top down decisions.

    • @billyoung8118
      @billyoung8118 3 роки тому +30

      Because of the Challenger disaster, as well as many other engineering disasters, all engineering majors are required to take a class called Engineering Ethics. It essentially teaches engineering majors that you are required to do anything necessary (including approach media, police, governors, senators, even the President) if management refuses to believe that you have a factual and legitimate concern of loss of life due to a potential flaw in design. This was a very important class in my Electrical Engineering degree.

    • @DQBlizzard_
      @DQBlizzard_ 3 роки тому +3

      and this isnt even the first time that a NASA worker warned management of a problem, one of the Apollo tests killed three astronauts and one of the scientists warned management about the fire hazard yet they went on with the tests

    • @kaplislemesis4789
      @kaplislemesis4789 3 роки тому +7

      Management is sittin comfy and usually well aware of the dangers, also they are aware they aint facing these dangers.

    • @monstadable
      @monstadable 3 роки тому +1

      And a good example of how bureaucracies fail.

    • @kaplislemesis4789
      @kaplislemesis4789 3 роки тому

      @@monstadable they didnt fail, they got paid in reality they have no reason to change, they saved millions over the year they ignored the problem

  • @capti443
    @capti443 10 місяців тому +6

    I remember it well! At the time, I was an officer on a US Navy submarine, and we were underway in the Atlantic ocean. I was the communications officer, so I got to see all of the classified and unclassified navy message traffic real time. As a kid, I was (and still am) keenly interested in space. I grew up in the golden age of the space race in the in the 1960s. It was something I will never forget.
    In fact, many years later, I was involved in NASA‘s space shuttle return-to-flight program after we lost the second shuttle. Quite frankly, it was very disappointing and disheartening to see some of the issues at NASA that led to that second tragedy.

  • @LukeBCtown
    @LukeBCtown Рік тому +36

    I think the most touching stories are the ones like having her backup end up making it to space years later. Or the soccer ball making it to space. Love the American spirit these men and women carried and they were able to find some sort of positive accomplishment out of such a tragedy

  • @dennisn1672
    @dennisn1672 3 роки тому +1044

    Doesn't even seem like it was that long ago. The older you get. The faster your life flies by. Especially when you work most everyday.

    • @proud90skid15
      @proud90skid15 3 роки тому +68

      Work kills. The system is a joke. We were meant to be hunter/gatherers working a few hours a day if that for food and shelter. Yay progressive society... we’re already dead...

    • @belindadrake5487
      @belindadrake5487 3 роки тому +21

      It’s so true that the older you get, the faster it does go. You have more to worry about; there are to many people on this polluted, small planet. People having lVF treatments when you can adopt an unwanted child. I will never understand WHY people need to have their ‘own children’. LOVE is LOVE anyway you want to look at it. RAPING this planet of animals, & the treatment of the poor? Teach a man to fish.... l for one am glad l have no children. It’s all buggered up this poor ol’ world. You just have to make your own world; l for one can’t save it. Can you? 💔✨

    • @alexfilma16
      @alexfilma16 3 роки тому +6

      Belinda Drake “LOVE is LOVE”. Does that include pedophiles then?

    • @saintshrooms9424
      @saintshrooms9424 3 роки тому +2

      Alex May yup and I guess that means that prison is just a building

    • @lickmypickle922
      @lickmypickle922 3 роки тому +7

      Alex May What part of that was justifying pedophilia?

  • @aaronm4706
    @aaronm4706 3 роки тому +432

    Why aren't these managers ever held accountable for their negligence? The same thing happened with Columbia. They were warned about a possible issue, and they ignored it. They should be serving lengthy prison sentences for the deaths they've caused.

    • @ShabaaUkelele
      @ShabaaUkelele 3 роки тому +6

      @Joe studly the people in power you guys keep on voting for 😉 so whose fault is it?

    • @L_MD_
      @L_MD_ 3 роки тому +11

      Shabba Ukelele “you guys keep voting for ... “ you’re in that category too y’know.

    • @melvinfleck
      @melvinfleck 3 роки тому +9

      The fact they forever will have to live with their decision is heavy. Believe me they should have been held accountable. But, God knows they do not go on unpunished.

    • @mehermusic2154
      @mehermusic2154 3 роки тому

      @@L_MD_ no, i ALWAYS vote third party

    • @fishfoodie
      @fishfoodie 3 роки тому +3

      that would set the unimaginable precedent of political appointees being held responsible for their decisions; & thus Politicians.

  • @MmSueable
    @MmSueable Рік тому +4

    I saw the smoke trail while standing in a parking lot in Boca Raton. I thought it was a strange occurrence at the time. I didn’t know what had happened until I was home and turned on the TV. I was stunned as I realized what I had just witnessed. A dreadful sadness washed over me.
    I will never forget that sight and the feeling it created in me.

  • @taramarielmt
    @taramarielmt Рік тому +3

    My dad was working at KSC/NASA when this happened. I was about 3 years old so I only remember how distraught everyone was that day. When I was a little older and started kindergarten, I attended Challenger 7 Elementary school named after the tragedy. The school had a huge picture of the crew that was signed by each individually in the office. My father (he works in hazardous gas detection lab at Kennedy Space Center) won a silver snoopy award for saving another shuttle from potential disaster in 1988. His office scrubbed both Artemis launches as well. They really do take safety to a whole other level now.

  • @ronmaciejewski4855
    @ronmaciejewski4855 3 роки тому +1017

    I'm an engineer, not nearly as prestigious as a NASA engineer, but an engineer nevertheless. Nothing bothers me more than when someone who isn't an engineer overrules my decision. Thankfully, in the world of architectural HVAC, people don't die when my decisions are overruled.

