1986 Challenger Explosion Super 8 film

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  • Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
  • Shot on a Chinon Super 8 movie camera on the shore of the Banana River at Cape Canaveral on January 28, 1986.
    After several days of delays due to cold weather, the Space Shuttle Challenger finally launched. 73 seconds into flight, a major catastrophe occurred as the shuttle exploded, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
    This footage captures both the excitement of the viewers as the shuttle lifts off, as well as the disbelief and shock of the explosion.

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  • @arancillotto
    @arancillotto 4 года назад +78

    Such an important historical document! I love analogic movie and, side note, in the background you can hear a dialogue in my language, that is the italian.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  4 года назад +13

      Thank you for your reply! I have wondered for years what language that was. I was a teenager at the time. After getting the film developed and watching it I put it away only to find it in 2012. I hear my voice and my mothers voice on the recording as well. Sad day.

    • @LinkedUno
      @LinkedUno 3 года назад +11

      I'm Italian too. From their accent i'm guessing they were from emilia region (due to the way they pronounce their Zs).
      Sadly what they say is kinda bleak.
      The conversation starts with with a man yelling "Bravi" which is literally "good job guys".
      Then the woman comments "its beautiful" right as the vector starts breaking apart, followed by "look at how the colors change".
      Then the speaker says "it appears there was a major malfunction", and the lady comments that "you cannot really make out much" and "it looks like a painting".
      Another lady older in age wonders if they were able to see the SRB detaching from the shuttle, probably due to the amount of clouds.
      Its when the guys next to you repeated "it exploded" that the lady finally gasped and realized what happened. She replies with "please don't say that" and relays the info in italian "È scoppiato" means "It's exploded" and you can kinda hear the emotion in the way the guy yells it. From my experience, it is much easier to understand other languages from people next to you rather than from comms, so they probably couldn't really make out the commentator at the loud speaker.
      The video ends with the guy saying "it kinda looked like it was going both this and the other way" - kinda hard to translate this last sentence, sorry.
      I cannot imagine these guys traveling all the way to the US only to witness the first shuttle explosion. Crazy

    • @LinkedUno
      @LinkedUno 3 года назад +3

      I just noticed that the lady says a couple more things at the beginning. First she says to take a lot of pictures, then right before the "bravi" she yells "feel the ground shake"
      Sorry about this, i just had to rewatch the video. The quality is very nice, love this format

    • @funawesome2006
      @funawesome2006 3 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult yes very

    • @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND
      @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND 3 года назад

      You can hear her parents speaking

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 2 года назад +3

    The 'Go At Throttle Up' call is so erie. It haunted every shuttle mission after this disaster

  • @eclair9
    @eclair9 3 года назад +31

    This still puts a lump in my throat, decades later.

  • @4seeableTV
    @4seeableTV 3 года назад +27

    "Challenger, go with throttle up" still ends chills through me.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +4

      Those are words that you will never forget and instantly take you back to this tragic event

    • @11111abrakadabra
      @11111abrakadabra 2 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult I just wonder , what You will reply on this theme, after watching this documentary by german journalists... best wishes.... p.s. Great video by the way.

    • @11111abrakadabra
      @11111abrakadabra 2 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult ruclips.net/video/V0nFZLm6Hnw/видео.html

  • @hikingwiththeshackletons
    @hikingwiththeshackletons 3 года назад +14

    I was 11 when that’s happened. I’m the UK and over here it was televised too. I remember exactly where I was & who I was watching it with, it’s one of those historical moments that are forever burned into the public’s minds. A tragedy that SHOULD NOT have happened, those seven precious lives should not have been gambled with. God bless all of them & rest in peace Challenger.

  • @leerog1
    @leerog1 3 года назад +51

    35 years ago but this still makes me feel anxious watching it and so bad for the crew and all involved. Terrible tragedy that never should have happened.

    • @vato6815
      @vato6815 2 года назад

      U know how much a space Shuttle costs...

    • @charro509charitablegiving2
      @charro509charitablegiving2 2 года назад

      To this day I cannot watch any takeoffs. I was at my very first real job and we went across the hall to watch it on one lone tv. Then of course no one could get any work done so most of us went home. It was the most awful thing I had seen on live tv.

  • @kimjongun2946
    @kimjongun2946 3 года назад +89

    In this film you can really notice that most onlookers didn't realize something went wrong for a good minute or so.

    • @davewanamaker3690
      @davewanamaker3690 3 года назад +4

      You are right. I don't anyone comprehended it for a moment. It was so unexpected and tragic.

    • @AnnieBrackett88
      @AnnieBrackett88 3 года назад +2

      I’m sure being on the ground must have been so confusing for the onlookers

    • @vicorly
      @vicorly 3 года назад

      This is about the same angle I viewed it from.

