The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Explained
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2019
- Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first civilian tried to go to space.
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If you Google “Teacher in Space,” Christa McAuliffe appears. How did she get to go? Well, in 1984 President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, a NASA program meant to honor teachers while simultaneously inspiring students, getting them more excited about STEM and space. The program called for bringing teachers into space as non-astronaut workers.
Around 11,000 teachers applied, but NASA accepted just two. The aforementioned McAuliffe, a high school social studies teacher from Concord, New Hampshire. And Barbara Morgan, an elementary school teacher from Idaho, who would serve as McAuliffe’s backup.
Even in space McAuliffe would be required to teach- NASA made her make up lesson plans to present aboard the Space Shuttle.
Space Shuttle? Yes, that’s how she would get to space. Space shuttles are rocket-launched spacecrafts that are able to be reused and can land like an unpowered aircraft. NASA developed space shuttles to make more routine trips back and forth between the earth’s surface and Low Earth Orbit. NASA built six space shuttles, the first one launching in 1981 and the last one in 2011.
One of those six was called the Challenger. That one was the one McAuliffe got to be on. STS-51-L, as the mission was called, was the 25th of the Space Shuttle program. It was mostly a routine mission meant to launch a satellite, but part of what the crew was gonna do was check out Halley’s Comet for six days. The commander was Dick Scobee, pilot Michael J. Smith, the mission specialists Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, and Ronald McNair, and payload specialist Gregory Jarvis. McAuliffe was also classified as a payload specialist.
January 28, 1986. Cape Canaveral, Florida. A cold and icy morning. Liftoff was delayed, in fact, due to all the ice on the launch pad. Around 17 percent of all Americans were watching live on television, mostly due to the presence of McAuliffe, who had trained for months for this moment. At 11:38 AM local time, everything looked normal as Mission Control told Scobee “Challenger, go with throttle up.” However, just 73 seconds after liftoff, at an altitude of around 46,000 feet, or 14,000 meters, the Challenger began to disintegrate and all communication with the crew was lost. The shuttle had no escape system, so the crew remained trapped inside. Americans back on the surface watched in horror after witnessing what looked like an explosion, and as major chunks of the shuttle orbiter fell back to the earth.
Meanwhile, the crew was still alive inside. The fuel tank exploded, but the crew compartment was still intact. They got as high as 12 miles, or 19 km above the surface. At some point they fell back to the earth, and less than 3 minutes later hit the water at approximately 207 mph, or 333 km per hour. Upon impact, all seven crew members immediately died. It all happened so quickly.
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When do you think civilians will be going to the moon?
2024
Question, why does this say 3 days ago when the video came out 4 hours ago
I upload early for my Patreon supporters.
Mr. Beat I really wish I could contribute to your patreon
@@iammrbeat
you arent that bright are you?
The lesson: management needs to listen to the engineers who have their noses in the data and their ears to the ground. Such a tragedy.
Well put Andrew!
Yup.
The *exact same thing* killed the crew of _Columbia_ as well. The foam did the damage, but the failure of management to listen to engineers was the true root cause.
Idk if you've heard what happened in Florida this year.....but that's another case of not listening to engineers
@@upgradermunchkinBC if you’re talking about the condo blame lazy building owners and sloppy (or bribed) inspectors
"Management" should have all been put in jail.
The launch was done in spite of engineers telling the bosses it wasn't safe. There was tremendous political pressure to launch since it had been delayed earlier. Hopefully some lesson were learned that day.
