How was Ronald Reagan accusedly by you, a controversial president. Is this because he was a Republican that did a damn good job and you lack anything really to say other that he might have been the most important president since Abraham Lincoln. Just sayin. Might want to hide your obvious bias. This was patheticly low and speaks volumes of what you really are.
Aren't almost all accidents?? The biggest tragedy is that 7 brilliant, ambitious, pioneering, inspiring minds suffered horrific deaths & crashed into the ocean. They are just as dead as if someone sabotaged the mission on purpose.
I REMEMBER SEEING AFTER THE BREAKUP OF THE CHALLENGER THOSE TWO PARACHUTES DESCENDING TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BELOW & FOR A MOMENT THERE WAS HOPE THAT TWO OF THE CREW HAD SURVIVED BUT THOSE HOPES WERE DASHED WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT THOSE PARACHUTES WERE THE PARACHUTES FOR THE NAVY RECOVERY CREWS OR PARAMEDICS THAT WERE SENT IN ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@pocho689 ROGER BOISJOLY DID & DID HIS BEST TO PREVENT THE LAUNCH & HE WAS THE ENGINEER WHO WORKED FOR MORTON THIOKOL WHO WERE THE COMPANY WHO MADE THE SHUTTLE'S SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS BUT HE ALONG WITH OTHER ENGINEERS WERE SHOUTED DOWN & OVER RIDDEN BY THE NASA MANAGERS & AT THE END OF THE DAY A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN A ROOM DECIDED TO LAUNCH ON 28th JANUARY 1986 DESPITE ALL OF THE ENGINEERING DATA & EVIDENCE THE THIOKOL ENGINEES HAD IN THEIR POSSESSION ON O-RING PERFORMANCE (OR THE LACK THEREOF ! ! !) IN VERY COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS ! ! ! NASA ALSO DOWNPLAYED & LIED ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS A VEHICLE THE SHUTTLE REALLY WAS & ESPECIALLY WITH THE SHUTTLE'S CRITICALITY ITEM-1 ISSUES/FAILURES THAT COULD HAVE LED TO LOSS OF CREW & VEHICLE (LOCV IN NASA JARGON). THERE WAS ALSO THE POLITICAL DIMENSION, BEAUROCACY & LAUNCH SCHEDULE PRESSURE TO GET THE SHUTTLE LAUNCHED ON TIME ! ! ! WHEN YOU BOIL IT ALL DOWN IT TURNS OUT THAT JUST ONE PHONE CALL COULD & WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE LAUNCH THAT DAY ON 28th JANUARY 1986 & YET THAT PHONE CALL NEVER CAME ! ! !🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
No one at home knew. NASA knew of the issues and knew a nation full of kids was watching, but still let it happen. They knew the O rings were compromised because of the cold weather. They still launched.
The real tragedy was the loss of the second shuttle. There was a Doctor of Sciences on board. There are less than 100 of those in the USA. Almost impossible to replace.
AgreeD, from what I’ve read about him he was a well accomplished person with a lot of hobbies and interests, a bit of a renaissance man. I met him, back in 1985, when he came to the junior high my dad was principal at, to give presentations to the students. I was around 8 at the time, and super shy, and don’t remember much about meeting him in dad’s office, aside from being very nice and a bit imposing (to a young-in like me) in his blue NASA flight suit and jacket, all covered in patches. I’ve got pics buried away of me walking alongside him going from class to class, and my biggest memory was when he gave his talk in the school auditorium, and talked about being an astronaut and what his previous flight was like. He mentioned liking to eat scrambled eggs and how he’d bat them into his mouth in zero g, and his reply to the number one question the students had: how you use the toilet in space. 😊 RIP to the crew of Challenger.
I was a little bit shocked when I started hearing Christa McAuliffe jokes and other kinds of sick humor about the challenger disaster not very long after the accident but looking back on it I like to think humor is one kind of way some people deal with
It was horrible for us kids to watch. There weren't any safe spaces. We didn't get 1 word of how to deal with any of it. We were sent back to class and open your textbook to page blah blah and life went on. We were stunned and just went on.