    • @matthewloomis838
      @matthewloomis838 3 роки тому +8

      Service tech they sure make it hard for service techs tho lol engineers lol

    • @bayougtr
      @bayougtr 3 роки тому +9

      He said “Engineer” three times!!!

    • @samsmusichub
      @samsmusichub 3 роки тому +10

      I'm a graduating engineer studying the Columbia disaster. NASA was definitely not living up to the expectations of private industry or the public at the time of Challenger or Columbia.

    • @nitrocw
      @nitrocw 3 роки тому +16

      Im an engineering technician with 25 years under my belt. Geotechnical and Structural Engineering. We NEVER go against the P.E.
      Thats a death wish in my field.

    • @anthonyspanjich2772
      @anthonyspanjich2772 3 роки тому +16

      @@nitrocw I'm a civil engineer. I just build bridges and stuff like that but when we make a call - its serious (eg wind too high to try plant 176 tonne bridge beams on top of columns). Yes, people can die and I know some have in my industry..... Why on earth didn't they listen to their engineer? He was the smartest guy in the room.....

  • @MaryJane-th7mg
    @MaryJane-th7mg 4 роки тому +349

    That's so messed up that they were alive during the whole thing, rip to the challenger crew

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 роки тому +18

      They likely died before they crashed into the ocean. After free falling so many feet in air you're likely to die.
      Personally I would prefer a few minutes of life knowing it's the end but certainly not if I were going to drown to death.

    • @michaezell4607
      @michaezell4607 4 роки тому +51

      @@zippitydodaday6037 They were killed instantly upon hitting the ocean. At that altitude hitting water is essentially the same as hitting concrete.

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 роки тому +8

      @@michaezell4607
      Yeah... Makes sense. I tried to avoid thinking that to spare brutal image thoughts, but easier to read than to write it....

    • @RyanBurnsRed
      @RyanBurnsRed 4 роки тому +9

      @@zippitydodaday6037 no offense but I don't think you know what you're talking about

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 4 роки тому

      @@michaezell4607 -I always wondered about that, because how much was the shuttle built to be able to withstand?. Could it have made it in one piece upon impact? I always thought maybe they had survived for sometime under the water.

  • @farzan000
    @farzan000 Рік тому +17

    I was a freshman at university then, a 18 year old young man. When I heard about the tragedy, I was reviewing biology for the following day test. I remember the shocking moment the world learned about it. 😱😫

    • @jellybeanz3614
      @jellybeanz3614 Рік тому

      It is shocking and saddening of the event. There is a hope even in the midst of the hardship. Jesus has come and has given us true life if we turn to Him. John 10:10-11, talks about Jesus came into the world to give life and he laid down his life for us. Ephesians 2:8 talks about we are saved because of Jesus, It is a free gift! Even during hard times there is hope! I pray for the families that were all effected on that day that saw what had happened to the challenger

  • @jogann2453
    @jogann2453 Рік тому +104

    I saw this live and it had a profound affect on me. This and 911 are two events in my life that I wish never ever happened.

    • @stephanienicole1747
      @stephanienicole1747 Рік тому +5

      Amen

    • @roro4787
      @roro4787 Рік тому +9

      what did you think when your country bombed the hell out of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc? that didn't profoundly affect you right?

    • @robinhood6954
      @robinhood6954 Рік тому

      @@roro4787 Well said! 👍

    • @HiBye-ec8ts
      @HiBye-ec8ts Рік тому +17

      @@roro4787 Zero correlation between what she said and you replied with. Literally zero

    • @mattyctill
      @mattyctill Рік тому +2

      You're blessed if these are the worst things to happen in your life, considering you didn't know the victims etc

  • @emilybehnke8004
    @emilybehnke8004 3 роки тому +160

    My 3rd grade teacher was one of the runner's up for that launch. I remember her crying when she was talking about it, I can't imagine how scary it would be

    • @Tpklmale
      @Tpklmale 3 роки тому +13

      My best friend's Mother qualified #6 for the teacher spot. Her name was Vivian Woods. She died last week. I remember 10 - 12 inch thick literature packs she had to study as part of the qualifications.

    • @ajaxashford4815
      @ajaxashford4815 3 роки тому +2

      no one died. That Teacher is still alive. it was all a stunt.

    • @Tpklmale
      @Tpklmale 3 роки тому +22

      @@ajaxashford4815 with all due respect, which is zero, fuck you.

    • @x_ultra6628
      @x_ultra6628 3 роки тому +1

      interesting my 6th grade science teacher was also a runner up in phx az

    • @borninmassteaparty3132
      @borninmassteaparty3132 3 роки тому +1

      Whoah that is Freaky! Imagine being her and thinking, "God that could have been me".

  • @paahl1572
    @paahl1572 3 роки тому +2243

    Moral of the story: always listen to engineers. They have more schooling than you.

    • @Audfile
      @Audfile 3 роки тому +24

      Because engineers never faek up. Right.

    • @patrickharvey158
      @patrickharvey158 3 роки тому +11

      The why do they make it impossible for mechanics to work on things

    • @bfreak444
      @bfreak444 3 роки тому +66

      @@Audfile no but when rocket scientist tell you the rockets aren’t going to work from past trial runs with Lives at stake it’s best to take their word. They KNOW more than you. Idiot...

    • @backdoorletsdothis
      @backdoorletsdothis 3 роки тому +20

      More schooling doesn't always mean you're right.

    • @DemnRaig80
      @DemnRaig80 3 роки тому +2

      @@bfreak444 Is name-calling really necessary? Grow the fuck up

  • @mishie618
    @mishie618 Рік тому +11

    I will never ever forget being in 2nd grade watching this live in our classroom, and all of the teachers and kids, we all just cried and cried, and they let us go home early, because we were all traumatized seeing what was supposed to be amazing and exciting, a teacher going into space was such a big deal.. I will never forget my teacher shrieking when it exploded and none of the kids understood until the principal explained over the loud speaker. So heartbreaking still to this day.