Cut to the Columbia disaster where the lessons hadn't been learn't and they once again ignored the engineers
We have NEVER and I repeat never been past lower earth orbit. This has been stated over and over by NASA astronauts and cosmonauts themselves and yet they actually have the world convinced they've been to the moon. NASA is an extension of Disney - all smoke and mirrors to make people never fully understand that they were made in the image of Almighty God and made for an incredible purpose. Instead, people are easily manipulated and controlled to do whatever the elite want them to do. This mind control project has only been in effect since the 1960s. This is RECENT...and it's only been a 500 year lie...before that people knew the truth. Ask them why they've never been back since the 60s and yet back then they talked on regular phones and could magically and easily clearly talk to the people on the moon. Look at footage of Nixon doing it. Yet ALL NASA contacts admit the tech no longer exists and that it was destroyed and they have no records that they apparently used to have....or did it ever exist? Why are the flight patterns of airlines so weird? Why don't they fly over Antarctica to get to the other side? Lord open the eyes and peel back the veil that has been hanging over us for so long! Reveal yourself in might and power to anyone reading this as You did me and many many others. Wake them up to the truth and give them comfort as they start asking hard questions. Destroy any fear that may come up in them as they start digging and give them courage to do it!! Amen.
I had no idea that the crew was alive after the explosion
crazy
TRUE
CBWAVY same here never knew that until earlier this year I found out
It didnt really ''explode'' it was different then that. The cockpit(upper and lower deck) detached from the rest of the orbiter , and im pretty sure they were alive and conscious right after the disintegration, the cockpit/cabin was flug away from the rest of the shuttle at approx 20Gs for a few sec, thats a survivable G load for that amount of time.There was no proof that the cabin/cockpit depressurized, also,an Astronaut or Astronauts switched on 3 of the airpacks for some of the Astronauts. Maybe not every Astronaut was alive and the key word '' conscious '' all the way down to impact with the water, but If I had to put money on it, id say at least 1 of the Astronauts were
Didn’t need to know .......
It's so sad. I feel like space missions are something that really unites people so it's especially sad when something bad happens.
Mos def. Space missions are so inspiring, yet when they fail we immediately hide back in our shells.
Extra sad and shameful when know that people are start to think Earth is flat and Moon landing is fake.
it's all fake. watch this 2 min vid and you'll have your perception of the world shattered. ruclips.net/video/6yCRDe8MsDk/видео.html
It’s sad that only knew about this accident because of the Beyoncé song 🥺 I’m glad I found this channel
They are very interesting too and unify the country too
"It all happened so fast." ... It takes 6 minutes to fall from 12 miles up, so it wasn't very fast for those on board. 😬
Knowing Better what’s up
This is late but. Wow this is the best educational cross over...
They didn’t die on board?
Aye what’s good I watch your videos all time time doggie
@Safety First What is a peap unit?
Heart Warming Fact: One of the astronauts on board the challenger brought with them a soccer ball. The ball was left intact and was recovered after the incident. Years later that same ball was brought on to another space mission and made it to space
You can tell anyone anything, even the most ridiculous and ludicrous claims, and people will still believe it.
@@VinceSlzr but its true lmao?
What happened to Ron McNair's saxophone? That has to be worth a fortune in an auction if that was found.
@@VinceSlzr You can, but a few minutes of research will show you this one is actually true.
Waw there's nothing heart warming about the
Let me remind everybody that Big Bird from Sesame Street was almost on the Challenger as a marketing stunt, but the deal fell through
Luke, The Editor if he was on the challenger he would be some burnt turkey
i forgot i commented this
sam o'nella
Got to make it to 85, Rest In Peace
Thank god it did
That disaster when they filmed the parents live when it exploded that one was a hard video to watch because you could tell they knew what happened to their children and it was horrible.
I watched that footage several times. It was unethical to film them for so long. They should have cut away or not released it.
@@iammrbeat To be fair, a lot of people on the ground were still processing what happened
Quite a bit of people watching on the ground didn't know the explosion they saw was an explosion. Some thought it was the routine separation of the Solid Rock Boosters. To be fair the video everyone watches today is the zoomed in feed by the news cameramen. The people on the ground didn't have that zoomed in vantage. People who had witnessed multiple launches knew that there was trouble.
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I was teaching history in my class when the science teacher came running in and shouted " they lost the shuttle " my split second thought was " what ? they have radar " then he screamed " it blew up "
I didn't have a TV in my room at the time ! True Heroes 🚀 😞
I was 4 years old and I just remember my mother upset trying to explain it to me. They could possibly be false memories, though.
