Shocking Facts About the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

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  • Опубликовано: 16 май 2020
  • Every American who lived through the '80s remembers the Challenger explosion. But what happened to cause the famous national tragedy? How could such a catastrophe happen when NASA so meticulously checks and double checks all the equipment at their disposal?
    Even with all the risks, astronauts gladly put their lives on the line for decades in the pursuit of reaching for the stars. The Challenger tragedy was not the first or the last catastrophe to befall NASA. The exploratory organization has not forgotten the sacrifices of the seven crewmembers who died on January 28, 1986: Francis "Dick" Scobee, Mike Smith, Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ron McNair, Greg Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.
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Комментарии • 13 тыс.

  • @swagalicious117
    @swagalicious117 4 года назад +7390

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

    • @karenedmiston5964
      @karenedmiston5964 4 года назад +238

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

    • @xynzlollie
      @xynzlollie 4 года назад +330

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

    • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854
      @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 4 года назад +48

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

    • @bleachingiants1
      @bleachingiants1 4 года назад +13

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

    • @ElusiveLabs
      @ElusiveLabs 4 года назад +10

      Id hit it

  • @twosocks9002
    @twosocks9002 3 года назад +4871

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

    • @FurnitureFan
      @FurnitureFan 3 года назад +230

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

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 года назад +108

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

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 года назад +18

      Judge Judith Schndlin can!

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 года назад +7

      You need a check up from the neck up!

    • @Dizinii
      @Dizinii 3 года назад +84

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

  • @carriekoehler8619
    @carriekoehler8619 10 месяцев назад +158

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

    • @semoneg2826
      @semoneg2826 3 месяца назад +3

      Oh..wow

    • @TheGraduate702
      @TheGraduate702 3 месяца назад +1

      Was she the back up?

    • @kaleimaile
      @kaleimaile 2 месяца назад +1

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

    • @tatianaromonov1416
      @tatianaromonov1416 2 месяца назад

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

    • @juniordixie9489
      @juniordixie9489 2 месяца назад

      My teacher was a finalist for MS

  • @michelleb7399
    @michelleb7399 Год назад +588

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

    • @rucianapollard7098
      @rucianapollard7098 Год назад +29

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

    • @RJERRh0ads4everr
      @RJERRh0ads4everr Год назад +9

      It was huge. You nailed it😢

    • @jellybeanz3614
      @jellybeanz3614 Год назад +11

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

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Год назад +1

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

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Год назад +2

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

  • @princesse0920
    @princesse0920 3 года назад +2657

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

    • @lss74
      @lss74 3 года назад +71

      Absolutely !!!

    • @thatairplaneguy
      @thatairplaneguy 3 года назад +63

      First degree imho

    • @dieleg
      @dieleg 3 года назад +32

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

    • @andrewsnowden848
      @andrewsnowden848 3 года назад +15

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

    • @AL-ob8wc
      @AL-ob8wc 3 года назад +91

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

  • @bobthompson4319
    @bobthompson4319 4 года назад +7477

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

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 года назад +406

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

    • @bobthompson4319
      @bobthompson4319 4 года назад +611

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

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 года назад +116

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

    • @ladycheyne5607
      @ladycheyne5607 4 года назад +52

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

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 года назад +184

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

  • @Dulcimerist
    @Dulcimerist Год назад +354

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

    • @cdelane3335
      @cdelane3335 Год назад +16

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

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 Год назад +1

      Where were you when the dinner bell rings?

    • @yvettepurnell-davis5626
      @yvettepurnell-davis5626 Год назад +1

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

    • @anselmocosio6647
      @anselmocosio6647 Год назад +4

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

    • @largol33t1
      @largol33t1 Год назад +5

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

  • @MrDarkmarius
    @MrDarkmarius Год назад +30

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

    • @peacewillow
      @peacewillow 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @shakes525
    @shakes525 3 года назад +3134

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

    • @nillyk5671
      @nillyk5671 3 года назад +83

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

    • @joshgriffin747
      @joshgriffin747 3 года назад +91

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

    • @shakes525
      @shakes525 3 года назад +204

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

    • @shaneb8254
      @shaneb8254 3 года назад +133

      @@shakes525 I've smoked moon rocks before.