  • @SniperWuff
    @SniperWuff 8 місяців тому +5

    My mom grew up in concord and she happened to be one of Christa’s students! She was watching the live verdict while she was home sick, she saw the explosion live and she was devastated for a awhile after that

  • @merricat3025
    @merricat3025 4 роки тому +213

    I remember all we heard about was Christa McAuliffe. I felt bad for the astronauts families because they weren't talked about.

    • @Gamble661
      @Gamble661 4 роки тому +31

      I felt the same way when Kobi Bryant died earlier this year, you never heard anything about the other people on that helicopter, not much anyway.

    • @azreanaibrahim2721
      @azreanaibrahim2721 4 роки тому

      I could be because family privacy.... or they want to move on

    • @anonamous365
      @anonamous365 4 роки тому +3

      She had no buisness being there

    • @judithryle2113
      @judithryle2113 4 роки тому +2

      I know. It was as if she was the only one that mattered

  • @annapineda6826
    @annapineda6826 4 роки тому +28

    I watched it live at school in 5th grade. It was 3 months after my dad died of cancer. It was a difficult time for me thinking that the families of the astronauts were now dealing with the grief that I carried with me every minute of the day. Thank you for an informative and respectful video

  • @lucyandpaige1
    @lucyandpaige1 Рік тому +10

    You know what is really sad.. for both the Challenger and the Colombia. The engineers identified issues that needed to be addressed and they were overlooked. Nobody should overlook and engineer when it comes on to things like this. Hurts to see the astronauts go out like that 😢😢😢💔💔💔

    • @jamesbarnard9710
      @jamesbarnard9710 10 місяців тому +3

      I was an engineer working on the booster parachute recovery system. I was home sick, but had tuned in to the telephone broadcast that was available in those days. I subsequently watched the replay on TV, then called my section, as they had not heard about it. It was later revealed that a NASA person had first agreed with the Morton-Thiokol booster program manager and one of the engineers that it was too cold to launch, but later overruled them and proceeded to okay the launch. IMHO, that NASA manager should have been charged with seven counts of manslaughter or even murder! In other countries, he probably would have been arrested and executed! When Columbia disintegrated on reentry, a number of NASA engineers emailed each other, thinking about requesting the Air Force image the orbiter for signs of damage from the ice that fell off the external tank on liftoff. However, they were overruled by their boss! Again, somebody should have been held responsible for that decision! NASA has had a history of arrogance, and a tendency to suffer from acute cases of "GO! fever"!!!! It has caused the deaths of 17 astronauts, including the three who died in the Apollo I fire. That, too, could have been prevented if NASA had listened to the complaints of Gus Grissom, and also thought back to the high school chemistry class experiment of placing a glowing splinter into a test tube of pure oxygen! Had they paid attention, they would have not pressurized the cabin to 2 x 14.7 psi with pure O2. And, they also would have adhered to the original design of the hatch to enable quick release. That quick release hatch was incorporated into the redesign of the Apollo command modules.
      I am hopeful, but somewhat skeptical about the approach to the Artemas program. Hopefully, we can avoid some of the mistakes of previous programs.

    • @leelunk8235
      @leelunk8235 3 місяці тому

      LUCY IMAGINE THE DISASTER IF WE DECIDED BACK THEN TO TRAVEL TO THE MOON

  • @hpowe1
    @hpowe1 Рік тому +2

    I grew up in Huntsville, AL, where much of the aerospace technology is developed and lots of testing performed. My dad worked on the Space Station, in fact. Whenever there was a launch, people would come from all over to view it. Even though they never took place from Huntsville, they would come here to be with people they had worked on projects with or share the experience of witnessing the launches with friends in the industry.
    I remember being in my 5th grade classroom and we were about to watch the launch on a newly-installed television that our teacher was given the week before. The worst kid in class was being reprimanded and was eventually kicked out and sent to the library. In all of the commotion associated with his dismissal, the teacher forgot to turn the TV on (I guess) but that kid, while in the library, saw the whole thing. He ran back to the classroom and told us the shuttle exploded. He was such a troublemaker that she thought he was lying for a laugh and was kicking him back out when someone else corroborated his story. She finally turned the TV on and we were able to see the entire event played back. It was one of the saddest days of my life.

  • @Sadarsa
    @Sadarsa 4 роки тому +74

    It wasn't just a handfull of schools that watched this....
    Schools across the country watched. I was in the 5th grade at the time, and we were glued to the TV watching as it exploded.

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 4 роки тому +2

      So was I. They gathered us all into classrooms by grade and we all watched as the shuttle went up. Nobody spoke, nobody moved. We were all just frozen in place. They sent us home early that day. There was no point in trying to conduct classes. The teachers could barely speak. They later told us the astronauts had all died instantly and that there were no remains to recover. This is the first time I'm learning that they were alive and conscious as they fell and that they actually found the bodies. It's still heartbreaking, but I'd like to think that at least some of the families were able to get some comfort from being able to bring their loved ones home.

    • @pat5star
      @pat5star 4 роки тому

      It wasn’t just “school across the country”, it was schools around the world! I was a 6th grade student in Canada and vividly remember watching this, too.

    • @kjlandon9140
      @kjlandon9140 4 роки тому

      also the gulf war. why was that a thing

  • @delagum1
    @delagum1 3 роки тому +106

    I was teaching a Math class at a university and stopped my lecture to turn on the tv so the whole class could watch. Afterwards I canceled the rest of the lecture.