My sister was one of the many second-phase alternates being considered for the program. She had a teaching personality similar to Christa McAuliffe. It didn't hit me until local news did an interview with her that, had things turned out differently, I would have lost my sister that day. Feeling sad about a sister that I _didn't_ lose, I can only imagine what Christa's family went through.
Ty 4 shining a light on this beautiful star 🌟 STILL shining in the night sky. My brother's monument is about 50 yards from the Challengers in Arlington National Cemetery. (Navy 3-21-1991) ✨️✈️🌟🌠🌟❤🙏🏻
One of the worst photos is the evidence photos of the rubber O-rings. All wet and deteriorated. Even a layman can tell those should be out of commission. No silicone was gonna save those rubber O-rings.
I was pregnant working at a Holiday Inn in Anderson Indiana when this happened!! I remember. I was cleaning a room had the TV in an just watched the dam thing blow😮😮😮
I was right across the river when this happened. Saw it happen. Govt and tech doesnt care about human lives. They brought us outside to watch it and then they brought us back in the classroom and turned the tvs on and basically made us watch it. All of us 5 year old kids.
The best part of this video for me is hearing that all pf her studentscwebt on to become teachers. She really did achieve one of the things she set out to do ❤ RIP ❤
Like many others, I remember this well. I was 24 at the time and watched the explosion live. FM, i was floored. The when it came out that NASA was warned by Morton Thiokol not to launch! OMG... But as usual, nothing happened to the individules that gave the green light. I was looking forward to the Teacher in Space segments. RIP Christa and crew.
Not many people are aware of another space related tragedy that involved Christa McAuliffe. In 1985, McAuliffe and the rest of the top 10 finalists of the Teachers in Space program were touring the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama and were on board a centrifuge ride which simulated G forces that occur on the body during rocket launches. During the ride, one of the Space Center employees accidently fell into the spinning machinery and was killed. Apparently, his mangled body was flung and landed only a few feet from McAuliffe and she and the other candidates were understandably traumatized and devastated. They were quickly escorted out of the park and sent back to their hotel rooms and traveled to Washington DC the next day for another PR event. Not surprisingly, NASA tried to bury the story at the time and most of the local press only briefly mentioned it in a couple of paragraphs and did not reveal that the Teachers in Space were present. However, there are a few articles, including an archived piece from the Chicago Tribune that mention the whole story. I also found a podcast online where one of the Teachers in Space candidates talks about the incident. I personally know more about it as I went to high school with the guy that died and knew his family.
The series on Netflix is very informative. At first I'm like "yeah NASA is to blame...ok🙄" then the facts are laid out and it's found out twice NASA has overlooked safety and shuttles were lost with all souls.
I had just started a two week vacation and I watched the TV as I packed. It took my breath away when it exploded, and I felt so bad for the loved ones left behind.
KALPANA CHAWLA WHO WAS ON THE STS-107 COLUMBIA MISSION IN 2003 HAD A PREMONITION SHE WAS NOT GOING TO RETURN HOME FROM SPACE ALIVE ! ! ! I WONDER NOW IF CHRISTA McAULIFFE HAD SIMILAR PREMONITIONS ABOUT NOT SURVIVING A SPACE FLIGHT ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I was in 11th grade and we had a snow day on this day so we weren't in school watching it but i know we watched it together during the week when we went back.
Nice vid. Gotta say though we spoil kids too much with the "trama" nonesense, just TALK TO THEM, and have that "adult moment" Geez we act like trama only exists now. It was very common back in the past. What makes all the difference is having an adult who can properly explain things, [See 80s era Land before time adult dio talking to longneck that lost mom as exmaple] we have too many who can't function as adults these days which is far worse the "tramaized" kids, and those with healthy brains will process it as that boy or girl did. Of course their is single event trama like this, and abuse trama which is all together different.
More information should have been communicated about the other crew members with continued reminders and remembrances just as those for McAuliffe. Such as epic loss for their families & the country
Those other astronauts needed to stop bitching... Program needed a spark... You brought a lot of cash in... That helps if they want to continue the space program where they have awesome salaries...