    • @tkaiabutler2245
      @tkaiabutler2245 3 года назад +42

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

  • @Vinsternator40
    @Vinsternator40 4 года назад +836

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

    • @npeace312
      @npeace312 4 года назад +88

      Good teacher there. I would have done the same.

    • @LaraCroftEyes1
      @LaraCroftEyes1 4 года назад +34

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

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 4 года назад +2

      Who is they?

    • @Vinsternator40
      @Vinsternator40 4 года назад +3

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

    • @longgroove
      @longgroove 4 года назад +25

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

  • @torifair
    @torifair 11 месяцев назад +58

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

  • @judybrady860
    @judybrady860 10 месяцев назад +15

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

  • @will.a.benjamin
    @will.a.benjamin 4 года назад +982

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

    • @TheBsheep
      @TheBsheep 4 года назад +61

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

    • @howardbartlett3419
      @howardbartlett3419 4 года назад +7

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

    • @TheBsheep
      @TheBsheep 4 года назад +8

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

    • @stillsearching5816
      @stillsearching5816 4 года назад +6

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

    • @howardbartlett3419
      @howardbartlett3419 4 года назад +12

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

  • @myjournee7381
    @myjournee7381 4 года назад +616

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

    • @mackey4568
      @mackey4568 4 года назад +2

      They got you

    • @79jwhite
      @79jwhite 4 года назад +12

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

    • @elleboogie1716
      @elleboogie1716 4 года назад +8

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

    • @mikedlc9766
      @mikedlc9766 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/4TJVhdPtEkE/видео.html

    • @searching4adventure85
      @searching4adventure85 4 года назад

      Then Ashton Kutcher jumped out.

  • @desireezavala7500
    @desireezavala7500 8 месяцев назад +12

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

  • @jacquelineoh6382
    @jacquelineoh6382 Год назад +75

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

    • @turkoturktech5003
      @turkoturktech5003 Год назад

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

    • @keelyourshelf
      @keelyourshelf Год назад

      Jesus you're hot.

    • @kln58cub
      @kln58cub 10 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @AncientttimeZ
      @AncientttimeZ Месяц назад

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

  • @detective___mcnulty
    @detective___mcnulty 4 года назад +6950

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

    • @randominternetprofile8270
      @randominternetprofile8270 4 года назад +100

      What grade did she teach

    • @danam0228
      @danam0228 4 года назад +274

      that's very touching

    • @L-mo
      @L-mo 4 года назад +42

      Stupid comment

    • @danam0228
      @danam0228 4 года назад +135

      @@L-mo how so?

    • @melvinschrute9617
      @melvinschrute9617 4 года назад +227

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

  • @Superduper666
    @Superduper666 3 года назад +548

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

    • @fishersteven8900
      @fishersteven8900 3 года назад +5

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

    • @thomasloveless4800
      @thomasloveless4800 3 года назад +32

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

    • @Jase583
      @Jase583 3 года назад +2

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

    • @potatoking6571
      @potatoking6571 3 года назад +2

      @@fishersteven8900 go

    • @potatoking6571
      @potatoking6571 3 года назад

      @@fishersteven8900 K

  • @jugghead-1975
    @jugghead-1975 9 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @brettwhittlesey6862
    @brettwhittlesey6862 Год назад +22

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

  • @jusnuts1443
    @jusnuts1443 3 года назад +453

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

    • @cellblocknine5385
      @cellblocknine5385 3 года назад +6

      what did she say or do when the shuttle blew up

    • @jusnuts1443
      @jusnuts1443 3 года назад +23

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

    • @kanayd
      @kanayd 3 года назад +19

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

    • @jusnuts1443
      @jusnuts1443 3 года назад +5

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

    • @elenasalvatierrapowers1357
      @elenasalvatierrapowers1357 3 года назад +5

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

  • @wzvy
    @wzvy 4 года назад +513

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

    • @IceAxe1940
      @IceAxe1940 4 года назад +36

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

    • @OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO
      @OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO 4 года назад +32

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

    • @erickmack4131
      @erickmack4131 4 года назад

      Should i know who that is or gaf??