  • @gaylenesanchez1170
    @gaylenesanchez1170 Рік тому +9

    I remember watching this live at home back in 1986, just graduated from Highschool, it was horrible then and still today!! Godbless and RIP all aboard the mission!! 😔

  • @joedoe-sedoe7977
    @joedoe-sedoe7977 Рік тому +48

    I will never forget the expression on Christa’s mothers face as she watch looking upward and smiling with bewilderment after the explosion totally unaware she had just lost her daughter.. no doubt later thinking “how could I let her do something so obviously foolish?”

  • @DesertVan
    @DesertVan 4 роки тому +289

    I was in third grade. The whole school was watching. Before 911 this was my “where were you” moment.

    • @tomryan914
      @tomryan914 4 роки тому +6

      Mine was , third grade, Nov. 22, 1963 !

    • @mystiquesonja2084
      @mystiquesonja2084 4 роки тому +17

      I’m 22 and don’t remember 9/11. I think these Covid months will be my “where were you moment”.

    • @kjlandon9140
      @kjlandon9140 4 роки тому +2

      tom ryan what was that like? must’ve been so crazy

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 роки тому

      @@mystiquesonja2084 Funny enough, O do with 9/11, and I'm 22 too.
      I was just returning home with mom, when I saw watched a cloud of smoke at the tv.
      It's a faint memory tho.

    • @marieantoinettescake9513
      @marieantoinettescake9513 4 роки тому +4

      And then 3 months after, the Chernobyl disaster was all you heard about in the news.

  • @kristiross2387
    @kristiross2387 3 роки тому +907

    I was in the kitchen feeding my almost 2 year old daughter watching the historic launch. It’s burned in my brain just like 9-11.

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 роки тому +5

      Yes, same here!

    • @tiffprendergast
      @tiffprendergast 3 роки тому +2

      Yup

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 роки тому +3

      @@lisamcbride8921 You both had the same 2 year old daughter?

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 роки тому +4

      @@jockoharpo2622 No my then 2nd grader was at school when 911 happend, Challenger disaster, he was not born yet, but watching it unfold on tv I was horrified!

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 роки тому +6

      That poor boy of mine , who is now 29, has seen way to much in his life so far! He was born the year Desert Storm started, then 911, he buried two grandfathers and one grandmother! Now this messed up pandemic crap! He was exposed twice and had to hunker down for two weeks both times! One time exposed just before Christmas, that was horrible, but thank the Lord he tested negative, then his boss came down with covid 19, but he tested negative with that one too! He works within the prison system here in Detroit, so I worry like crazy! He has been vaccinated and of course wears his mask all the time!

  • @giraffezebra2698
    @giraffezebra2698 11 місяців тому +24

    I was a student nurse and watched it with one of my hospital patients distantly related to one of the astronauts. I don’t recall which one. I remember hugging her and crying. I can’t imagine what Christa’s students experienced watching this from their classroom.

  • @Aviation.Safety.
    @Aviation.Safety. 10 місяців тому

    Great video and great review. Thank you!

  • @sonyagriffy
    @sonyagriffy 3 роки тому +109

    I was 15, and in class that day. All the schools participated. It was a contest and we (kids) all wanted to send our teacher. They rolled out that t.v. that day and seconds in an explosion. The teacher turned the t.v. off and it got real quiet. We were all then sent home. Truly sad day for us all and it traumatized many. RIP Christa and fellow austronauts.♥️

    • @anthonyjolly6868
      @anthonyjolly6868 3 роки тому +4

      I was 16 in music class in Junior High School here in Texas watching it on TV.The music teacher said out loud "Oh No" it blew it Up'' with her hands on her face and started crying sitting at the piano.We didn't know what really just happened. We just thought it was just smoke from the shuttle from flying. Then we found out minutes later the school principal came over the intercom and said school would be let out early due to the shuttle tragedy.

    • @alanewalton9258
      @alanewalton9258 3 роки тому +4

      I was at home in West Virginia ( snow day) watching everything on tv waiting for my Birthday cake to come out of the oven. Yes my birthday is January 28.

    • @Holytoaster
      @Holytoaster 3 роки тому +1

      Christa actually was considered an astronaut. Fun fact she was the mission specialist in charge of controlling what was called the canadarm

    • @emla15
      @emla15 3 роки тому +2

      @@alanewalton9258 Damn... It must have been sad to watch that on your birthday..

    • @KJ_PhD
      @KJ_PhD 3 роки тому

      Oh how awful

  • @allaboutBlueBerry
    @allaboutBlueBerry 4 роки тому +250

    I was on the bus, on the way to school when someone told me, “the Challenger blew up” ...I thought he meant a local restaurant we had, also named ‘the challenger’ ...I thought my cousin got blown up as he was the head cook at the restaurant. When I got to school I phoned my mom and told her Ricky’s restaurant exploded. I was so stupid.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 4 роки тому +16

      Ricky's is also the name of a restaurant in Canada, specializing in breakfasts. If I heard that Ricky's Restaurant exploded I would be really surprised. Of all places! Probably a disgruntled worker. Lots of those in Canada.

    • @ukmedicfrcs
      @ukmedicfrcs 4 роки тому +17

      @@alukuhito No, Ricky is his cousins name not the restaurant name.

    • @randominternetprofile8270
      @randominternetprofile8270 4 роки тому +15

      I used to eat at a restaurant called "Cousins" in Quebec that ironically exploded.

    • @allaboutBlueBerry
      @allaboutBlueBerry 4 роки тому +10

      w link the restaurant wasn’t named after the American mission. It just happened to have the same name!

    • @topguniceman14
      @topguniceman14 4 роки тому +18

      I'm sorry but this cracked me up. Kids are something else.