NASA was under a ton of pressure to get the launch off because McAuliffe wouldn't be able to teach her lesson on a weekday if they'd left one day later.
When she was chosen by NASA, her father called the company I was working with, to inquire about preserving all of her clothing and training gear. I answered the phone and had no idea of TEACHER IN SPACE ? My Boss (Mentor) looks at me and I write down FATHER OF FIRST CITIZEN IN SPACE? He was a great man to work with, he writes FREE! FREE! FREE! We ended up bringing in a TV into work to watch the launch, how sad…
I remember watching this in my 5th grade classroom. I remember the silence after understanding that we saw an explosion, and watching the coverage on television from home after school. Without intention, I remember the Challenger disaster every year on 1/28.
I bet the school in California does not know that that is not her first name. I don’t say this willy-nilly. I built it. I’ve worked there many times I guarantee nobody there knows.
Morton Thiokol warned NASA that those O-Rings were only rated for temperatures above 53 degrees fahrenheit. The temperature that day was around 28 degrees and high winds. MT refused to sign off on the launch, until word got to them that they would not get anymore contracts.
A lot of people don't realize that they didn't die when the ship exploded. They died when they hit the water. That may have taken a couple minutes. So I'm sure they all knew it was coming. I can't think of anything more horrifying.
Jealousy is an unnecessary feeling. The fact that the others looked down on her just shows the mindset of murka then. Childish, ignorant and selfish. It's ironic she was the only one really talked about during this disaster. Hypocrisy??
The others did not look down on her. However, if you had been training for a flight for years, only to be bumped off the flight by someone who had only been chosen to fly 6 months earlier, it is not surprising that there was a little bit of resentment. The others were not against Christa MacAuliffe personally and I am sure they liked her. Setting that aside however, she and the others were killed to launch satellites that should have been launched on an uncrewed rockets. That would have been far safer and cheaper too, The Shuttle was nowhere near as cheap to fly as had been hoped.
I was in 2nd grade at the time. It was a small church school, so my class was the 1st and 2nd grade class. But I didn't get to see it live because my teacher went to see it in the 5th and 6th grade room, while my class was doing our class assignments. All of the sudden my teacher came bursting into the classroom and informed us about the explosion. One of my classmates, not understanding the shuttle only launched in Florida, asked why we didn't feel the explosion. My teacher than gathered us in a circle to pray for the families of the astronauts. She was weeping while she was pray, since her dad worked for NASA at the time. My reaction wasn't of sorrow or concern at the time, since I didn't know anything about the Teacher in Space Program, even though my dad who was also a teacher was paying attention to it. It was around the time the TV show Airwolf was airing and I enjoyed seeing the different ways those aircraft would explode when the copter destroyed them, since no one really was killed. So when I got home I was anxious to see how the shuttle exploded. When I finally saw it I thought it was neater than what I saw on Airwolf, especially the boosters flying out of control. When my dad saw I was gloating and smiling, he scolded me and had to remind me this was not an Airwolf show and that seven people really died.
Not to downplay Christa McAuliffe's role, but the truth is that a teacher was in space 12 years before her scheduled flight. William Pogue, a member of the final Skylab crew video recorded science lessons inside the weightless Skylab that were later shown in schools in the U.S. Pogue had taught university courses before his Skylab flight.
Yes. The main distinction is that McAuliffe was a civilian teacher plucked from the classroom to go to space on the Challenger Shuttle. Pogue, by contrast, was an Air Force pilot who, I believe, piloted a NASA Mission.
@@zplapplap And Barbara Morgan, the (lucky) runner up to McAuliffe for the Challenger mission, was a teacher from Fresno, Ca. When she finally went up, she also recorded lessons to be shown later, after the crew safely returned. That was done to dampen fears by viewers of a possible repeat episode. She also was called the Education Specialist, not teacher in space. NASA clearly was not interested is using her as a charismatic persona. She just quietly got the job done. I believe that underscores one of the problems with NASA that caused the 1986 catastrophe - too much PR, not enough realism. And in the years after the Challenger disaster, Morgan was trained in aviation and became a jet pilot.