    • @imrichsoexpensiveglasses9932
      @imrichsoexpensiveglasses9932 4 года назад

      I don't get it

    • @powe6048
      @powe6048 4 года назад

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

  • @Christian_Girl120
    @Christian_Girl120 Год назад +62

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

    • @rcristy
      @rcristy 10 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @nightrunner1456
      @nightrunner1456 10 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @jaysmith5175
      @jaysmith5175 10 месяцев назад

      the event was fake

    • @nightrunner1456
      @nightrunner1456 10 месяцев назад

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

    • @user-qi1sz2be3d
      @user-qi1sz2be3d 7 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @lorenzo1660
    @lorenzo1660 Год назад +39

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

    • @fredlandry6170
      @fredlandry6170 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @3chords490
    @3chords490 3 года назад +736

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

    • @the99thtimelord16
      @the99thtimelord16 3 года назад +22

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

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад +8

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

    • @Jameswilllee
      @Jameswilllee 3 года назад +6

      So true. The Chernobyl disaster also comes to mind.

    • @taelermoore5060
      @taelermoore5060 3 года назад +8

      Kinda like Trump did for the virus eh...

    • @christopherj5780
      @christopherj5780 3 года назад +1

      A sad lesson still not learned.

  • @Vinsternator40
    @Vinsternator40 4 года назад +705

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

    • @andrewlopez3745
      @andrewlopez3745 4 года назад +7

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

    • @DannyBoy-gw4rs
      @DannyBoy-gw4rs 4 года назад +158

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

    • @Chris.Davies
      @Chris.Davies 4 года назад +79

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

    • @donpettyandthespacefakers1798
      @donpettyandthespacefakers1798 4 года назад +11

      trust me they did not suffer at all

    • @rodhale9211
      @rodhale9211 4 года назад +23

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

  • @robertcrist5747
    @robertcrist5747 Год назад +62

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

  • @AR-sz5lm
    @AR-sz5lm 10 месяцев назад +30

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

    • @christopher-xi2ey
      @christopher-xi2ey 10 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @DesertFox0420
      @DesertFox0420 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @NottoJokin
    @NottoJokin 4 года назад +2303

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

    • @notmaireelneim
      @notmaireelneim 4 года назад +129

      Thank goodness Big Bird was OK.

    • @VeracityLH
      @VeracityLH 4 года назад +301

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

    • @konsuelowatkins6712
      @konsuelowatkins6712 4 года назад +67

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

    • @louvreunknown
      @louvreunknown 4 года назад +54

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

    • @bracita15
      @bracita15 4 года назад +39

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

  • @presidentskroob522
    @presidentskroob522 3 года назад +811

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

    • @amp08021
      @amp08021 3 года назад +24

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

    • @dano1307
      @dano1307 3 года назад +16

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

    • @popra432
      @popra432 3 года назад +9

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

    • @wernerboden239
      @wernerboden239 3 года назад +2

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

    • @popra432
      @popra432 3 года назад

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

  • @lonerebeI
    @lonerebeI Год назад +8

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

  • @jogann2453
    @jogann2453 Год назад +104

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

    • @stephanienicole1747
      @stephanienicole1747 Год назад +5

      Amen

    • @roro4787
      @roro4787 Год назад +9

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

    • @robinhood6954
      @robinhood6954 Год назад

      @@roro4787 Well said! 👍

    • @HiBye-ec8ts
      @HiBye-ec8ts Год назад +17

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

    • @mattyctill
      @mattyctill Год назад +2

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

  • @Metonymy1979
    @Metonymy1979 4 года назад +258

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

    • @AidenAidan
      @AidenAidan 4 года назад +1

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

    • @Metonymy1979
      @Metonymy1979 4 года назад +1

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

    • @Applewille
      @Applewille 4 года назад +2

      @@DudeHomer please

    • @justinpino8115
      @justinpino8115 4 года назад

      Smeg-head

    • @Applewille
      @Applewille 4 года назад

      @channel break Care to elaborate?