  • @mcarrusa
    @mcarrusa 8 місяців тому

    Great episode! Thanks very much

  • @tamezjohn4805
    @tamezjohn4805 Місяць тому +1

    I remember the Challenger disaster. I was in 10th grade Rockwall High Texas. It was in the morning. We were in Athletics when the head coach came to us and said we should have a moment of silence to remember the astronauts that died that day. Man does time fly. I was only 16 at that time. I'm 53 now. Wow

  • @pixie3760
    @pixie3760 3 роки тому +246

    Why would you have engineers who have studied for years to get their degrees only to ignore their advice ? It's absolutely absurd. Engineers have a knowledge that the lay person can only imagine. The whole concept of this is something I just can't fathom.

    • @estelleschneider9033
      @estelleschneider9033 3 роки тому +9

      @@HaxAras
      Those who did this knowingly are guilty of the astronauts deaths

    • @bear1586
      @bear1586 3 роки тому +3

      Having had to study this for my engineering ethics course, there a lot of reasons why the approval was still given for the challenger launch despite the warnings of the engineers. Where they good reasons? No, they were entirely selfish but not without merit. At that time, despite being the forefront of America's might, NASA had put themselves between a rock and a hard place, promising 24 launches a year. That was entirely unreasonable, but their funding and their livelihoods depended on the idea that they had to meet that quota with the space shuttle program. The media and society, as a whole not as individuals, also put peer pressure on NASA as this was the 3 or 4th delay in the Challenger launch since original launch day and it had started to become the butt of jokes. NASA was faced with ridicule of their new program and the idea of their honor/reputation, but in hindsight, the challenger did more damage to them than any more amount of delays.
      I am in no way defending what decisions where made, because they were entirely selfish, but putting yourself in the shoes of NASA, they took on more then they could handle and they knew it, but they couldn't back out because of the spotlight, the pressure, the funding, and the idea of NASA on the line if Challenger failed. Thats why the crying voices of the few fell on the deaf ears of the powerful.

    • @heathergustar638
      @heathergustar638 3 роки тому

      I can fathom it. N A S A saved twelve u s dollars on buying new o rings

    • @vudu174
      @vudu174 3 роки тому

      Egos. Sad

  • @michaelbarlow6610
    @michaelbarlow6610 3 роки тому +1210

    If the Challenger disaster had not occured, Christa McAuliffe would be 72 years old this year. R.I.P. 1986 Challenger Crew😥

    • @EVRose60
      @EVRose60 3 роки тому +22

      @@nemo2203 They likely survived the explosion. When they hit the water it was all over.

    • @Paula-kc1lu
      @Paula-kc1lu 3 роки тому +14

      @@EVRose60 I dunno about that... hitting the water that fast would be the same as hitting concrete

    • @EVRose60
      @EVRose60 3 роки тому +41

      @@Paula-kc1lu Right. That's why I said when they hit the water it was all over.

    • @markpalumbo129
      @markpalumbo129 3 роки тому +2

      She was only in her mid-20s when she was my teacher how time flies

    • @mazenbraika2069
      @mazenbraika2069 3 роки тому +8

      @@nemo2203 no, they would’ve died after hitting the water. Likely survived the explosion but smashing into water from that height is death

  • @alk3myst
    @alk3myst 10 місяців тому +2

    I was a freshman at Forest Hill High School. We were about 3 hours away from the launch. It's still shocking. May their souls be happy where they are now.

  • @robbesebesta3818
    @robbesebesta3818 5 місяців тому +1

    I was a senior at Alvin High School, just outside of Houston. I was in the athletic office and they had it on the television there. I’ll never forget it.

  • @jasonhoward9554
    @jasonhoward9554 3 роки тому +113

    I was in 2nd grade, and we were all ushered into the cafeteria/gym to watch the live feed on a TV cart. Once the explosion happened, the teachers all started crying. We were all confused, but they said nothing and told us to go outside and play. I'll remember that day for the rest of my life.

    • @dm9489
      @dm9489 3 роки тому

      Same - grade 2 but instead of being in the gym/cafeteria, the tv got wheeled into our classroom. Funny how I still remember this well so many years later. A terrible tragedy.

    • @dondark6423
      @dondark6423 3 роки тому

      So why aren't the managers in prison for gross criminal negligence resulting in manslaughter

    • @alanmaclaren4366
      @alanmaclaren4366 3 роки тому

      @@dondark6423 because it was an “accident”

    • @AthenaGM
      @AthenaGM 3 роки тому

      Me too, but back home in Puerto Rico. It was very confusing. But, I remember the teachers embracing each other and crying.😔

    • @salvitoripopadillo4539
      @salvitoripopadillo4539 3 роки тому

      @@byyykusto YES! I found another truth seeker!

  • @Simonsays90
    @Simonsays90 3 роки тому +285

    Barbara Morgan wasn’t actually a “civilian” when she flew on the shuttle. She was Christa McAuliffe’s back up and was a teacher at the time of the disaster, but when she went to space she was a full fledged astronaut. She went through the 2 year training program and was a Mission Specialist. She operated the RMS (the big boom arm used to move the payloads around) during the mission

    • @ninademci1500
      @ninademci1500 3 роки тому

      simonsays90, I didn't realize it.

    • @samsmusichub
      @samsmusichub 3 роки тому +2

      That's hella cool!

    • @israelpartisan9927
      @israelpartisan9927 3 роки тому

      Wait, do you mean the Canadarm?

    • @crystalwings4520
      @crystalwings4520 3 роки тому

      @@israelpartisan9927 It was. That shuttle arm thingy is called Canadarm.

    • @skydivejumprope
      @skydivejumprope 3 роки тому +8

      She was my 3rd grade teacher in McCall, ID. I remember watching the shuttle blow up in her class while eating astronaut ice cream. :-/ Think I still have the Challenger Crew photo with all of their signatures on it somewhere that she had gotten them to sign for me. Crap, i hope I still have it! Gee I haven't seen it in years. I better go dig around.