    • @Th3Mavr1ck
      @Th3Mavr1ck 3 года назад +2

      the one lady is so excited "OHHH LOOK AT THE V!!! WAWWW"

    • @MayorMcCheeseStalker
      @MayorMcCheeseStalker 2 года назад +6

      @@Th3Mavr1ck She likely thought she was witnessing the booster separation.

  • @darmichar73
    @darmichar73 3 года назад +16

    1986 I was 13 years old and completely engrossed in the Shuttle Space Program at the time. This launch had been hyped for months due to Christa McAuliffe, the teacher Astronaut, being on-board. I was able to watch the launch before heading to school. I can recall that morning like it was yesterday. I never understood when my Grandma would tear up recalling the assassination of JFK. Now, 35 years later I understand that all too well. There are two memories steeled into my mind. The explosion of the Challenger launch, and the second plane hitting the twin towers. Powerful moments.

    • @jaelynn7575
      @jaelynn7575 2 года назад

      Ditto. I was days away from being 13 yrs old and saw it in my middle-school music classroom with a bunch of classmates and teachers. They quickly turned off the TV afterwards and I think everyone was sent home from school. Strange how one can remember it like yesterday. On 9/11, I was in my car on the way to work and heard it on the radio. I ran from the parking lot into work, and my boss had brought in a TV, then they closed the University for that day. When Columbia exploded, I was at the same job and was pretty much, "oh no, not again."

    • @fotoservisas501
      @fotoservisas501 2 года назад

      i was born at 1986 may :/

    • @sidv4615
      @sidv4615 2 года назад

      do you remember columbia? what was it like?

    • @sidv4615
      @sidv4615 2 года назад

      @@jaelynn7575 do you remember columbia? what was it like?

  • @PhantomDrums917
    @PhantomDrums917 3 года назад +11

    Still chilling after all these years. Thank you for sharing.

  • @haloedge2829
    @haloedge2829 3 года назад +32

    Still can't believe they were alive when the cabin hit the ocean 💔

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +7

      heartbreaking

    • @falienfern3004
      @falienfern3004 3 года назад +6

      they we're alive but im pretty sure they would've been unconscious

    • @falienfern3004
      @falienfern3004 3 года назад +5

      its still heartbreaking either way

    • @peabody3000
      @peabody3000 3 года назад +12

      @@falienfern3004 from what is publicly known there isn't much reason to presume they'd be unconscious.. the fuel tank blast while visually tremendous did not exert much force at all on the orbiter, which disintegrated not from the explosion but from aerodynamic forces, and the crew cabin stayed intact. several of the crew activated their emergency oxygen as they dropped back to earth.

    • @JESUSARMANDORIVAS
      @JESUSARMANDORIVAS 3 года назад +2

      they have 2:36 minutes left

  • @X-Gen-001
    @X-Gen-001 2 года назад +4

    I remember watching the launch as a kid. Anything space, I was into it. I had space shuttle and astronomy/cosmology posters in my room. I was so hyped about the first teacher in space. I was so upset when I saw the initial explosion. I knew straight away the crew where lost and I cried. It still saddens me after all these years.

  • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
    @CRAZYHORSE19682003 2 года назад +7

    It is sad to think the crew survived with the crew capsule remained intact and had to free fall all the way down to impact with the ocean. I can't imagine their terror.

  • @JCA-Z
    @JCA-Z 3 года назад +5

    The videographer is so focused on the ploom of the explosion while the capsule containing the crew members is screaming towards the ocean ready to extinguish the lives of the astronauts, such a sad sad day.

  • @williambarnes7133
    @williambarnes7133 3 года назад +36

    I was in 8th grade when this took place, to this day it still gives me the chills

    • @chrisconsorte7893
      @chrisconsorte7893 3 года назад +2

      I was in the 8th grade too. We heard the announcement over the PA system by our principal. All the teachers were in tears. This tragedy should have been prevented!!

    • @user-zr2lt6dh8j
      @user-zr2lt6dh8j 3 года назад +1

      I was in 6th grade, and the teachers and principal didn't tell us. I guess they hushed it to keep us focused. I sensed a weirdness in the air though, that the teachers were acting peculiar. At the end of school, I found it weird that my mother and sister had come to get me instead of letting me walk home. When I got home and saw it on the news, I remember thinking, I'd rather have walked home.

    • @christopherhanlan1799
      @christopherhanlan1799 3 года назад +2

      @Malcolm MacKenzie Classless comment. Not even remotely humorous.
      This was a tragic moment that imprinted itself in the minds of everyone who watched it happen. All these years later my heart is still shattered.
      For the youth of the world enthralled that a school teacher was about to embark on a historic mission to share the science of spaceflight with students everywhere - it was a massive shock and an extremely harsh dose of reality and mortality.

    • @juliessister5562
      @juliessister5562 3 года назад

      Me too🥺😢

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 3 года назад +18

    I've never seen this. They were so focused on the two SRBs and near the explosion I don't think they realized that little smoke trail that drops down from it was the crew capsule.