Pretty bad science teacher then to announce the supposed death of a bunch of people in front of innocent children.
I was in 6th grade i don’t remember the details I think the teachers just cut off the tv and we went back to class we as kids wasn’t sure what happened we just knew something was very wrong.
@@manoahvanderwolf3259 No, that's a good science teacher. A who doesn't inform students is a bad science teacher.
I briefly met the wife of one of the victims of the accident (Ronald E McNair), Cheryl Moore at a science camp around 5th or 6th grade where we made paper helicopters and learned about physics and all that. I don’t remember all the things she said, because it was about 6 years ago but I admire her so much for going through what she did and going on to continue trying to teach kids about STEM with things like the McNair camp. Thanks for covering this, Mr Beat.
That's very cool you got to meet her!
His wife is a wonderful and caring woman.
No matter what anyone says, this was ALL NASA's fault. They new about the icy conditions and the danger of taking off. A engineer for the challenger begged NASA to call of the launch, but they didn't listen. After all, what does an engineer know.
So true, and they could’ve kept using the shuttles if they took more precautions and that probably was the goal until Columbia happened and NASA was forced into a political and financial corner. Unfortunate to see the shuttles go long before we were ready to let them go.
The Reagan Administration didn't help, either. They were the ones who, in the end, forced the launch. NASA is a government program, after all. And the Roger's report would have been a quiet sweep under the rug if not for one of the main investigators demanding a thorough search against orders. Colombia would have happened way sooner if not for him.
you know everything....there will be no more discussion of this....whatever you say is correct and no one should ever question it
@@PlasticPellets Your very, Very, V E R Y right!
@@Jesus_paid_it_all and from now on, I will use the possessive, "Your" rather than the contraction, "You're", at all times as you know everything!
Barbara Morgan later went on to become a full member of the Astronaut Corps and flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor as part of the crew of STS-118 in 2007
Indeed!
@ Safety First
Not only do automakers suffer from the same economic pressures (just look at any of the many recalls some as a result of deaths), driving a car is inherently more dangerous than flying.
she survived??
@@kamiiu, she didn't fly on the doomed spacecraft, she was only the "backup" astronaut to christa mcauliffe
Wow. I’d probably be too spooked to consider it again in that situation
The fact the crew didn't immediately die in the explosion and slowly fell to their deaths in a flaming shuttle is honestly horrifying.
They aint even dead nw
200+mph isn't very slow.
@@CurtisD1986 Nor was the crew cabin compartment in flames. It broke away intact as the rest of the orbiter shredded and can be seen in numerous detail frames. The crew compartment's catastrophic damage occurred at water impact, and no significant thermal effects were detected in the wreckage of that section.
Also, overall there was no explosion in the technical sense. It was, rather, a catastrophic breakup under excessive aerodynamic and G loads (incurred by the detachment of the leaking SRB, as well as the LH2 tank structural failure from external rather than internal forces). The combustion of the gasses released from the cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen tanks was incidental.
Not-so-fun fact: The challenger disaster happened on my moms birthday, and she gets upset when people mention it
How old was she when it happened?
@@iammrbeat She turned 17 that day
My parents would sympathise, their wedding day was 7/7/1984. 21 years later, thanks to 4 terrorists blowing themselves up on London's transport system, the date 7/7 became tainted
My grandfather was buried on my 26th B day :/
@@cultofmalgus1310 I'm sorry to hear that, my condolences
Another side fact: Ron McNair, one of the astronauts that died in the Challenger explosion was also a musician as well. Musician Jean-Michael Jarre had written a song called "Ron's Piece" which he intended to have McNair play the saxophone part from the ill-fated challenger mission. It was supposed to be the first song ever recorded from outside the confines of our planet. Jarre eventually got another sax player to play the part on earth, but dedicated the LP it was on, Rendez-vous, to McNair and the crew of the Challenger.
Yeah, I considered mentioning this. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention!
