The Grim Truth About The Challenger's Remains
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2024
- Explorers off the Florida coast are almost certain to forever be reminded of one of the greatest tragedies in space travel history. They've been finding pieces of the Challenger Space Shuttle for nearly 40 years.
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What was your initial reaction while watching the Challenger launch?
Pure horror 😳💔🙏
I was in my 5th grade class watching this live on tv... while in shock from the explosion, I thought "My dream died right then & there. I no longer want to be an astronaut" 😥😥😥
I was in 8th grade and we were shocked. As Gen X, the forgotten kids, trauma or even us being valid humans wasn't a thing yet. So....the TV wheeled out and back to class we went
The truth is that the entire crew was alive until their section hit the water....so part of that video is them falling from the sky at a rapid speed about to die on impact
Surprise and wondering if the orbiter was able to escape and attempt a landing.
Small TV at work it was not immediately apparent that it was totally destroyed.
I had worked midnight's, got up just before the launch. Use to walk out in my back yard and see them go up. This day I was watching and saw the split. Knew right away it wasn't right. Turned on the TV and heard the report. A sad day for America, the space program, the NASA workers and the families of the crew
I had just started my Naval Career at the Naval Amphibious Base in Little Creek Virginia, and my unit was in recess on that tragic morning. A couple o' days later were cancelled recess and deployed to conduct the recovery/ salvage operation. It lasted til the end of June... I'll NEVER forget that horrible experience. It ended my innocence.😢
Some crew members were definetly alive upon impact. Their manual switches for individual oxygen support were in the "on" position. They must have done that after the explosion. The crew cabin was largely intact after the shuttle broke apart according to many documentaries. What killed them was the impact. Their bodies were shattered inside their suits. Flesh and bones. A parachute would have soften the impact and its very likely, some would have survived. The parachute was removed for cost limitations. NASA's recklessness is responsible.
I read that also. Something 5 of the 7 had turned on their oxygen support .
Each astronaut had a personal recorder.
That is crazy that happened 40 years ago…I still remember being in my high school science class and our teacher told us the shuttle exploded and he was in a state of shock.
They actually wheeled out a TV to our class and showed it live. I was in the 5th grade. They allowed us to watch it because a teacher was part of the crew. It messed us up watching it explode.
It didn't explode.
What’s so grim about that? The grim part is recovering the decomposing remains of the astronauts or pieces of their bodies when the crew cabin impacted the water at 200 mph.
I never knew that there are still that many missing parts from the shuttle.
They were extraordinary. I admire them so much. They chose to live their dreams, and it takes courage and dedication to do so.
It doesn’t take courage tho
Being an astronaut (even in the 80’s) is probably safer than being a taxi driver or construction worker
The real tragedy is that NASA knew the cold would weaken the O-ring seals and cause them to fail. They were warned and still proceeded.
President Reagan was giving his state of union address that night and was going to mention the teacher in space and boost NASA's image and the rest is history.
I watched this live.
Me too. I was 7.
Me as well.
I didn’t, but I saw it minutes later after our science teacher came into the classroom, and told us what happened.
Yup…saw it as a kid and my teachers’ reactions scarred me for life….
@@trekerrymartin5611 It was shown to all class rooms because the teacher was onboard
Not sure why but I thought the crew instantly died and disintegrated 🥴
The reality was horrific
They say it was the fall the initially killed them. It was also just brought to my attention that the didn't find the cabin till March, over a mouth after the tragic advent
The unfortunate truth is that a cold weather launch and a piece of foam cost fourteen lives and that NASA chose to ignore repeated warnings that the astronauts on both Challenger and Columbia were in serious danger.
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 when this happened. I was 12 and in our middle school
library with my classmates. we watched the shuttle take off and then
explode. we were all in shock after it happened. R.I.P. to everyone
who lost their lives that fateful day in 1986.
1986 was a bad year.
They were ALIVE all the way down until impact on the ocean.... I heard the flight recorder (black box)... I was there...since the beginning of the operation til the end.
I remember I was a junior in high school in English class and the news came over the loud speaker. We were all excited about the space shuttle taking off and then we received the tragic news. I remember it like it was yesterday. What a shame that happened to all those people.
The sad part my whole 6th grade class sat there and watched the shuttle explode during flight myself and classmates were shocked and devastated 😢
I was in 6th grade at the time too...all these years later I never forgot the look on my teacher's face as her eyes fill with tears and she ran out to the girl's bathroom to compose herself.
I’ve read most of the astronauts survived the explosion, only to be killed as the shuttle plummeted to earth and splashed into the ocean. So horrible!🙏
I SAW THE EXPLOSION.
AT WORK OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT.
THE CREW DIDN'T DIE IN THE EXPLOSION. THEY SURVIVED AND DIED WHEN THEY HIT THE WATER. RIP.
I was working in Orlando and we heard over the radio there had been an explosion. We all ran outside and saw the cloud and vapor trails, it felt like it was right above us. I remember thinking, "Look at this and remember." Very sad.
It so heartbreaking that 7 Astronauts (including teacher Christina Mc Calleth passed away on this date in 1986.
Not to mention Christa McAuliffe, who died on Jan. 28, 1986
@@johnnyelizabethtonThat's literally who they were talking about.
@@Infinite-void908 Not literally, since the name and date were wrong.
If the cabin simply had a parachute, could the astronauts have survived?