  • @paahl1572
    @paahl1572 3 года назад +2243

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

    • @Audfile
      @Audfile 3 года назад +24

      Because engineers never faek up. Right.

    • @patrickharvey158
      @patrickharvey158 3 года назад +11

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

    • @bfreak444
      @bfreak444 3 года назад +66

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

    • @backdoorletsdothis
      @backdoorletsdothis 3 года назад +20

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

    • @DemnRaig80
      @DemnRaig80 3 года назад +2

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

  • @LukeBCtown
    @LukeBCtown Год назад +36

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

  • @srincident
    @srincident Год назад +2

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

  • @aaronm4706
    @aaronm4706 3 года назад +432

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

    • @ShabaaUkelele
      @ShabaaUkelele 3 года назад +6

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

    • @L_MD_
      @L_MD_ 3 года назад +11

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

    • @melvinfleck
      @melvinfleck 3 года назад +9

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

    • @mehermusic2154
      @mehermusic2154 3 года назад

      @@L_MD_ no, i ALWAYS vote third party

    • @fishfoodie
      @fishfoodie 3 года назад +3

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

  • @MaryJane-th7mg
    @MaryJane-th7mg 4 года назад +349

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

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 года назад +18

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

    • @michaezell4607
      @michaezell4607 4 года назад +51

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

    • @zippitydodaday6037
      @zippitydodaday6037 4 года назад +8

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

    • @RyanBurnsRed
      @RyanBurnsRed 4 года назад +9

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

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 4 года назад

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

  • @capti443
    @capti443 10 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @mishie618
    @mishie618 Год назад +11

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

  • @Wrz2e
    @Wrz2e 3 года назад +514

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

    • @billyoung8118
      @billyoung8118 3 года назад +30

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

    • @DQBlizzard_
      @DQBlizzard_ 3 года назад +3

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

    • @kaplislemesis4789
      @kaplislemesis4789 3 года назад +7

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

    • @monstadable
      @monstadable 3 года назад +1

      And a good example of how bureaucracies fail.

    • @kaplislemesis4789
      @kaplislemesis4789 3 года назад

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

  • @dennisn1672
    @dennisn1672 3 года назад +1044

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

    • @proud90skid15
      @proud90skid15 3 года назад +68

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

    • @belindadrake5487
      @belindadrake5487 3 года назад +21

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

    • @alexfilma16
      @alexfilma16 3 года назад +6

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

    • @saintshrooms9424
      @saintshrooms9424 3 года назад +2

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

    • @lickmypickle922
      @lickmypickle922 3 года назад +7

      Alex May What part of that was justifying pedophilia?

  • @maybetnp
    @maybetnp Месяц назад +2

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

  • @mankinmarketing
    @mankinmarketing Месяц назад +2

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

  • @merricat3025
    @merricat3025 4 года назад +213

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

    • @Gamble661
      @Gamble661 4 года назад +31

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

    • @azreanaibrahim2721
      @azreanaibrahim2721 4 года назад

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

    • @anonamous365
      @anonamous365 4 года назад +3

      She had no buisness being there

    • @judithryle2113
      @judithryle2113 4 года назад +2

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

  • @emilybehnke8004
    @emilybehnke8004 3 года назад +160

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

    • @Tpklmale
      @Tpklmale 3 года назад +13

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

    • @ajaxashford4815
      @ajaxashford4815 3 года назад +2

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

    • @Tpklmale
      @Tpklmale 3 года назад +22

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

    • @x_ultra6628
      @x_ultra6628 3 года назад +1

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

    • @borninmassteaparty3132
      @borninmassteaparty3132 3 года назад +1

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

  • @farzan000
    @farzan000 Год назад +17

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

    • @jellybeanz3614
      @jellybeanz3614 Год назад

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

  • @MmSueable
    @MmSueable Год назад +4

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

  • @donaldmcauliffe7653
    @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 года назад +733

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

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 года назад +48

      @Jeff Larocque l dont understand you

    • @tigergreg8
      @tigergreg8 4 года назад +48

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

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 года назад +60

      @@tigergreg8 l am a McAuliffe

    • @npeace312
      @npeace312 4 года назад +35

      I am so sorry. Breaks my heart.