@@brianarbenz1329 The amount of attention generated by Christina McAuliffe is hard to overstate. Shuttle missions had become ordinary. Special, but frequent enough that there was no interest in breaking into the school day to show launches and landings. This one particular doomed Challenger mission was the exception. I was a 10 year old 5th grader on January 28, 1986. The months long build-up to launch compared to an ordinary launch was like the difference between the Super Bowl and a week 3 Monday night game. Of all launches to fail, there could not have been a moment of greater impact in the history of the shuttle program. I watched in my classroom, went home in a silent daze, and watched the television coverage from home. Of all the shuttle missions to possibly fail . . .
@@zplapplap A wider problem was that the whole Shuttle program was looking irrelevant and not nearly worth the cost. In the early 1970s NASA had said Shuttles would be making 30 flights per year, and that this would bring down the enormous cost of using satellites and running space stations. This was inflated hype, and speaking of inflated: the cost of a single Shuttle mission was about $500 million by the mid-1990s. Whereas the Shuttle proved itself by making the ISS construction far smoother, in the '80s it qualified as a boondoggle. And NASA and the CEO of Morton Thiokol feared Congress was going to scrap the program because of constant delays. The previous Shuttle launch had been delayed several times, pushing it into mid-January, and the Challenger's launch with Christa was also delayed at least once. Though Morton Thiokol engineers strongly pushed to delay the launch again, the company's CEO from Utah and NASA officials pressed for a launch, wanting to avoid having the program appear stalled. Moreover, the Reagan Administration believed trumpeting Christa's lessons would distract attention from his proposed cuts in federal education aid. It was show-over-substance.
I was a little bit shocked when I started hearing Christa McAuliffe jokes and other kinds of sick humor about the challenger disaster not very long after the accident but looking back on it I like to think humor is one kind of way some people deal with terrifying incidents⚛️
My friend is a High School Teacher. She has to buy supplies for low income students out od her own money. One day the AC at school was broken so she came in with a big fan she bought. A kid threw it at her. They had a meeting with her- the kid and his parents and SHE got in trouble b/c she didn't ask the schools permission yet...smh
Our teacher wheeled in a t.v. and made us watch this live because it had a teacher on it. "Hey kids, do you want to watch 7 people die in an explosion?"
Rest In Peace.
How was Ronald Reagan accusedly by you, a controversial president.
Is this because he was a Republican that did a damn good job and you lack anything really to say other that he might have been the most important president since Abraham Lincoln.
Just sayin.
Might want to hide your obvious bias. This was patheticly low and speaks volumes of what you really are.
@@GrungeHQ NOW RESTING IN PIECES ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
This teacher was a big Deal in schools all over the United States.
I was on break between classes. Sitting in the University Center eating. Watching TV when this happened. It was so sad.
the accident was preventable. that's the biggest tragedy. 😒
Aren't almost all accidents?? The biggest tragedy is that 7 brilliant, ambitious, pioneering, inspiring minds suffered horrific deaths & crashed into the ocean. They are just as dead as if someone sabotaged the mission on purpose.
The word “accident “
Has a different meaning….
So was Colombia.
How so
@@shashonda8 the engineers warned nasa officials about the defective o-rings in the solid rocket boosters. the officials ignored them. 🤦
I REMEMBER SEEING AFTER THE BREAKUP OF THE CHALLENGER THOSE TWO PARACHUTES DESCENDING TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BELOW & FOR A MOMENT THERE WAS HOPE THAT TWO OF THE CREW HAD SURVIVED BUT THOSE HOPES WERE DASHED WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT THOSE PARACHUTES WERE THE PARACHUTES FOR THE NAVY RECOVERY CREWS OR PARAMEDICS THAT WERE SENT IN ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I remember this very well.
I think she was a teacher right In Danbury, Connecticut At Roger’s Park.
I remember watching this when I was little. It’s was like “hey kids, here’s some trauma, good luck with that”
It didn't bother me..I was like..oh shit ... It blew up
No one foresaw the tragedy.