That whole album is great
it's all fake, they're still alive. watch this 2 min vid and you'll have your perception of the world shattered. ruclips.net/video/6yCRDe8MsDk/видео.html
That is a true story, & a rare factoid that not a lot of people know about, 👏🏻
It’s so sad to imagine being in that situation:
You just got on a space shuttle and you’re super excited after months of working up to this point, you take off with your crew happy and feeling accomplished when soon your entire ride bursts into flames and explodes, but you’re still alive. Panicking, you wish you were home watching tv, eating a nice breakfast, and the last you ever see is you and your crew panicked as you fall into the water before dying
Over a fucking “O” ring!
You ever been on one of those theme park rides where you get strapped into a seat and sent upwards on a really tall spike really fast? It's like that except * 20 and you get several warnings and contracts about a very possible death.
For the 7 Astronauts who died in this tragic day
lest we forget 😔
They did not die in vain.
M Detlef people did though.
but they never died.
@@manoahvanderwolf3259 ?
ive forgotten about it
I was 16 when this happened. My parents worked on the Shuttle Program at the Rockwell plant in Palmdale, CA. When someone told me in the hall in high school, I didn't believe them. As the day went on, more and more people were talking about the disaster.
So sad. I didn't know the astronauts were still alive after the blast and only died upon impact when they crashlanded into the ocean.
Caroll Spinney, the performer of Big Bird, was also considered to go on that flight.
I really found that hard to believe.
Graeme Davin the deal was dropped
it's all fake, they're still alive. watch this 2 min vid and you'll have your perception of the world shattered. ruclips.net/video/6yCRDe8MsDk/видео.html
@@zachariahtuttle3543 still alive after crashing into the ATLANTIC ocean, sure buddy.
@@fumikagetokoyami3379 This is a certified hood classic.
Ignore that I had to type that to avoid youtube from deleting my post like it did to the last three because big tech is anti-free speech.
Anyways what I'm trying to say, and ill say it carefully so the algorithm stays satisfied, the people didn't get on the thing, therefore people did not die on the thing. Search up the people who went on the thing to find that they are all still alive with some under different names and others still having the same name.
EDIT: Frankly the fact that I had to say it like this to not get it deleted shows something about it. If it's not true why suppress it.
This was more than just a disaster for NASA, it was a national tragedy. It's one thing to have the early space pioneers pay the ultimate price for the dream of reaching space, but the fact that Crista Macauliffe was a school teacher makes it more sad. No wonder NASA didn't come out of this, and latterly the Columbia disaster, very well.
In hindsight, they took too much risk to push for a launch in such cold weather conditions. That being said, if it hadn't been for a cruel twist of fate, the slag from the rocket fuel itself, that had been bridging the gap in the field joint (caused by the O Ring failure) being blown out by a jet stream over the launch site, I feel that they could have made it into space.
Still a sad chapter of the desire to explore space, nonetheless
definitely a rush job no one wanted to take responsibility
Yeah, that's why I framed the story around Christa. This event had huge long-term psychological effects for us when it came to our relationship to space exploration. Before it, we were getting a bit cocky. Ever since, we've been cautious and a bit too conservative about exploration in my opinion.
@@thinkabout288 No one ever does :(
@@iammrbeat yeah, if only NASA listened to engineers like Roger Boisjoly, perhaps they would have been more cautious about the dangers. What I didn't know, until doing a bit of digging, was that NASA had a similar incident a year earlier, when the Discovery Shuttle was launched in similarly cold conditions on a January day. On this occasion, NASA were lucky Discovery seemed to have a trouble free launch. When the SRB's were recovered from the ocean for analysis however, not only did engineers discover evidence of scorching around the right SRB, but the O rings were only thousandths of an inch away from burning through completely. Scary stuff on reflection
True. They showed launch pictures of at least two earlier shuttle launches showing puffs of smoke coming from the booster joints.
Always like to watch your videos Mr beat even when it's a sad subject I still learn something!
yes and very good make I am watching now documentary of challenger disaster
Thanks man! I enjoy your stuff, too. :D
I read the transcript of the black box from the Challenger. It was absolutely heart shattering. They were scared, crying and praying. It was horrible.