    • @donaldmcauliffe7653
      @donaldmcauliffe7653 4 года назад +47

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

  • @DesertVan
    @DesertVan 4 года назад +289

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

    • @tomryan914
      @tomryan914 4 года назад +6

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

    • @mystiquesonja2084
      @mystiquesonja2084 4 года назад +17

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

    • @kjlandon9140
      @kjlandon9140 4 года назад +2

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

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 года назад

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

    • @marieantoinettescake9513
      @marieantoinettescake9513 4 года назад +4

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

  • @taramarielmt
    @taramarielmt Год назад +3

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

  • @SniperWuff
    @SniperWuff 9 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @tylertyler1360
    @tylertyler1360 4 года назад +391

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

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 4 года назад +31

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

    • @jamiebarrientos9969
      @jamiebarrientos9969 4 года назад +4

      Thats a classic twenty one pilots situation right there

    • @eliaszuniga3385
      @eliaszuniga3385 4 года назад +9

      He should be in jail

    • @shirleykurtz
      @shirleykurtz 3 года назад +3

      They probably promoted him!

    • @UdumbaraMusic
      @UdumbaraMusic 3 года назад +4

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

  • @paridhi_d9167
    @paridhi_d9167 4 года назад +686

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

    • @StarMercurian
      @StarMercurian 4 года назад +27

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

    • @RunehearthCL
      @RunehearthCL 4 года назад +18

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

    • @stewiepid4385
      @stewiepid4385 4 года назад +7

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

    • @shindari
      @shindari 4 года назад +17

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

    • @paridhi_d9167
      @paridhi_d9167 4 года назад +2

      @@StarMercurian yeah right 🤦‍♀️

  • @gaylenesanchez1170
    @gaylenesanchez1170 Год назад +9

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

  • @hpowe1
    @hpowe1 Год назад +2

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

  • @ronmaciejewski4855
    @ronmaciejewski4855 3 года назад +1017

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

    • @matthewloomis838
      @matthewloomis838 3 года назад +8

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

    • @bayougtr
      @bayougtr 3 года назад +9

      He said “Engineer” three times!!!

    • @samsmusichub
      @samsmusichub 3 года назад +10

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

    • @nitrocw
      @nitrocw 3 года назад +16

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

    • @anthonyspanjich2772
      @anthonyspanjich2772 3 года назад +16

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

  • @Simonsays90
    @Simonsays90 3 года назад +284

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

    • @ninademci1500
      @ninademci1500 3 года назад

      simonsays90, I didn't realize it.

    • @samsmusichub
      @samsmusichub 3 года назад +2

      That's hella cool!

    • @israelpartisan9927
      @israelpartisan9927 3 года назад

      Wait, do you mean the Canadarm?

    • @crystalwings4520
      @crystalwings4520 3 года назад

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

    • @skydivejumprope
      @skydivejumprope 3 года назад +8

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

  • @lucyandpaige1
    @lucyandpaige1 Год назад +10

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

    • @jamesbarnard9710
      @jamesbarnard9710 10 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @leelunk8235
      @leelunk8235 4 месяца назад

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

  • @lyndonfisher299
    @lyndonfisher299 Год назад +4

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

  • @michaelbarlow6610
    @michaelbarlow6610 3 года назад +1210

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

    • @EVRose60
      @EVRose60 3 года назад +22

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

    • @Paula-kc1lu
      @Paula-kc1lu 3 года назад +14

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

    • @EVRose60
      @EVRose60 3 года назад +41

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

    • @markpalumbo129
      @markpalumbo129 3 года назад +2

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

    • @mazenbraika2069
      @mazenbraika2069 3 года назад +8

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

  • @kristiross2387
    @kristiross2387 3 года назад +907

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

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 года назад +5

      Yes, same here!