  • @user-oe4dk6sb5u
    @user-oe4dk6sb5u Рік тому +2

    The man who pleaded for a delay was named Bob EBELING. Not Eberling. He is an American hero who, along with other engineers, tried to stop the launch.

    • @ko7577
      @ko7577 11 місяців тому +1

      What's insane is that if they had just delayed the launch a few hours, it might have been okay. Like why would you not do that?

  • @lyndonfisher299
    @lyndonfisher299 Рік тому +4

    i will never forget it and it haunts me in dreams and memories even now. God bless the crew! I live my life for them. Bravehearts!!

  • @mariewoelfel6936
    @mariewoelfel6936 3 роки тому +166

    Krista was my 3rd grade teachers best friend so we were watching live in our classroom. I'll never forget how it impacted us watching our teacher collapse in the middle of the room when it happened.

    • @nickhalden9220
      @nickhalden9220 3 роки тому +4

      She is still alive

    • @TeleCaster66
      @TeleCaster66 3 роки тому +3

      @@nickhalden9220 I know, I wish everyone would wake up.

    • @kbcoop3249
      @kbcoop3249 3 роки тому

      Haha

    • @marissa8190
      @marissa8190 3 роки тому +23

      @@TeleCaster66 imagine telling other people to wake up when you literally believe in conspiracy theories

    • @laurencalabro3146
      @laurencalabro3146 3 роки тому +3

      That is so heartbreaking. My god. I will say her legacy lives on, even out here in Washington state. NASA did that whole crew so wrong.

  • @geoffreyhunnicutt488
    @geoffreyhunnicutt488 11 місяців тому +1

    I was in the mountain phase of Ranger School in northern Georgia. We were on patrol in the TVD when the temperature dropped to zero degrees with blowing snow. I remember the water in my canteen froze. That was coldest I have ever been. Our RIs were radioed to bring us to a warming tent for the rest of the night. Some time after that, I don't remember exactly when, we were brought into a small briefing building and told that the Challenger exploded. We resumed training. I didn't see the actual explosion of the challenger until months later. No You Tube or internet back then. It was only then when I read the full story of what happened that I put together that the unusual cold weather we had experienced is what led to the disaster.

  • @ihbarddx
    @ihbarddx 4 роки тому +120

    At the time, I worked for Martin Marietta Environmental Systems. MM had made the tank, which was basically what exploded. We watched the launch on a portable TV. After the explosion, no one said anything… for about three weeks. No one spoke socially, even after we were absolved. We were so shaken.

    • @jeremyr722
      @jeremyr722 3 роки тому +5

      That sounds awful

    • @ihbarddx
      @ihbarddx 3 роки тому +2

      @@jeremyr722 Yeah. Shoulda been there.

    • @vibes8k299
      @vibes8k299 3 роки тому +1

      ihbarddx i’m so sorry it’s really sad that people who oversee these things are the reasons tragedies like this happen

  • @jamievoller7945
    @jamievoller7945 3 роки тому +194

    I was 7 years old, right across the river from NASA, the whole school was outside. As tradition for all shuttle launches we chanted "Green for Go!" Then the teachers screaming and crying, rushing us back to our classroom. The boom of the explosion, the tears, the confusion. After a couple years I got transferred to a brand new elementary school. I am honored to say, I was one of the first students to attend "Challenger 7 Elementary School" in honor of the lives lost that tragic day

    • @Dobviews
      @Dobviews 3 роки тому +6

      I was 8 that year. I was home from school with a sinus head cold. I watched it explode on TV and just sat there in astonished silence not moving but tears streaming down my face.
      My mom came in from the kitchen and saw me bawling and said, "Oh, hunny they will be back! They are just going up for a few days."
      I tried explaining it blew up but she didn't believe me until Dan Rather came on. We both just sat on the couch in our TN home that afternoon crying holding each other. She even burnt dinner forgetting it was on the stove.
      I wept all week over it. Not sure why it hit me so hard as I was not in Christa's class or anything and didn't know anyone personally who had perished. It was my first big dose of shock and sadness at such a young age. Watching them die right in front of you from the ground looking up must have been horrible.
      Wishing you well.

    • @abaker2921
      @abaker2921 3 роки тому +3

      My school changed its mascot to the " challengers". Kinda lame looking back

    • @thresagraham8181
      @thresagraham8181 3 роки тому +1

      What a memory,of history, so tragic, I am not even American and cannot remember, if I saw this on TV in realism, I kinda doubt it but whenever I did see it, every now and again I randomly think about what happened and how it felt in those few mins then ever after for their families.. courage at its best, in my opinion. 😞😞✌️

    • @SnowFamilyOf4
      @SnowFamilyOf4 3 роки тому +2

      Thank you for sharing that. I was 10 years old watching in my class at school.

    • @jodibonds
      @jodibonds 3 роки тому +1

      @Jamie Voller Titusville?

  • @edmondlau511
    @edmondlau511 Рік тому +22

    I was in second grade and remember getting home to see my mom watching it on TV.

  • @donaldmcauliffe7653
    @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 роки тому +733

    My cousin lost his wife his children lost their mother. The children are grow up now but still have pain in their heart
    This should never have happened

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 роки тому +48

      @Jeff Larocque l dont understand you

    • @tigergreg8
      @tigergreg8 4 роки тому +48

      @@donaldmcauliffe7653 He doesn't believe you are related to the Mcauliffe family.

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 роки тому +60

      @@tigergreg8 l am a McAuliffe

    • @npeace312
      @npeace312 4 роки тому +35

      I am so sorry. Breaks my heart.