    • @holdencaulfield8429
      @holdencaulfield8429 3 года назад +1

      but you did right? Go you!

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 2 года назад +1

      @@holdencaulfield8429 No, it was much later after the official report came out that I read to my absolute horror the crew capsule survived. I think it even mentioned something like there were astronauts punching buttons in it too.

    • @patrickhamos2987
      @patrickhamos2987 2 года назад

      it's a theory as far as i know and unconfirmable.

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 2 года назад +5

      @@patrickhamos2987 "At least some of the crew were alive and at least briefly conscious after the breakup, as three of the four recovered Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) on the flight deck were found to have been activated.[13] PEAPs were activated for Smith[14]: 246  and two unidentified crewmembers, but not for Scobee.[13] The PEAPs were not intended for in-flight use, and the astronauts never trained with them for an in-flight emergency. The location of Smith's activation switch, on the back side of his seat, indicated that either Resnik or Onizuka likely activated it for him. Investigators found their remaining unused air supply consistent with the expected consumption during the post-breakup trajectory.[14]: 245-247"

    • @mb41329
      @mb41329 2 года назад

      They needed a tax write off on the srbs

  • @chvfd687
    @chvfd687 2 года назад +2

    I remember this day all too well sadly. I took classes at two different schools at the time. I was on my way to my primary school on a bus when the news came across the radio. I asked the driver had I heard that right and she said yes. Soon as I got to school I went as fast as my 9 year old legs could run to my class. I told my teacher what I'd heard and she was totally in disbelief. She went to the library where a TV was setup for anyone who wished to watch could go. When she returned she had been crying. She made us put our books away and we went to the rug like for story time and she told us as carefully as she could as not to upset us. She answered every question she could answer and we did a story assignment for the rest of the day. Any of us that wanted to go down to the library and watch the news coverage we wasn't only allowed but encouraged to do so as to learn all we could about it.

  • @spacetimecontinuum
    @spacetimecontinuum 2 года назад +3

    "Go with throttle up" is more haunting and scarier to me than anything Wes Craven and Stephen King combined, could conceive.

  • @yamahabiker1937
    @yamahabiker1937 2 года назад +2

    We were sitting in class watching the live coverage. Everyone was in shock and had no idea what initially happened other than something being wrong....you could hear a pin drop.

  • @MsDawnnee
    @MsDawnnee 3 года назад +4

    I remember thinking, should it have done that? Then the realisation I just witnessed something awful

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +2

      Many people had that same reaction. I was one of them as I had followed the Shuttle program from its inception. I had never seen "that" before. Then your mind plays tricks on you and says "no, everything is OK"... and then the reality and shock takes over

  • @alexandertucker6140
    @alexandertucker6140 3 года назад +3

    I was born Jan 2nd 1986. My mother was holding me when she reacted to this on TV, I STILL FEEL THIS TOO...

    • @lorireece1970
      @lorireece1970 2 года назад

      Do you remember anything about her reaction?

  • @tygerbyrn
    @tygerbyrn 3 года назад +4

    A piece of history…

  • @Wayner71
    @Wayner71 2 года назад +3

    This tragedy and the Columbia one are both haunting and terrible to witness.

  • @davefloyd9443
    @davefloyd9443 3 года назад +7

    Fantastic Camera Work notwithstanding the historical context of what you recorded.
    New insight for me is seeing the windsheers affecting trajectory in real time rather than after the vehicle destruction.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +4

      Thanks for the note. Looking back at this, I too am fairly impressed of the camera work as a teenager. The launch pad was 7 miles from us as we watched on the shore of the Banana River. I just remember the camera lens was zoomed in the entire time and I was shooting hand held as a tripod wouldn't have allowed me to pan up as it continued its trajectory.

    • @davefloyd9443
      @davefloyd9443 3 года назад +1

      @@JeffreyAult That's quite remarkable. To hold the zoomed in camera that steady, as a kid......
      I was watching live on TV in the UK as a 11 year old. I seem to recall it was in the afternoon, after school and the whole family was gathered around watching.
      There seemed to be a never ending sequence of big disasters in the 80's?
      Bhopal, Ethiopia, Aids, Challenger internationally and back home we had the Brighton bombing, Heysel Satadium, Kings Cross Fire, Herald of Free Enterprise, Bradford Fire, Clapham Rail disaster, Hillsborough Stadium disaster....it was never ending, wall to wall health and safety failures or epidemics that were all due to political or regulatory intransigence.
      Scary times to be growing up, BUT Challenger was live in our front rooms or in person in your case. Seemed more terrifying because NASA was generally seen as blue chip, till the mask slipped....

    • @martindelrio1891
      @martindelrio1891 3 года назад +3

      @@davefloyd9443 you forgot chernobyl happening only 3 months after Challenger. for me Challenger and Chernobyl were the 2 main disasters introducing the biggest disaster at all, coming on silent wings....the end of the 80s.