    • @tiffprendergast
      @tiffprendergast 3 года назад +2

      Yup

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 года назад +3

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

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 года назад +4

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

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 3 года назад +6

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

  • @robbesebesta3818
    @robbesebesta3818 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @bieassialaw6832
    @bieassialaw6832 4 года назад +237

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

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 года назад +22

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

    • @Prettywhite4awhiteguy
      @Prettywhite4awhiteguy 4 года назад +15

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

    • @jdbarr769
      @jdbarr769 4 года назад +4

      @@neuralmute We were 5th grade.

    • @PipimiOden
      @PipimiOden 4 года назад +6

      @Egg T cause everything IS scary

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 года назад +7

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

  • @Sadarsa
    @Sadarsa 4 года назад +74

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

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 4 года назад +2

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

    • @pat5star
      @pat5star 4 года назад

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

    • @kjlandon9140
      @kjlandon9140 4 года назад

      also the gulf war. why was that a thing

  • @alk3myst
    @alk3myst 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @user-oe4dk6sb5u
    @user-oe4dk6sb5u Год назад +2

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

    • @ko7577
      @ko7577 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @sonyagriffy
    @sonyagriffy 3 года назад +109

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

    • @anthonyjolly6868
      @anthonyjolly6868 3 года назад +4

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

    • @alanewalton9258
      @alanewalton9258 3 года назад +4

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

    • @Holytoaster
      @Holytoaster 3 года назад +1

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

    • @emla15
      @emla15 3 года назад +2

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

    • @KJ_PhD
      @KJ_PhD 3 года назад

      Oh how awful

  • @gopdiva
    @gopdiva 3 года назад +672

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

    • @jockoharpo2622
      @jockoharpo2622 3 года назад +4

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

    • @shannonpharr1451
      @shannonpharr1451 3 года назад +14

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

    • @gopdiva
      @gopdiva 3 года назад +23

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

    • @judydelisle5290
      @judydelisle5290 3 года назад +3

      @@gopdiva good story🙏💕

    • @BJenny38
      @BJenny38 3 года назад +6

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

  • @tamezjohn4805
    @tamezjohn4805 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @edmondlau511
    @edmondlau511 Год назад +22

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

  • @jimsmith8797
    @jimsmith8797 3 года назад +845

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

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 года назад +13

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

    • @peachcash709
      @peachcash709 2 года назад +90

      @@sarawiddle6094 oh shut up

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 года назад +2

      Peach, I hope you change your life to.

    • @meowky4001
      @meowky4001 2 года назад +56

      @@sarawiddle6094 yes shut up

    • @sarawiddle6094
      @sarawiddle6094 2 года назад +2

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

  • @ihbarddx
    @ihbarddx 4 года назад +120

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

    • @jeremyr722
      @jeremyr722 3 года назад +5

      That sounds awful

    • @ihbarddx
      @ihbarddx 3 года назад +2

      @@jeremyr722 Yeah. Shoulda been there.

    • @vibes8k299
      @vibes8k299 3 года назад +1

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

  • @geoffreyhunnicutt488
    @geoffreyhunnicutt488 Год назад +1

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

  • @lanagorgeous9485
    @lanagorgeous9485 Год назад +1

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

  • @jasonhoward9554
    @jasonhoward9554 3 года назад +113

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

    • @dm9489
      @dm9489 3 года назад

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

    • @dondark6423
      @dondark6423 3 года назад

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

    • @alanmaclaren4366
      @alanmaclaren4366 3 года назад

      @@dondark6423 because it was an “accident”

    • @AthenaGM
      @AthenaGM 3 года назад

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

    • @salvitoripopadillo4539
      @salvitoripopadillo4539 3 года назад

      @@byyykusto YES! I found another truth seeker!