@@pocho689 ROGER BOISJOLY DID & DID HIS BEST TO PREVENT THE LAUNCH & HE WAS THE ENGINEER WHO WORKED FOR MORTON THIOKOL WHO WERE THE COMPANY WHO MADE THE SHUTTLE'S SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS BUT HE ALONG WITH OTHER ENGINEERS WERE SHOUTED DOWN & OVER RIDDEN BY THE NASA MANAGERS & AT THE END OF THE DAY A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN A ROOM DECIDED TO LAUNCH ON 28th JANUARY 1986 DESPITE ALL OF THE ENGINEERING DATA & EVIDENCE THE THIOKOL ENGINEES HAD IN THEIR POSSESSION ON O-RING PERFORMANCE (OR THE LACK THEREOF ! ! !) IN VERY COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS ! ! ! NASA ALSO DOWNPLAYED & LIED ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS A VEHICLE THE SHUTTLE REALLY WAS & ESPECIALLY WITH THE SHUTTLE'S CRITICALITY ITEM-1 ISSUES/FAILURES THAT COULD HAVE LED TO LOSS OF CREW & VEHICLE (LOCV IN NASA JARGON). THERE WAS ALSO THE POLITICAL DIMENSION, BEAUROCACY & LAUNCH SCHEDULE PRESSURE TO GET THE SHUTTLE LAUNCHED ON TIME ! ! ! WHEN YOU BOIL IT ALL DOWN IT TURNS OUT THAT JUST ONE PHONE CALL COULD & WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE LAUNCH THAT DAY ON 28th JANUARY 1986 & YET THAT PHONE CALL NEVER CAME ! ! !🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
No one at home knew.
NASA knew of the issues and knew a nation full of kids was watching, but still let it happen. They knew the O rings were compromised because of the cold weather. They still launched.
The real tragedy was the loss of the second shuttle. There was a Doctor of Sciences on board. There are less than 100 of those in the USA. Almost impossible to replace.
You should certainly do a video on Ronald Erwin McNair too! Very interesting life...
AgreeD, from what I’ve read about him he was a well accomplished person with a lot of hobbies and interests, a bit of a renaissance man. I met him, back in 1985, when he came to the junior high my dad was principal at, to give presentations to the students.
I was around 8 at the time, and super shy, and don’t remember much about meeting him in dad’s office, aside from being very nice and a bit imposing (to a young-in like me) in his blue NASA flight suit and jacket, all covered in patches. I’ve got pics buried away of me walking alongside him going from class to class, and my biggest memory was when he gave his talk in the school auditorium, and talked about being an astronaut and what his previous flight was like.
He mentioned liking to eat scrambled eggs and how he’d bat them into his mouth in zero g, and his reply to the number one question the students had: how you use the toilet in space. 😊
RIP to the crew of Challenger.
@@wastedapathy22 thank you for sharing this 🙏
I was a little bit shocked when I started hearing Christa McAuliffe jokes and other kinds of sick humor about the challenger disaster not very long after the accident but looking back on it I like to think humor is one kind of way some people deal with
I remember it very well as I was some liquid soup in nature.
Morgan and Christa seemed a little close
I remember when this happened. It was awful.
It was horrible for us kids to watch. There weren't any safe spaces. We didn't get 1 word of how to deal with any of it. We were sent back to class and open your textbook to page blah blah and life went on.
We were stunned and just went on.
That’s what parents are for.
Safe spaces? To hide from what?
My sister was one of the many second-phase alternates being considered for the program. She had a teaching personality similar to Christa McAuliffe. It didn't hit me until local news did an interview with her that, had things turned out differently, I would have lost my sister that day.
Feeling sad about a sister that I _didn't_ lose, I can only imagine what Christa's family went through.
Rest in peace Christa. I remember when it happened in 1986
Ty 4 shining a light on this beautiful star 🌟 STILL shining in the night sky. My brother's monument is about 50 yards from the Challengers in Arlington National Cemetery. (Navy 3-21-1991) ✨️✈️🌟🌠🌟❤🙏🏻
Sending you oceans of love
One of the worst photos is the evidence photos of the rubber O-rings. All wet and deteriorated. Even a layman can tell those should be out of commission. No silicone was gonna save those rubber O-rings.