    • @EricIrl
      @EricIrl 3 года назад

      @@davefloyd9443 It was not covered live on TV in the U.K. By 1986, most TV networks, even in the US, had given up on live coverage of Shuttle launches. The first TV images of the Challenger disaster shown on U.K. TV were on John Craven ‘s Newsround programme - a few minutes after the accident had happened.

  • @KilaLacy
    @KilaLacy 7 месяцев назад +1

    Just a few short seconds. RIP to the Astronauts and families who lost loved ones in this tragic accident.

  • @leroyjones6958
    @leroyjones6958 3 года назад +10

    There are top people at NASA who should have gone to prison for murdering this crew. The engineers at Morton Thiokol knew full well that weather
    conditions that morning were too cold and outside of approved launch parameters. Launching this vehicle in those conditions was a prosecutable criminal offense.

    • @BosworthMcG
      @BosworthMcG 3 года назад

      Congratulations on your Netflix membership.

    • @priyachoudhary9896
      @priyachoudhary9896 3 года назад +1

      Well nasa is known to fuck up missions like these a lot, I still don't know how do they keep that organisation running without any persecution, may it be challenger or columbia, lives are lost because of thier arrogance

    • @BosworthMcG
      @BosworthMcG 3 года назад +1

      @@priyachoudhary9896 agree about the arrogance of NASA, but space travel is a dangerous business on the cutting edge of technological innovation . Sometimes bad shit happens when the limits are being pushed . If humanity stopped progressing every time something bad happened we’d still be living in trees .

    • @priyachoudhary9896
      @priyachoudhary9896 3 года назад +1

      @@BosworthMcG I agree that experimentation is necessary but precautions should be taken into actions when your core engineers suggest thst your carrier wouldn't last long in the atmosphere for even a minute

    • @stormsfromcalifornia4379
      @stormsfromcalifornia4379 3 года назад +1

      the managment should've been held accountable ,the engineers tried to stop the launch .there footage somewhere u could see the 0-ring failing before the left the pad

  • @demongo2007
    @demongo2007 2 года назад +2

    I watched live on B&W tv at work; when it exploded everyone got quiet for a second, then one guy yells "It exploded!" I was like nahhh no way, but still trying to figure out what happened. Then they announced that "the vehicle has exploded..." and I was just kind of stunned. We all were.

  • @top40researcher20
    @top40researcher20 2 года назад +2

    i didnt know super 8 film was still in use i thought they were phased out by then

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  2 года назад

      I would use my Super 8 because it was a lot easier to travel with. Video cameras at the time were still 2 components- camera as one unit attached by a cable to the record deck. Batteries were also an issue.

  • @redrum9484
    @redrum9484 3 года назад +4

    A woman screamed right after the explosion. She knew what had happened.

  • @taherahmad2818
    @taherahmad2818 2 года назад +2

    The shape of the explosion locks like a big scorpion.

  • @magneto7930
    @magneto7930 3 года назад +14

    Good ol' Super 8 film, 3 and a half minutes in length. Boy did I have fun with those! Nice camera work, very good job! Thank you so much for sharing it with us, as sad a situation as it turned out to be. You get a thumbs up from me!

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +6

      Shooting Super 8 was quite a pleasure. You had to have discipline because you only had those 3+ minutes of film. You had to plan and think about what you were shooting.

    • @magneto7930
      @magneto7930 3 года назад +3

      @@JeffreyAult Right! I remember literally timing everything whenever I had it on. It had an unusual length of 3 minutes and twenty something seconds. A lot of fun.

  • @TheChico868
    @TheChico868 3 года назад +3

    The pain knowing your child was up there. Too much

  • @beckysegundo6688
    @beckysegundo6688 3 года назад +13

    If only the blast didn't happen, then a minute later the boosters would normally have been able to break away.

    • @olivereddy648
      @olivereddy648 2 года назад

      It was the main tank that blew, not the boosters, they couldn't have dropped that until LEO low earth orbit

  • @Dave-dh7rt
    @Dave-dh7rt 3 года назад +16

    "Challenger, go at throttle up" "Roger going throttle up" that was the last thing said 😭

    • @russelpea
      @russelpea 3 года назад +4

      and, tragically, the sound of the explosion is audible in the radio at the end of this sentence.

    • @Surrenitie
      @Surrenitie 3 года назад +8

      One of the astronauts (i forgot his name) said "uh oh" right before brake up, he clearly noticed something

    • @BosworthMcG
      @BosworthMcG 3 года назад

      @@Surrenitie breakup

    • @Surrenitie
      @Surrenitie 3 года назад

      @@BosworthMcG Thanks haha

    • @BosworthMcG
      @BosworthMcG 3 года назад +1

      @@Surrenitie no probs . Great username btw.