No. Some probably died during the initial explosion. If any survived that then the impact of slamming into the ocean at several hundreds of miles per hour would surely ended their lives.
A parachute would only be useful and work properly if the craft was stable. This suffered an explosion so was hurtling out of control, making deploying a parachute impossible.
The jury is still out. Many believe they could have survived if equipped with a chute.
This could have been prevented.
I watched the challenger launch live at my girlfriends apartment with her grandmother!
I lived in Port St. Lucie, FL when it happened. The launch was pending, so I went outside waiting to hopefully see it. We were about 60 miles down range from Cape Canaveral. I got tired of waiting, went inside. When I turned the TV on after a few minutes, it showed that the Challenger had exploded. I ran back outside and looked up. The cloud of smoke it left looked kind of like a claw in three parts. I was shocked, and my Mom was at the dentist. She was in the dental chair when one of the girls that worked in the office came in with a blank, bewildered look on her face, and just said “It blew up” in shock. Very sad day.
🙁😞I’d seen the Apollo rockets 🚀 take off while I was growing up as a kid there. Always spectacular. You could see a bright orange ball of fire beneath the rocket, even from our location. The shuttle takeoffs just looked more like two orange streaks next to each other going up, but still enjoying to watch. To the crew of the Challenger: Your country loves you and will never forget you. Thank you for your courage and eagerness to explore space. God Bless you. RIP. 🫡🇺🇸
Wow 😂
Crew were alive the whole way down. They died when the crew cabin hit the water. All the bodies were recovered a few weeks later!
I read the "unofficial" transcript online somewhere of the cockpit's voice recording detailing what crewmembers were saying to one another on the descent down prior to hitting the water. Sad...just sad.
@@BPD1586what kind of things were they saying to each other?
@@BPD1586That's fake. Been floating around in tabloids since the disaster.
@@Nighthawk268 Hence the caveat...
@@BPD1586 I think Christa had a personal voice recorder with her to help record her experience with her students. However since it took so long to recover the bodies, it was destroyed by the ocean.
I remember this very well I was in 11th grade when this occurred
I remember being in sixth grade when this happened
stayed home that day from school 6th grade just to watch it.. horrible results
The astronaut remains were transported in garbage cans.
What happened to Challenger Space Shuttle was errily similar to what is plaguing Boeing now - concerns from the technical experts and engineers were ignored by the management. Back then the NASA management were a bunch of techno-illiterates who just wanted to push the missions.
When it exploded the crew module was intact and was that way till it hit the ocean. So yea, they were alive quite a while after the explosion. Don’t forget that after the explosion most of the parts were still going up, then lost velocity then came down. I wondered why some sort of parachute system was not used on the crew module. Had one been designed into the shuttle they might have lived.
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Challenger 1st in 1986 & Columbia 2nd in 2003.
Two space shuttles have exploded, the Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003, killing 14 astronauts in total. The Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff due to a fuel system leak, causing the booster rockets to separate. The Columbia exploded about 16 minutes before its expected landing due to damage to the heat shielding, causing it to melt on re-entry.
How do you figure the barnacles covered the wing flap in the early morning hours?
If you were trying to be funny. You failed. They spotted it in the early morning and it was covered in barnacles.
Man made
86th
how did they ever make it to the moon? luck?
They didn’t go to the moon in the Shuttle.
They didn't...
The next day they thought a piece of Ron McNair washed up on the beach.... It was just an old radiator hose off a 56 Chevy.
Sacrifice 😂 relax they didn’t walk on water
No one ever walk on water, son !
@@JohnHausseryou should read the Bible. Jesus and Peter both walked on water.
@@gs1100edOh!! You were there?!?! What was it like?!?!
I wanted to watch the documentary on the Challenger disaster but I only saw bits and pieces.
Heard that the crew got to go on holidays after the explosion, all over Florida!
Did you know that the crew didn't have to shower before the flight? I guess they washed up on shore.
Speaking of shore, did you know how they found out Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders on the beach!
She had nice blue eyes. One blew this way and the other blew that way!
When she said goodbye to her husband I guess she said "you feed the dog and I'll feed the fish".
Her last words were "What does this button do?"
Do you know what went through her mind during the explosion? A piece of metal about "--" this big!
They thought they found Ronald McNair's arm but it turned out to be a radiator hose from a '57 chevy.
I guess they did find his hand though, it was in Christa McAuliffe's purse.
Did you know that NASA has a new space drink? Ocean Spray - It was their second choice because they couldn't
get 7-UP.
NASA - need another seven astronauts.
WTF is wrong with you?? An accident with all the people killed is not a joking matter. You are disgusting and a jerk to boot. STF.
Sad loser
Good lord, what a string
Is that a compilation of shit you've heard over the years, or are you just committed to the craft? The...space...craft?
What a sad, pointless life you must lead.
@@Lunafalls How many shuttle astronauts can you fit in a Volkswagen? Eleven - two in the front, two in the back, and seven in the ashtray!
You obviously weren't alive back when the Challenger exploded or lived in a hole somewhere. These shuttle jokes were just as much a part of this ordeal back then as anything else. This was of course back in the day where you could tell jokes without someone getting offended. There was even a national flooring store that had signs made that said "“Shuttle in for explosive prices!”. You couldn't get away from them so pretending they didn't happen is just a disservice to history.