We have a family friend who is an astronaut that went to space twice. We’ve known him since my older brother was little. He currently works on a bored at a university in Texas that studies the remains from the Challenger disaster
I loved the space shuttle, glad to be able to remember the last several launches from 2008-11. As controversial as it’s history was after Challenger and Columbia, it was one of the greatest feats of engineering ever created and deserves a place at the forefront of American History.
I live in Concord NH. I also live right next to the cemetery where Christa is lied to rest. Her headstone is at the top of the hill, looking over a valley, and right next to a tree. Its a beautiful spot, and has regular visitors. Her headstone is often covered with shuttle toys, pens and pencils, rocks, coins and small notes of love and remembrance. Its a lovely spot, and a nice place to go and remember a wonderful teacher who gave.
One of the most chilling things I heard around this was a comment after the wreckage was recovered. When asked about the bodies. The PR director clarified. He said “please understand we recovered remains. Not bodies”
Lol theyre alive
Can you imagine what those poor people were thinking inside the space compartment. They survived the explosion, but they were falling to earth at around 200 miles per hour! they were heros for space exploration and learning.
Well Mr Beat, I have heard this story a few times and sat glued to the TV skipping university classes in the aftermath, and yet you have given a new spin on this
Oh wow, well glad you learned a bit from it. :)
Rest in peace to those who died
they have great jobs, one is CEO of Cows in Trees. From the smiles, i think they have quite peace with that they're still all alive.
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This was also one of my first memories: I was in first grade watching this live on TV along with my whole first grade class & the teacher, Miss Kosman. A very specific, sad memory.
I've got news for you: your first memory is a faked memory. Google CEO Cows in Trees, and challenger crew alive. Time to wake up and fix that false memory.
@@manoahvanderwolf3259 fuck you
@@manoahvanderwolf3259 Time for you to wake up and face reality
@@spaghetti_o_yeah9550 i don't need to, if you believe they died you are sleeping. they are alive and well, and you can see the proof with just a google search. but hey, if you rather live with your eyes closed, be my guest
oh sweet, Ive been watching you for years but for the last year or so I havent watched a whole lot of your videos, but I just wanted to find out more about the Challenger and thank god you have a video on it your videos are always so cool
I love your videos!!!! Thank you very much, Mr. Beat. P.S. I REALLY missed going to EduCon and seeing you. I had plans with airline tickets and hotel, and then had a family emergency... Next Time For Sure!!!
Aw man. I was wondering why I didn't see you. I'm so sorry you had a family emergency and couldn't make it. I hope everything is ok.
@@iammrbeat Yes, I REALLY missed it : ( Then, to make things worse, Expedia would not refund my tickets so I lost all that money...
Oh geez. Welp I'm not traveling through Expedia again. I'm so sorry.
Man a tragedy that should've been avoided...
I'm surprised that they didn't try to find a to blame Trump for all of this.
Great video as always!
Thank you!
So sad, Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
My second grade teacher was dormed up with her in college, and we were in her class watching this live. They were very good friends! it was trauma for her and I will never forget it!
Poor astronauts :( Thank you, Mr. Beat.
A tragedy that often also overshadows the Columbia Disaster.
@@iammrbeat Yes which was worse?
Damn! I thought they exploded! It’s so much worse knowing that they were alive and fell back to earth.
Thank you so much for this insightful video
I did not expect you to make a video about this!
one of my mom's teachers came very close to being selected - the relief they must have felt when they saw the shuttle explode. so sad what happened. I grew up in Houston and the park I went to as a kid was named after the challenger
Woah. Yeah I probably would have signed up honestly. I'd love to go to space.
What’s really terrifying is that they didn’t die during the explosion, they were still conscious when they fell for 2 minutes and died when they hit the water.
it's all fake, they're still alive. watch this 2 min vid and you'll have your perception of the world shattered. ruclips.net/video/6yCRDe8MsDk/видео.html
More like 2:45 mins and nearly 3 mins counting the time they continued maintaining an upward trajectory due to the momentum. But it must’ve felt like hours in those moments. Your whole life flashing in front of your eyes. Terrifying.
really succinct presentation! (and I've watched them all...)