  • @stickitinyourear2011
    @stickitinyourear2011 2 года назад +2

    If the crew cabin had parachutes that could be deployed it might haves saved some of there lives.

    • @dennisxyz5784
      @dennisxyz5784 2 года назад

      G forces probably caused everyone to be unconscious.

  • @anzbel1
    @anzbel1 3 года назад +3

    Thousands of UFOS trying to advise the catastrophe most notorious at min : ...0:34 to 0:36... in a blink of an eye, a cigar type or cilindrical shows off, hypersonic ,sooo cooool.

  • @SaanichtonMinistries
    @SaanichtonMinistries 3 года назад +6

    A good lesson for the space x crews. At the time NASA said there was 1 in 100,000 chances the vehicle could be lost and crew killed in the STS program. It turns out to be 2 complete losses per 135 flights. A complete catastrophe.

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 3 года назад

      when did they say that??? wtf?

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 3 года назад

      the space shuttle was a crazy cardboard contraption held together with superglue with idiotic politicians behind it. I don't believe SpaceX is anywhere near in the same situation

  • @marcorioti6932
    @marcorioti6932 3 года назад +4

    I heard people speaking my language also, Italian.. Very sad moment..

  • @AnimMouse
    @AnimMouse 3 года назад +3

    2:53 The vehicle has exploded!

  • @musicnerd72
    @musicnerd72 2 года назад

    As another guy said on here, I was in 8th grade and remember the principal coming over the intercom system and announcing the tragedy. I was in typing class. The teacher told us to turn our typewriters off. She then went to her desk and started quietly crying. Some of the other students started doing the same thing. Others like me just sat stone faced in disbelief. Other than the few sobbing, you could hear a pin drop. 36 years ago and I still remember all that so vividly. 😥

  • @andrewschannel4259
    @andrewschannel4259 3 года назад +3

    This is excellent footage of a terrible tragedy.

  • @pateva2003
    @pateva2003 3 года назад +3

    The stringy contrails falling from the bottom of the plume is Challenger.

    • @averyetvspecial1487
      @averyetvspecial1487 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, there’s actually images where you can make the cockpit and other craft elements out fairly clearly. i.pinimg.com/originals/93/c8/94/93c894570c8c2c95bd8e4c4cb3ea4169.jpg

  • @peabody3000
    @peabody3000 3 года назад +3

    it seems obvious now that the shuttle had exploded, but at the time most viewers were aware that the two booster rockets would separate at around that time of launch, that it was a very visually striking event, and that once the boosters were off the remaining cryo-fuel rockets on the orbiter didn't produce nearly so much of an exhaust trail

  • @MrScientific007
    @MrScientific007 3 года назад +13

    All crew went again ard 65,000 feet after explosion and appears one of stream above and going up is a crew module.It appears that they survive in the explosion and conscious and later died as of either depressurised their module or during impact on ocean.

  • @tiocfaidh28
    @tiocfaidh28 2 года назад +2

    The crowd just didn't get it did they?!

  • @attygarland6909
    @attygarland6909 2 года назад +5

    Always wondered why the STS rockets were not equipped with an escape rocket, like the Saturn Vs had. If so, and assuming the shuttle crew did in fact survive the explosion, seems they could have launched the escape rocket to pull them away from the area and deploy the chutes to bring them down safely to the ocean's surface.

    • @Chicken_Wing91
      @Chicken_Wing91 2 года назад +2

      The shuttle was different than the Saturn V but the main cockpit survived they should have equipped it with shoots I’m sure the impact of hitting the ocean is what done the crew in

  • @monicaford5106
    @monicaford5106 3 года назад +2

    I watched this from my front yard holding my newborn son. We both cried. Hes 35 now. Wow soo long ago

  • @Deebemc
    @Deebemc 2 года назад +1

    Heartbreak, after the triumphs.

  • @laurieguenther5898
    @laurieguenther5898 2 года назад +1

    I saw this in my junior year in high school. It was just awful. Space flight is risky business, but it was terrible the way they died

  • @joem5110
    @joem5110 3 года назад +3

    I was 16 years old watching it live in Biology class. After about an hour they released school early.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +4

      This was an event people always know exactly where they were when they heard the news.

    • @joem5110
      @joem5110 3 года назад +3

      @@JeffreyAult Just like the 911 attacks.

    • @dexterm1285
      @dexterm1285 3 года назад +2

      I was in first grade and remember day well at even that age.

  • @ajnoisefocikzr
    @ajnoisefocikzr 7 месяцев назад

    The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger was a national disaster and led to NASA suspending the space shuttle program for two years. The disaster also led to several safety changes in the space shuttle program.

  • @alexandredecaoutchouc2217
    @alexandredecaoutchouc2217 3 года назад +17

    You can hear the sound of the explosion. I've noticed that nowhere else.