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 роки тому +47

      @@npeace312 l remember how the children felt they are my cousins. It should never happened

  • @bryceirwin9919
    @bryceirwin9919 4 роки тому +125

    My mother knew another school teacher who was trying to get on The Challenger, she said when the rocket crashed he was visibly shaken over what happened to Christina

    • @lavenderflowersfall280
      @lavenderflowersfall280 4 роки тому +3

      Probably but what she was really thinking, "thank the Lord God I wasn't on that spaceship"

    • @gerardcowan155
      @gerardcowan155 4 роки тому +9

      Could you imagine being mad u didn't get picked then to see what happened I'd be sick

    • @elijahculper5522
      @elijahculper5522 4 роки тому +6

      Gerard Cowan
      My high school biology teacher was one of the teachers who was on the shortlist. Once she talked about being frustrated that a social studies teacher was going instead of a science teacher because she thought the mission would have more applications in a science classroom. It was something that really shook her up. When she discussed it, it was clear that it still haunted her.

    • @jamesanderson6373
      @jamesanderson6373 4 роки тому

      Who is Christina?

    • @jamesanderson6373
      @jamesanderson6373 4 роки тому +2

      You mean Christa?

  • @lanagorgeous9485
    @lanagorgeous9485 Рік тому +1

    I was a young 2LT citing in a classroom at our Officer's Basic Course, when our course guide 1LT Vargo came into the class and informed us all. It was devastating news. I remember listening to Reagan that evening, and honoring their memory. As a young officer being trained to lead in combat, we knew if if a war started during our career, loss of life would be an unfortunate reality, so losing these courageous Americans, although a peaceful mission still really hit home. Listening to Reagan that evening was reassuring.

  • @user-yb2qy6gu7x
    @user-yb2qy6gu7x 8 місяців тому +2

    I'm an aerospace engineer, listen to us when we give failure specs within certain conditions. If people at NASA listened these heros would still be with us

  • @bieassialaw6832
    @bieassialaw6832 4 роки тому +237

    I was one of the many elementary school children watching this when the shuttle exploded. It was sad then and sad today 🥺

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 роки тому +22

      So was I! We were all so messed up by it - kids were crying and screaming and completely freaking out. Imagine being a teacher, trying to deal with your 4th grade class who has just witnessed this...

    • @Prettywhite4awhiteguy
      @Prettywhite4awhiteguy 4 роки тому +15

      Same, I was only 7 at the time but I remember it all very clearly

    • @jdbarr769
      @jdbarr769 4 роки тому +4

      @@neuralmute We were 5th grade.

    • @PipimiOden
      @PipimiOden 4 роки тому +6

      @Egg T cause everything IS scary

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 роки тому +7

      @Egg T You kids don't live in reality, or know the value of human life.

  • @gopdiva
    @gopdiva 3 роки тому +672

    I went to high school with Greg Jarvis. He was the payload specialist and civilian on the flight. I was teaching science in Houston when it happened and was looking forward to inviting Greg to my science class. Sadly, that was to never happen. I called NASA and identified myself and asked to attend the memorial service. I had to drive to the Space Center to get a pass for the memorial the next day. We were directed to a parking lot where a bus was waiting for us. A lady boarded the bus and sat next to me. It was Marsha Chaffee, whose husband had perished in a fire on the launch pad in 1967. When we reached security we were asked if we were friends, family, or employees. Marsha said none of the above. I became protective of her and told them who she was. They said we should sit with the astronauts. I was introduced to many present and former astronauts that day. We hung in every word of President Reagan which was somehow healing.

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 роки тому +4

      Oh We were never informed what Greg Jarvis was. Was he one of the crew of the SPace Shuttle Columbia?

    • @shannonpharr1451
      @shannonpharr1451 3 роки тому +14

      Oh wow that just brought tears to my eyes thank you for your story and bless you as well

    • @gopdiva
      @gopdiva 3 роки тому +23

      @@shannonpharr1451 Thank you, Shannon. There are mini stories I can share. Greg was supposed to go up on the previous flight but got bumped by a Congressman which put him on the fateful flight. My mom had had a heart attack and watched it live. She is the reason I went to the memorial. She called me and encouraged me to go. It all happened very quickly but I was meant to be there. She wanted me to go to represent Greg because she was friends with his parents. One of the astronauts I sat with was Bruce McCandless. He was famous for the picture of him flying without a a tether. Sadly, he passed away in 2017 at the age of 80.

    • @judydelisle5290
      @judydelisle5290 3 роки тому +3

      @@gopdiva good story🙏💕

    • @BJenny38
      @BJenny38 3 роки тому +6

      Thank you for your memories! I loved reading your account. Ignore that Jocko. He left 5 hateful replies to my comment.

  • @ninaharper6282
    @ninaharper6282 Рік тому

    I do remember. I was in my 2nd year of college, and I was in Speech class when we heard the news. So very sad. I learned a lot about the tragedy from your video. Thanks.

  • @daaphenom01
    @daaphenom01 Місяць тому +2

    I was 10 years old. School was cancelled that day because it was too cold, 2 degrees in South East Michigan. My mom took my sister and I to the mall. We were in Hudsons, they kept showing it on large screen TVs. My first true where were you moment.

  • @jimsmith8797
    @jimsmith8797 3 роки тому +845

    The ones that said it’s fine and had no regard for the engineers advice, should be charged with manslaughter

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 роки тому +13

      That is a very stupid statement. People make mistakes, no one can hold judgement on another human being except the almighty God. I pray if you're still living you will change your life if you haven't yet.

    • @peachcash709
      @peachcash709 2 роки тому +90

      @@sarawiddle6094 oh shut up

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 роки тому +2

      Peach, I hope you change your life to.

    • @meowky4001
      @meowky4001 2 роки тому +56

      @@sarawiddle6094 yes shut up

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 роки тому +2

      Flo low, first of all, your name is really stupid. I don't know how you got your name or how you think it's a cool name because it's not. It's far from a cool name and your comment is also almost as stupid as your name. Secondly, I hope you get some help because, you really need some psychiatric help. But before you get the psychiatric help,I hope you pray to God and ask him for forgiveness of any sins you may have committed and you ask him to be your Lord and savior because you really need him. Please do the following that I have suggested. Have a nice day.