My 4th grade teacher signed up. Fortunately, he wasn't picked. He's glad, since this tragedy happened
Big Bird (Caroll Spinney) was supposed to go up on the challenger mission but he was cut from the mission because the Big Bird puppet was too big, which is why a teacher went up instead.
Yeah, there's a Weird History video about that. I didn't want to steal their thunder.
NASA have actually subsequently sent a teacher into space as Barbara Morgan went onto fly in Endeavour in the early 2000s. She wasn't teaching by that point though and was a full astronaut.
I learned about this in school today! I actually came here because your video was next on auto play!
Fun Fact-Before they got Christa to go in space they wanted to get a popular kids show character.
AND THEY CHOSE BIG BIRD FROM SESAME STREET
Thankfully,He never got to get on it because his suit has so big
I wish I could meet you one day, your videos are great
Heck yeah, I'd love to meet you, too. One of these years I'll go on tour. And thank you so much! :D
Thanks, that would be awesome
3:29 Wait, the crew was still alive? Oh god.
Yeah. NASA hid that information for years.
How would NASA have known that if there was no communication with them after the explosion though?
jonathan smith they would quickly be incapacitated by the altitude though
Looks like they still are. ruclips.net/video/PxqhU6nEy6c/видео.html
@@iammrbeat actually, they are still hiding that information since they are all still alive. Look up CEO Cows in Trees, and 'challenger crew alive'. Which means the entire project was faked. So here's a wake up call for you. That means your video is also filled with false truths. Time to wake up. Ignorance is not the same as innocense.
I was watching when that happened. An unfortunate event, for sure. Human travel to space will go on without incident for several years in a row and almost start to seem routine, but it really isn't. Brave people that do that.
Lesser known fact: Allan McDonald, Thiokol's executive at the Cape who refused to sign off on the contractor's written recommendation to proceed with the launch, made one last ditch effort to stop it. While they were waiting for a FAX with the written recommendation signed by a senior Thiokol VP back in Utah (because of McDonald's on site refusal to sign), McDonald made an appeal to NASA on the spot, effectively going insubordinate. I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially he told NASA, "Look, I don't know what happened in that meeting that got my company to reverse its original recommendation against launching, but YOU can't accept this reversal, because you and I BOTH know that it means committing to flying those boosters outside their design limit."
Big Bird was originally gonna be on the Challenger.
Yeah I ran into that Weird History video, too. ;)
@@iammrbeat I learned that from a Sesame Street Trivia Page.
If the Challager was traumatizing to you before, imagine if a childhood character you loved was in there...
"Getting the students more excited about space"
I'm rethinking wanting to even go space 1 bit
My science teacher applied to this. I had him in his final years of teaching in the late 2000s and early 2010’s. My grandma (teacher) and mom (teacher assistance) were watching live in front of their class.
I was in 2nd grade and our teachers let us watch it live when it blew up they turned it off real quick. It actually traumatized me because I don't remember much from my childhood unless it was a really happy or sad time, some people remember tons of stuff, but I remember this because I seen an explosion and my teachers upset and crying. Everyone was quiet in the classroom it was very somber feeling.
This reminds me of a time i forgot to oil up an O-ring on my oil filter and it cracked under the heat of the engine, luckily when it broke i was close to home.
I am not a mechanic, but yeah my Dad is he taught me to always oil up the O-ring.
Two of those astronauts were my neighbors that lost their lives that day.
Oh really? I’m not saying that like I don’t believe you
Just some Ramirez with internet access yes Ellison and McNair lived in Seabrook where I grew up. They lived in the same
neighborhood that I grew up in. NASA was down the road from us and my elementary was named after Ed White.
Jennifer Booth cool
first of all you're a liar. second of all they're still all alive. so again, you're a liar.