I was pregnant working at a Holiday Inn in Anderson Indiana when this happened!! I remember. I was cleaning a room had the TV in an just watched the dam thing blow😮😮😮
I was right across the river when this happened. Saw it happen. Govt and tech doesnt care about human lives. They brought us outside to watch it and then they brought us back in the classroom and turned the tvs on and basically made us watch it. All of us 5 year old kids.
The best part of this video for me is hearing that all pf her studentscwebt on to become teachers. She really did achieve one of the things she set out to do ❤
RIP ❤
Like many others, I remember this well. I was 24 at the time and watched the explosion live. FM, i was floored. The when it came out that NASA was warned by Morton Thiokol not to launch! OMG... But as usual, nothing happened to the individules that gave the green light. I was looking forward to the Teacher in Space segments. RIP Christa and crew.
Not many people are aware of another space related tragedy that involved Christa McAuliffe. In 1985, McAuliffe and the rest of the top 10 finalists of the Teachers in Space program were touring the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama and were on board a centrifuge ride which simulated G forces that occur on the body during rocket launches. During the ride, one of the Space Center employees accidently fell into the spinning machinery and was killed. Apparently, his mangled body was flung and landed only a few feet from McAuliffe and she and the other candidates were understandably traumatized and devastated. They were quickly escorted out of the park and sent back to their hotel rooms and traveled to Washington DC the next day for another PR event. Not surprisingly, NASA tried to bury the story at the time and most of the local press only briefly mentioned it in a couple of paragraphs and did not reveal that the Teachers in Space were present. However, there are a few articles, including an archived piece from the Chicago Tribune that mention the whole story. I also found a podcast online where one of the Teachers in Space candidates talks about the incident. I personally know more about it as I went to high school with the guy that died and knew his family.
Wow, that's terrible. I had not heard about this, and I follow space program history closely.
The series on Netflix is very informative. At first I'm like "yeah NASA is to blame...ok🙄" then the facts are laid out and it's found out twice NASA has overlooked safety and shuttles were lost with all souls.
What a stupid fkn title.
As far as McAuliffe, we took a vote renamed my middle school (Pine) to McAuliffe during 6th grade camp. Los Alamitos, CA
I had just started a two week vacation and I watched the TV as I packed. It took my breath away when it exploded, and I felt so bad for the loved ones left behind.
Very sad 😔
ANOTHER PREVENTABLE DISASTER THAT WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I always think about her kids.. Hope they are living a decent life.
SPACE TRAVEL WILL ALWAYS BE VERY RISKY & DANGEROUS WHEN ROCKETS ARE INVOLVED ! ! !🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Very true.
IN ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE THERE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE RISKS THAT ARE UNQUANTIFIABLE ! ! ! ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
KALPANA CHAWLA WHO WAS ON THE STS-107 COLUMBIA MISSION IN 2003 HAD A PREMONITION SHE WAS NOT GOING TO RETURN HOME FROM SPACE ALIVE ! ! ! I WONDER NOW IF CHRISTA McAULIFFE HAD SIMILAR PREMONITIONS ABOUT NOT SURVIVING A SPACE FLIGHT ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
So very sad! 😔💔
What a poignant tribute to Christa McAuliffe
She looks like Sigorny Weaver a little or is it just me?
Just you.
I was in 11th grade and we had a snow day on this day so we weren't in school watching it but i know we watched it together during the week when we went back.
"Asides from the Challenger disaster" is the crappiest way to begin describing her life imaginable. jmo.
😭 🌌
Completely irrelevant comment to the video, but are you in the Everdry Commercial
Nice vid. Gotta say though we spoil kids too much with the "trama" nonesense, just TALK TO THEM, and have that "adult moment" Geez we act like trama only exists now. It was very common back in the past. What makes all the difference is having an adult who can properly explain things, [See 80s era Land before time adult dio talking to longneck that lost mom as exmaple] we have too many who can't function as adults these days which is far worse the "tramaized" kids, and those with healthy brains will process it as that boy or girl did.
Of course their is single event trama like this, and abuse trama which is all together different.