  • @Reignor99
    @Reignor99 3 роки тому +125

    The netflix documentary on this had me in tears.
    The teacher was such a wholesome lady, she baked an apple pie for the other female astronaut when they first met.

    • @thealaskanforever
      @thealaskanforever 3 роки тому +2

      What’s the documentary called

    • @KushClarkKent
      @KushClarkKent 3 роки тому +5

      @@thealaskanforever Challenger: The Final Flight

    • @TeleCaster66
      @TeleCaster66 3 роки тому +2

      Don't feel badly, she's still alive.

    • @nobodyatallvallejo3672
      @nobodyatallvallejo3672 3 роки тому

      @@TeleCaster66 how did she survive the explosion? 🧐

    • @Lion-mu7vu
      @Lion-mu7vu 3 роки тому +3

      @@nobodyatallvallejo3672 Nah he’s just a looney

  • @ShadowsPast316
    @ShadowsPast316 Рік тому

    Great Video!

  • @user-vn8tx8ro1e
    @user-vn8tx8ro1e 10 місяців тому

    I was an elementary teacher in Titusville, FL and watched the launch and Space Shuttle Challenger disaster with all our school faculty and students from outside our school building that VERY cold morning in Florida. It was a very sad day as our school families had family members who worked for NASA from the Cape and that day was forever marked in our lives. Going to the site on our way to Playalinda Beach would forever change the solemn reminder of those astronauts and their families who lost their lives!

  • @John-cy9nf
    @John-cy9nf 4 роки тому +235

    I was in grade school when this happened it was mind blowing that this could happen and I honestly felt sad for a few days thinking about those people who died. I think I was no more than 8 years old. When i recently visited NASA all I could think about during the tour was Challenger. So Sad

    • @mikedlc9766
      @mikedlc9766 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/4TJVhdPtEkE/v-deo.html

    • @joesigl3022
      @joesigl3022 4 роки тому

      comic guy I forget where I was, probably just doing whatever. The moral of the story is, “Better them than me”.

    • @tharshope8203
      @tharshope8203 4 роки тому +2

      I watched in English class--

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 4 роки тому +1

      Does "grade school" mean "elementary school"?

    • @crystalwings4520
      @crystalwings4520 4 роки тому

      @@mikedlc9766 No one cares

  • @zechariahsmith9347
    @zechariahsmith9347 3 роки тому +230

    Managers shouldn't be allowed to overrule the effing engineers of the dam thing.

    • @Notoriousnipple
      @Notoriousnipple 3 роки тому +6

      Happens all the time. Especially in the corporate world.

    • @matrix9452
      @matrix9452 3 роки тому

      Welcome to the 21st century.

    • @oneoldgit
      @oneoldgit 3 роки тому +3

      Neither should Presidents and Prime Ministers overrule epidemic experts

    • @hanknorris5642
      @hanknorris5642 3 роки тому

      @@oneoldgit yeah, I wish we had some of those epidemic experts you speak of.

    • @almac2598
      @almac2598 3 роки тому

      @@hanknorris5642 Don't forget, an expert is only the guy who is one page ahead of you in the book.

  • @twistedyogert
    @twistedyogert Рік тому +1

    The fact that Big Bird could've been on there is even more disturbing knowing how many kids would've been watching Sesame Street if he had.
    It's heart breaking that this tragedy could've been avoided if NASA had waited a few months for spring.

  • @joys9791
    @joys9791 Рік тому +1

    I was in the 5th grade in Houston, Tx and my school was watching live. Ron McNair was a Sunday school teacher at my church too. A couple years ago, one of my students parents showed my class a picture of herself holding one of Ron’s children because she was the family’s babysitter.

  • @chrisdooley6468
    @chrisdooley6468 4 роки тому +129

    I was horrified watching this in school. I remember even back then being a huge space buff and feeling so sick to my stomach afterwards that I didn’t pick up a book or watch a space show for months. Sad time for everyone

    • @cfruge444
      @cfruge444 4 роки тому +1

      My mom was pregnant with me and saw it when she was having carpet laid.

    • @stacyrussell460
      @stacyrussell460 4 роки тому +2

      We watched it from our school as well. At first we thought that was how liffoffs happened. Then adults started crossing themselves & crying. So sad.

    • @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS
      @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS 3 роки тому +1

      SpaceCamp movie was delayed cuz of this too

    • @virginiaconnor8350
      @virginiaconnor8350 3 роки тому

      @@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS A ride at 6 Flags Over Ga. was renamed too. I'd be really pissed off if some group decided their monument was deemed "wrong" somehow and taken down.

  • @richardgibson3160
    @richardgibson3160 4 роки тому +509

    How come no one went to prison for gross negligence and/ or involuntary man slaughter?

    • @chevyon37s
      @chevyon37s 4 роки тому +86

      Because it’s a government program.

    • @aerofiles5044
      @aerofiles5044 4 роки тому +12

      @@chevyon37s well nasa itself is a civilian program

    • @robertlaube574
      @robertlaube574 4 роки тому +20

      For what? she knew what she was risking, they all did.

    • @bepythebear2077
      @bepythebear2077 4 роки тому +3

      NASAs beginnings include
      Warnher von Braun
      Who wasn't just a Nazi war criminal he was an SS man....
      No one at nasa is going to be accountable for fuck all !

    • @garage9283
      @garage9283 4 роки тому +6

      Bepy The Bear ohmanwhatanidiotyouare

  • @TaharkahX
    @TaharkahX Рік тому +2

    I remember this. I was too young to really understand the magnitude of the disaster. I remember people being devastated.