Manoah van der wolf I dont know who the hell you are to accuse me as a liar. They may be alive in spirit but that’s it. Go do your homework!!!
Man, I can't help but feel so damn bad for this lady, just imagine getting a chance like that, being so excited after probably weeks of preparing for it, thousands of people cheering you on as you get to do something everyone wishes they could, only for the only thing that could go wrong, to go wrong. Just imagine the terror of her final moments, it's chilling just thinking about it honestly, I pray her soul is resting easy, and that she got explore the stars in the afterlife, I really honestly hope that.
Lol shes alive
My grandmother grew up with Jarvis in upstate New York when they past she nevered talked about him or mentioned the disaster but my heart go out to all the crew members.
I wonder how weird it was for the other teacher that could have gone on the challenger 😱
Barbara Morgan, McAuliffe's backup, did go to space as part of the crew of STS-118, with her task being robotic arm operator.
My mentor was Sophia Clifford, one of the finalists to go aboard challenger. She is the reason I have always been so enamoured with space travel, I still remember talking to her, with her granddaughter that I dated, about helping form the lesson plans christa would use. I still cant believe how close to a central point of history I was for knowing her and helping as her TA. As a chemistry teacher one of the biggest things she always went over before labs was about O-rings and how heat can change their effectiveness. If only her students knew the reason she stressed that seemingly meaningless point.
Grew up on the Space Coast. For every launch our elementary school would go outside and watch. I was on the playground in 1986 watching this launch.
I was one of those people watching live. It was heartbreaking.
To whom? certainly not the parents of the astronauts, you can literally see them laughing and smiling in the crowd after the rockets exploded. after all, nobody died. Google 'challenger crew alive' and CEO Cows in trees. Time to wake up.
@@manoahvanderwolf3259 everyone died on the shuttle
@@m.t.vandersmookie1150 no they did not. You can literally google them and discover that truth.
I was in 8th grade when this happened. I didn't hear a word about this until school let out, when one of my friends on the school bus told me what happened. I didn't believe him.
Needless to say, after I got home and watched the news, I apologized to him the next day.
What a sad and surreal moment. RIP, all seven astronauts. And thank you, Mr. Beat, for your well-done presentation on this tragedy.
Love this video being from Concord. We named an elementary school after her and have a cool space center named after her as well.
NASA considered sending up Big Bird (yes, the one from Seasame Street) as a publicity stunt before deciding on a teacher instead. Imagine if they didn't change their minds...
I was 12 years old when this happened and I remember being in science class and watching the live launch in the school's library. When the shuttle exploded one of the teachers turned off the TV. I didn't understand what happened and when we got back to the classroom my science teacher wouldn't talk about it. I think he was stunned. I don't know. But every time I watch a video about the Challenger I cry a little and relive that moment when I realized what happened.
It was actually Richard Feynman that demonstrated live on tv that the o-ring seals didn't function properly even at 32 degrees F as he had put the same material in a cup of ice water and surprised everyone by taking it out and showing that deformations would remain in the material for a period of time at those temperatures. You can search the clip on youtube.
Fun fact: Christa's backup Barbara Morgan who was also mentioned in this video got to fly to space on STS-118 as a Mission Specialist Educator aboard OV-105 (Orbital Vehicle 105) "Endeavour" the same orbiter built to replace Challenger...
The commander of the challenger his son is a Lieutenant General for the Air Force today
Imagine the relief of the 10,998 teachers who didnt get picked to be on that space ship
Seriously though! Ugh so unfortunate
It happened when I was in 8th grade...we were so excited to know a teacher going up. My home economics teacher was trying explained to a bunch of 8th graders about this tragedy.
I was in 5th grade when it happened. We listened to the radio in class that day. The high school I attended had a couple tribute paintings on one of the buildings. I have no idea who painted them but the school had them painted over years later. Pisses me off every-time I think of it.
Aw man that sucks :(
Great video Mr. Beat! For those interested in more historical analysis of the whole event and why it is a crime, not an accident, I refer you to the following book:
Michalowski, Raymond and Ronald Kramer, eds. 2006. State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government. Rutgers University Press.