Scobe also had issues with Jarvis. He and Christa were 'addons'
More information should have been communicated about the other crew members with continued reminders and remembrances just as those for McAuliffe. Such as epic loss for their families & the country
BTW...Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in my lifetime.
Those other astronauts needed to stop bitching... Program needed a spark... You brought a lot of cash in... That helps if they want to continue the space program where they have awesome salaries...
This video has a salacious title and then it's about...things everyone already knew. Everyone who's sentient anyway.
NASA was under a ton of pressure to get the launch off because McAuliffe wouldn't be able to teach her lesson on a weekday if they'd left one day later.
When she was chosen by NASA, her father called the company I was working with, to inquire about preserving all of her clothing and training gear. I answered the phone and had no idea of TEACHER IN SPACE ? My Boss (Mentor) looks at me and I write down FATHER OF FIRST CITIZEN IN SPACE? He was a great man to work with, he writes FREE! FREE! FREE! We ended up bringing in a TV into work to watch the launch, how sad…
I remember watching this in my 5th grade classroom. I remember the silence after understanding that we saw an explosion, and watching the coverage on television from home after school. Without intention, I remember the Challenger disaster every year on 1/28.
Her name is so unimportant in regards to this story
So very tragic. I would DEF never sign on for that job.
Challenger didn't explode it broke apart from aerodynamic forces.
I bet the school in California does not know that that is not her first name. I don’t say this willy-nilly. I built it. I’ve worked there many times I guarantee nobody there knows.
Morton Thiokol warned NASA that those O-Rings were only rated for temperatures above 53 degrees fahrenheit. The temperature that day was around 28 degrees and high winds. MT refused to sign off on the launch, until word got to them that they would not get anymore contracts.
I remember watching it live and everybody was like did that happen? There was no doubt in my mind what had happened and there was no survivors
We was watching it at school i was in the third grade! It’s sad but sometimes it takes a disaster to change things up! Apollo 1
She was flying for all of us... paving the way for civilian Spaceflight and what we all dream about
I was 9 years old. Watched it live. We didn’t understand right away what happened till later that day when President Reagan spoke.
First civilian in space?!!!hmmm. The first man to walk on the moon was a civilian.
But, you just had to sneak a dig in on Ronald Reagan. Pathetic.
Thanks🙏💕
God be with them. So very tragic
More like the crew is alive.
She is still alive🤫🤔.
A lot of people don't realize that they didn't die when the ship exploded. They died when they hit the water. That may have taken a couple minutes. So I'm sure they all knew it was coming. I can't think of anything more horrifying.
Jealousy is an unnecessary feeling. The fact that the others looked down on her just shows the mindset of murka then. Childish, ignorant and selfish. It's ironic she was the only one really talked about during this disaster. Hypocrisy??
The others did not look down on her. However, if you had been training for a flight for years, only to be bumped off the flight by someone who had only been chosen to fly 6 months earlier, it is not surprising that there was a little bit of resentment. The others were not against Christa MacAuliffe personally and I am sure they liked her.
Setting that aside however, she and the others were killed to launch satellites that should have been launched on an uncrewed rockets. That would have been far safer and cheaper too, The Shuttle was nowhere near as cheap to fly as had been hoped.
As a kid in 1986, I learned that grownups can kill through poor decision-making and management.
We just had a punk kid wrap his motorcycle around a tree here. The tree is ok.😊
I was in 2nd grade at the time. It was a small church school, so my class was the 1st and 2nd grade class. But I didn't get to see it live because my teacher went to see it in the 5th and 6th grade room, while my class was doing our class assignments. All of the sudden my teacher came bursting into the classroom and informed us about the explosion. One of my classmates, not understanding the shuttle only launched in Florida, asked why we didn't feel the explosion. My teacher than gathered us in a circle to pray for the families of the astronauts. She was weeping while she was pray, since her dad worked for NASA at the time.