    • @averyetvspecial1487
      @averyetvspecial1487 3 года назад +2

      I think that’s on the radio, which they were broadcasting over the PA. You can hear it in all the transmissions recordings.

    • @demzerocool7475
      @demzerocool7475 3 года назад +3

      It actually never exploded. There wasn't a boom. The aerodynamic forces ripped it apart. The part of the cloud that looks like fire is actually just the sun's reflection.

  • @ericcutrer1467
    @ericcutrer1467 3 года назад +4

    I see in your description you used a Chinon camera. I have had a Chinon 35mm camera since 1983. They are really good. I think people thought that maybe the blast and things flying out was the fuel tanks being released before they found out the shuttle had exploded. This was in my senior year. Our principal had all of us come into the auditorium to show us on tv what had happened.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      Still have my Chinon. It was a great camera growing up.

  • @lutello3012
    @lutello3012 3 года назад +2

    Needs a non-interlaced scan with original aspect ratio

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  2 года назад

      I actually have that along with each frame saved as a TIFF image. A company in Germany went as far as cleaning up every single frame. I keep all those files separate and for any documentary films that use it.

  • @TheChico868
    @TheChico868 3 года назад +1

    I can't watch this again. To much hurt for the families

  • @macjack5978
    @macjack5978 4 года назад +4

    That's crazy.

  • @TheStarzzguitar
    @TheStarzzguitar 2 года назад

    Most photographers followed the boosters, not realizing the shuttle was in the debris falling.

  • @juanalberto5079
    @juanalberto5079 3 года назад +3

    Heroes in the sky, God bless America.🌹✌️

  • @arthurweems2839
    @arthurweems2839 3 года назад +1

    You are lucky. This is what I always wanted and in a way still want. A Super 8 Movie Camera. Sound of course can't read lips. Chinon and Canon were good brands for movie Cameras. I think the last retailer was the AAFES PX in the early 1990s, that sold a movie camera.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      I still have the Chinon I shot this with. Along with the original print of the film reel. It was a great camera.

  • @LennyFrankowiak
    @LennyFrankowiak 2 года назад +2

    is this already stabilized? cuz it's really well done, but could use some stabilization. not trying to sound like a butt or anything.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  2 года назад

      No this is my raw footage - only stabilization was that I was a teenager then and could stay fairly still! I'm a little surprised at my younger self because while I was on the Banana River, I was still 6 miles from the actual launch pad so I was zoomed in. A company in Germany created a cleaned up version and di some stabilization but I like the original texture of the original footage.

  • @flypimpinogflypimp2126
    @flypimpinogflypimp2126 3 года назад +2

    This makes me so sad to see this . I pray for these astronaut s and their family

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      Sad day for our space program.

  • @klk1900
    @klk1900 2 года назад

    If you look at the burn profile of the srb. From 0-30sec that peak then the burn rate goes down from 30-50 sec. then 50-70 they throttle back up. And 70-80 they hit the last peak. Then at 80-90 then start tapering down. The solids don’t put out the same amount of thrust. They change the compound thickness and they can somewhat control the thrust just by how much solid fuel they put. The SRBs are made to mechanically throttle down with the main engines. By the time you hear the throttle up call. It’s already throttled up 5 seconds or more before. The call is only so if the computer didn’t auto throttle they would know when to manually do it. But it’s never happened.

  • @jenshaw1509
    @jenshaw1509 2 года назад

    Do you think that the crew died to the public as an educational lesson but in fact physically survived as there were known issues with the aircraft. Children helped to assemble the parts of the shuttle. I believe that people I met years ago at Harbourfront computer camp and my childhood school were affiliated with the Challenger space mission

  • @Pe6ek
    @Pe6ek 2 года назад

    "It's beautiful."

  • @mikesuch9021
    @mikesuch9021 2 года назад

    Recent discovery says they were all alive until they hit the water. But all the cameras keep focusing on the boosters not the debris

  • @angelajackson4248
    @angelajackson4248 3 года назад +1

    SO VERY Sad 😢 I Hate That Day For Them 💔

  • @georgebuller1914
    @georgebuller1914 2 года назад +2

    I've seen images such as this before, but as with this one - and those before - I truly hope that the G-Forces and other 'things' taking place at the moment that the shuttle came apart, were mercifully too close together for the brains of those onboard this mission to realise what was coming next!
    I truly hope that they were too busy trying to 'fix' the problem to have ANY realisation that their lives were about to be snuffed out! And snuffed out for purely financial/political reasons!
    RIP to all those involved and - to their families - my SINCERE condolences!
    That another crew had to perish later on - and again due to a decision made by someone who was sitting safely on Mother Earth - in my opinion just goes to show how little Human life is valued!...

  • @yallowrosa
    @yallowrosa 2 года назад +2

    1:11 the Horns of the Devil

  • @scottlocke8935
    @scottlocke8935 2 года назад

    Houston, We have a problem!! KABOOM!!