Woahness. I will definitely check that out.
I do research and analysis in state-corporate crime and the Challenger incident is a foundational case study for the field. Was very excited to see you do this video.
Just watched this after the dragon was launched in the air today
This was NEVER mentioned to us in school (I happen to live in Texas) even when there was a field trip to the Houston space center, and finding out about this fucked event in space history thanks to the internet has me shocked even as an adult today, I can see why this was kept from us as kids.
Canadian here. One of my first "I know where I was when..." moments. Was nine years old and they stopped class to talk about it.
It’s kinda sad that he has to explain what the space shuttle is since they’ve been gone for so long
You're right.
Sean Whearty I think everyone knows what the space shuttle is though
sasquatch 747 younger people, probably 12 and younger have no memory of a time when the space shuttle was still flying
Sean Whearty they were retired 7 years ago, I still think that most people would know what they are, or else they’re just very stupid.
umop apIsdn - Not knowing what a space shuttle is doesn’t make you stupid... I’d like to inform you that I’m reporting your comment, and the other thread of yours I saw.
“NASA had gone sloppy with there rocket”
There budget: _0.8 cents_
Thank you
"Nasa got sloppy" is an understatement. They were just way too concerned with launching as many times every year because they had promised a high launch count. The shuttle was supposed to be a cheaper reusable way to replace the days of the Saturn V launch but in the end they never lived up to what they promised and the shuttle was not cost efficient.
I was just days away from being born when this happened.
I was 4
LOL, I wasn't even conceived. I was born Feb 87. ☹️
who’s here after the SpaceX just launched in 2020
I was skipping class just smoked a fatty .was walking by the library and they had a TV watching it live.ill never forget it. It was only by chance I was walking by and stopped to watch.
I remember when my dad saw 911 on the tv at his company, (he told me the story) and he told his partner about it quickly, but he didn't seem to be shocked or have feelings about it
It’s “go at throttle up” not go with throttle up” look it up! That’s not the command. You probably think that’s what you hear but he says clearly “go at throttle up”
I know. I commented on it too and scrolled down to see if anyone else caught that. It’s a mistake 99% people make. It drives me nuts too. 😆
And STS-26 - the flight after _Challenger_ - was the *only* flight that didn't respond to that with "Roger - go at throttle up".
Christa Mcollith was my teacher😭 MISS HER SO MUCH
uh huh
I am probably among the few alive that day who didn’t see the explosion until years later. I was 4 years old, was my grandparents 40th wedding anniversary too. The month before, we were at Magic Kingdom and it had snowed in Orlando on Christmas Day. That’s about all I remember from that time. I was at school myself, pre-school. I remember being upset my dad picked me up early. My brother on the other hand, was watching the launch. His teacher was also a finalist and knew Christa. I didn’t see the launch until Dan Rather retired.
Holy cow, I always thought the crew died upon explosion, is terrifying to LEARN that they lived thru the freaking hell and had time to think they were going to die!
Possibly, but the huge forces of the explosion might have rendered them unconscious.
Like to see space videos pop up in my feed cause the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but not this, not this
I'm the Debbie Downer, I guess.
One of my earliest memories too. Was still four years old.
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P.J. O'Rourke "Morton Thiokol moves teacher hazing into the space age." One of the astronauts was the son of South Kona shopkeepers, so this got a lot of play on Hawaii. Saw it live from the MCP library on Palm St.
I was reading best friends by Shannon Hale and this came up in her book. She said that she was home sick and her and her dad were watching it together. This is really sad ☹️
When Ron McNair was eight he tried to check out a book from a White's only public library. The librarian called the police. Now that library in South Carolina is the Ronald McNair Memorial Library.
I grew up in the town where Ronald.E.Mcnair grew up in there is a middle school named after him
I remember that day and seeing it on tv. Was so sad. Even more sad that NASA engineers and management knew it would probably happen and let it happen anyways.
My mom was watching this live on television when it happened and it was basically very traumatic for her she started crying