My reaction wasn't of sorrow or concern at the time, since I didn't know anything about the Teacher in Space Program, even though my dad who was also a teacher was paying attention to it. It was around the time the TV show Airwolf was airing and I enjoyed seeing the different ways those aircraft would explode when the copter destroyed them, since no one really was killed. So when I got home I was anxious to see how the shuttle exploded. When I finally saw it I thought it was neater than what I saw on Airwolf, especially the boosters flying out of control. When my dad saw I was gloating and smiling, he scolded me and had to remind me this was not an Airwolf show and that seven people really died.
Not to downplay Christa McAuliffe's role, but the truth is that a teacher was in space 12 years before her scheduled flight. William Pogue, a member of the final Skylab crew video recorded science lessons inside the weightless Skylab that were later shown in schools in the U.S. Pogue had taught university courses before his Skylab flight.
Yes. The main distinction is that McAuliffe was a civilian teacher plucked from the classroom to go to space on the Challenger Shuttle. Pogue, by contrast, was an Air Force pilot who, I believe, piloted a NASA Mission.
@@zplapplap And Barbara Morgan, the (lucky) runner up to McAuliffe for the Challenger mission, was a teacher from Fresno, Ca. When she finally went up, she also recorded lessons to be shown later, after the crew safely returned. That was done to dampen fears by viewers of a possible repeat episode. She also was called the Education Specialist, not teacher in space. NASA clearly was not interested is using her as a charismatic persona. She just quietly got the job done.
I believe that underscores one of the problems with NASA that caused the 1986 catastrophe - too much PR, not enough realism.
And in the years after the Challenger disaster, Morgan was trained in aviation and became a jet pilot.
@@brianarbenz1329 The amount of attention generated by Christina McAuliffe is hard to overstate. Shuttle missions had become ordinary. Special, but frequent enough that there was no interest in breaking into the school day to show launches and landings. This one particular doomed Challenger mission was the exception. I was a 10 year old 5th grader on January 28, 1986. The months long build-up to launch compared to an ordinary launch was like the difference between the Super Bowl and a week 3 Monday night game. Of all launches to fail, there could not have been a moment of greater impact in the history of the shuttle program. I watched in my classroom, went home in a silent daze, and watched the television coverage from home. Of all the shuttle missions to possibly fail . . .
@@zplapplap A wider problem was that the whole Shuttle program was looking irrelevant and not nearly worth the cost. In the early 1970s NASA had said Shuttles would be making 30 flights per year, and that this would bring down the enormous cost of using satellites and running space stations. This was inflated hype, and speaking of inflated: the cost of a single Shuttle mission was about $500 million by the mid-1990s. Whereas the Shuttle proved itself by making the ISS construction far smoother, in the '80s it qualified as a boondoggle.
And NASA and the CEO of Morton Thiokol feared Congress was going to scrap the program because of constant delays. The previous Shuttle launch had been delayed several times, pushing it into mid-January, and the Challenger's launch with Christa was also delayed at least once.
Though Morton Thiokol engineers strongly pushed to delay the launch again, the company's CEO from Utah and NASA officials pressed for a launch, wanting to avoid having the program appear stalled.
Moreover, the Reagan Administration believed trumpeting Christa's lessons would distract attention from his proposed cuts in federal education aid. It was show-over-substance.
I was a little bit shocked when I started hearing Christa McAuliffe jokes and other kinds of sick humor about the challenger disaster not very long after the accident but looking back on it I like to think humor is one kind of way some people deal with terrifying incidents⚛️
Christa's legacy still goes on.
She has a Elem school named after her in Melbourne Florida.😊
I wonder how she is doing these days.
What kind of crap is this?
My friend is a High School Teacher. She has to buy supplies for low income students out od her own money. One day the AC at school was broken so she came in with a big fan she bought. A kid threw it at her. They had a meeting with her- the kid and his parents and SHE got in trouble b/c she didn't ask the schools permission yet...smh
Judy Resnik
Teacher in Space was a scam/waste.
Icant believe the shuttle got off the ground carrying those GIGANTIC GUTS
She and all her crewmates are still alive..... Open your eyes people and do your research.
What color was her eyes?
Our teacher wheeled in a t.v. and made us watch this live because it had a teacher on it. "Hey kids, do you want to watch 7 people die in an explosion?"
No one knew that was going to happen, none of us regular people
Did you know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders on the beach.