  • @marcomasala7477
    @marcomasala7477 3 года назад +1

    Italiani: facciamoci riconoscere dappertutto...se non lo annunciavano all'altoparlante dell'eplosione dello Shuttle erano ancora li alla sagra del Grana Padano. Avvilente.

  • @fintan3563
    @fintan3563 3 года назад +1

    You can see the rocket boosters go off on their own, but there is a smaller trail that heads down to the camera right. Is that the crew cabin or some debris? Since it is smaller than the rockets the attention is focused on the rockets. But what is that smaller trail? 😢😢😢

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +2

      The trail of the crew cabin was pointed out to me by someone knowledgable but it wasn't the obvious smoke trail you can clearly see on the downward trajectory. It was my understanding the cabin detached intact and is one of the other smaller downward trajectory trails.

    • @dr.trichome6419
      @dr.trichome6419 3 года назад

      Crew cabin

  • @emtee40
    @emtee40 2 года назад

    Nice!

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES
    @TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 года назад +1

    I need to transfer mine.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      What camera did you shoot the launch with?

    • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES
      @TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 года назад +1

      @@JeffreyAult JVC Camcorder on the Beeline(now called the beachline)

    • @peabody3000
      @peabody3000 3 года назад +1

      pls let us know when you do?

  • @lorenzopinto7948
    @lorenzopinto7948 3 года назад +4

    Belli i commenti delle classiche bizzocche padane in vacanza che non si rendono conto di una beata mazza. Tipo, nella vita, proprio...

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      Italian?

    • @lorenzopinto7948
      @lorenzopinto7948 3 года назад +2

      @@JeffreyAult Yes, a classic, slightly ignorant family from northern Italy on vacation, who probably thought they were seeing the fireworks of the feast of Santa Barbara...

    • @LinkedUno
      @LinkedUno 3 года назад +1

      They were just wondering if they would be able to witness the SRBs detach from the shuttle and thought that the explosion was exactly that. They commented it was "beautiful" and "a great show".
      None of the other spectators noticed the explosion until comms announced it.
      The Italian family was just more vocal in their enthusiasm at what they thought was happening.
      It's tragic really.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      @@LinkedUno Thank you for the translation.

  • @mikemars5984
    @mikemars5984 3 года назад

    I think some people are bloody clueless watching this and similar videos.

  • @Tomfoolery1972
    @Tomfoolery1972 3 года назад +2

    No boom was heard on the ground?

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +3

      You can hear it at 1:16 / 1:17. It's in the distance but being this was shot 7 miles from the shuttle launch site and the shuttle was already miles into the air and heading away from the camera it's not a huge boom.

    • @elymayer4860
      @elymayer4860 3 года назад +13

      You really wouldn’t hear much. Because contrary to popular believe, it didn’t actually “explode.“ It’s a very long story short. But the faulty joint and the solid rocket booster caused a plume of flame to (basically) set in motion a series of events that caused the external tank to break apart. That caused abnormal tumbling of the orbiter, which caused the orbiter to break apart from abnormal aerodynamic forces. The original cloud that you see looks like an explosion, but that was just the liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, etc mixing together after the fuel external tank Broke apart. It appears orange and yellow (as though it were an explosion) because the cloud enveloped the solid rocket boosters, and that yellow/orange color that you see is actually the color of the solid rocket booster flame within the cloud

    • @dr-ozone
      @dr-ozone 3 года назад +4

      @@JeffreyAult that sound is static transmitted via radio, not the explosion. If heard on the ground there would be at least a 30 second delay.

  • @iretreti83
    @iretreti83 3 года назад

    Em 1986 eu quase chorei, agora sou indiferente.

  • @pateva2003
    @pateva2003 3 года назад

    Poor folks. It took the spectators about 15 more seconds to realize something is wrong.

  • @deangelobayley7079
    @deangelobayley7079 2 года назад +1

    challenger go with throttle up....

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  2 года назад

      Words that anyone who was alive in 1986 knows exactly what they mean and where they were at when spoken.

  • @georgewashingtonbush679
    @georgewashingtonbush679 3 года назад

    This was no malfunction but an explosion ! Malfunction was before explosion ! Always these euphemisms than the hard reality ! Reality is also better to understand the victims !

  • @AnimMouse
    @AnimMouse 3 года назад

    2:01 A major malfunction.

  • @trenken
    @trenken 2 года назад

    Was this shot in 1957?

  • @jameshoran8
    @jameshoran8 3 года назад +1

    Where was this taken. Thought the ocean was a restricted area.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      Banana River. Back then you could get passes to drive onto the base. Or you could take a tour bus that would take you to the viewing location on the base

    • @jameshoran8
      @jameshoran8 3 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult It's always interesting to me when I see the shuttle mishap and how long it takes people to realize something went wrong.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +2

      @@jameshoran8 yes. Different era. Back in ‘86 people didn’t have media options of today. Most people had seen a launch on tv but usually up close tv shots. When you’re watching a launch in person it’s a totally different experience. Your mind can play games with you as you know something is extremely wrong but your mind won’t let you believe it. I’m still amazed that my version is the only one that has surfaced that was shot on movie film and not on video. Today, there would be 100,000 personal videos capturing the event.

    • @vicorly
      @vicorly 3 года назад +2

      @@JeffreyAult I remember I was there in the bleachers, maybe 150 feet away from the McAuliffe family.

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      @@vicorly I'm sure that was an incredible experience for you. I will never forget it.

  • @chrisfinta4941
    @chrisfinta4941 3 года назад +1

    🙏🏻

  • @nickhalden9220
    @nickhalden9220 3 года назад

    They are alive well most of them

    • @redrum9484
      @redrum9484 3 года назад +2

      7 died.

    • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
      @CRAZYHORSE19682003 2 года назад

      LOL what is it with internet conspiracy theories and the low IQ people who believe in them? I am related to Michael J Smith and if he was alive, I would know about it.

  • @b.goodfellow465
    @b.goodfellow465 3 года назад

    I wonder how long it took for all the smoke to clear! 🙏🙏🙏

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад +3

      We were quarantined at the Center for hours. I remember the smoke lingering the entire time. Surreal event

    • @AnimMouse
      @AnimMouse 3 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult Why did you get quarantined?

    • @vicorly
      @vicorly 3 года назад

      @@JeffreyAult why were you quarantined?

    • @JeffreyAult
      @JeffreyAult  3 года назад

      @@vicorly they shut all traffic in and out and held everyone at the base until they figured out what happened. Simple security procedures.

  • @LichaelMewis
    @LichaelMewis 3 года назад

    Anyone know where this was taken from?

  • @nerdspaceciencia1449
    @nerdspaceciencia1449 3 года назад +1

    Triste

  • @Frank-rh7vh
    @Frank-rh7vh 2 года назад

    So sad... human Technique kills human...

  • @gattopallas7196
    @gattopallas7196 3 года назад

    ...:"sembrava a me che andava uno di qua e uno di la"... Italiano con accento del nord. 😳

  • @i.c.a.productionsbyr.p.
    @i.c.a.productionsbyr.p. 3 года назад

    E terribile rivedere queste immagini...
    Dall'ascolto dell'audio, non tutti avevano immediatamente realizzato cosa fosse già successo...
    Terribile, tristissimo.
    Non si dimenticherà mai.
    Forse, gli astronauti a bordo non han capito nulla...
    O forse hanno vissuto tutto nella propria pelle...

  • @HUGOBOSSBLACKSHEEP
    @HUGOBOSSBLACKSHEEP 3 года назад

    Shame that they perished, even though we have never been to space

    • @tomatosoupwoo
      @tomatosoupwoo 3 года назад +3

      Ur stupid lol we’ve been to space so much

    • @derekwarr8567
      @derekwarr8567 3 года назад +3

      Don't be that guy

    • @vicorly
      @vicorly 3 года назад +2

      There’s a lot of empty space between your ears.

    • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
      @CRAZYHORSE19682003 2 года назад

      Question, are you just trolling the flat earth thing or do you REALLY believe that?

  • @coronelbraddock6948
    @coronelbraddock6948 2 года назад

    Domo da terra

  • @hollyhockbaby1216
    @hollyhockbaby1216 3 года назад

    super splat

  • @nessuno3048
    @nessuno3048 3 года назад

    Why do they speak in Italian?

  • @deoglemnaco7025
    @deoglemnaco7025 3 года назад

    I am sad to hear of this but why was your film not taken by government. This is certainly evidence of crime Were you in a jail because of the film

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 3 года назад

      Uh, as if there weren't more and better film archives already of this event? Why on earth would they need this video?

    • @deoglemnaco7025
      @deoglemnaco7025 3 года назад

      @@kitcanyon658 I’m sorry my English is not that great! I’m saying that you took these photos but it was certainly not what the NASA government would want. My question is if you were on the court for this?

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 3 года назад

      @@deoglemnaco7025 : I understand what you're saying. My point is that many people were videoing this launch and disaster. Why would NASA or the government care what they filmed?

    • @deoglemnaco7025
      @deoglemnaco7025 3 года назад

      @@kitcanyon658 yes but the fact of a non military or non government person having a camera which this film is certainly not what the people should be seeing

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 3 года назад

      @@deoglemnaco7025 : Why? As I said, hundreds of people had similar footage. The was absolutely nothing special about any one's footage.

  • @rysbayev
    @rysbayev 3 года назад

    😞

  • @danilobonaccorsi1981
    @danilobonaccorsi1981 2 года назад

    Si sente parlare italiano

  • @Mente_Universal
    @Mente_Universal 3 года назад

    Hoax