  • @mariewoelfel6936
    @mariewoelfel6936 3 года назад +166

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

    • @nickhalden9220
      @nickhalden9220 3 года назад +4

      She is still alive

    • @TeleCaster66
      @TeleCaster66 3 года назад +3

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

    • @kbcoop3249
      @kbcoop3249 3 года назад

      Haha

    • @marissa8190
      @marissa8190 3 года назад +23

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

    • @laurencalabro3146
      @laurencalabro3146 3 года назад +3

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

  • @giraffezebra2698
    @giraffezebra2698 11 месяцев назад +24

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

  • @ninaharper6282
    @ninaharper6282 Год назад

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

  • @jamievoller7945
    @jamievoller7945 3 года назад +194

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

    • @Dobviews
      @Dobviews 3 года назад +6

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

    • @abaker2921
      @abaker2921 3 года назад +3

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

    • @thresagraham8181
      @thresagraham8181 3 года назад +1

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

    • @SnowFamilyOf4
      @SnowFamilyOf4 3 года назад +2

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

    • @jodibonds
      @jodibonds 3 года назад +1

      @Jamie Voller Titusville?

  • @zechariahsmith9347
    @zechariahsmith9347 3 года назад +230

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

    • @Notoriousnipple
      @Notoriousnipple 3 года назад +6

      Happens all the time. Especially in the corporate world.

    • @matrix9452
      @matrix9452 3 года назад

      Welcome to the 21st century.

    • @oneoldgit
      @oneoldgit 3 года назад +3

      Neither should Presidents and Prime Ministers overrule epidemic experts

    • @hanknorris5642
      @hanknorris5642 3 года назад

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

    • @almac2598
      @almac2598 3 года назад

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

  • @user-vn8tx8ro1e
    @user-vn8tx8ro1e 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @VegasTigger
    @VegasTigger Год назад +3

    I watched it live from about a two-mile distance south of it... I remember feeling the blast and watching the sand ripple from the shockwave.

  • @John-cy9nf
    @John-cy9nf 4 года назад +235

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

    • @mikedlc9766
      @mikedlc9766 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/4TJVhdPtEkE/видео.html

    • @joesigl3022
      @joesigl3022 4 года назад

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

    • @tharshope8203
      @tharshope8203 4 года назад +2

      I watched in English class--

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 4 года назад +1

      Does "grade school" mean "elementary school"?

    • @crystalwings4520
      @crystalwings4520 4 года назад

      @@mikedlc9766 No one cares

  • @allaboutBlueBerry
    @allaboutBlueBerry 4 года назад +250

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

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 4 года назад +16

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

    • @ukmedicfrcs
      @ukmedicfrcs 4 года назад +17

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

    • @randominternetprofile8270
      @randominternetprofile8270 4 года назад +15

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

    • @allaboutBlueBerry
      @allaboutBlueBerry 4 года назад +10

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

    • @topguniceman14
      @topguniceman14 4 года назад +18

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

  • @vintageschumacher
    @vintageschumacher Год назад +1

    I watched it happen live on TV 😢 I was at home after rushing home from school to watch, I always try to watch the shuttle take off and land. I even remember the emotions i felt watching 37 years ago

  • @bryceirwin9919
    @bryceirwin9919 4 года назад +125

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

    • @lavenderflowersfall280
      @lavenderflowersfall280 4 года назад +3

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

    • @gerardcowan155
      @gerardcowan155 4 года назад +9

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

    • @elijahculper5522
      @elijahculper5522 4 года назад +6

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

    • @jamesanderson6373
      @jamesanderson6373 4 года назад

      Who is Christina?

    • @jamesanderson6373
      @jamesanderson6373 4 года назад +2

      You mean Christa?

  • @Reignor99
    @Reignor99 3 года назад +125

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

    • @thealaskanforever
      @thealaskanforever 3 года назад +2

      What’s the documentary called

    • @KushClarkKent
      @KushClarkKent 3 года назад +5

      @@thealaskanforever Challenger: The Final Flight

    • @TeleCaster66
      @TeleCaster66 3 года назад +2

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

    • @nobodyatallvallejo3672
      @nobodyatallvallejo3672 3 года назад

      @@TeleCaster66 how did she survive the explosion? 🧐

    • @Lion-mu7vu
      @Lion-mu7vu 3 года назад +3

      @@nobodyatallvallejo3672 Nah he’s just a looney

  • @user-yb2qy6gu7x
    @user-yb2qy6gu7x 9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @joys9791
    @joys9791 Год назад +1

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

  • @annapineda6826
    @annapineda6826 4 года назад +28

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

  • @richardgibson3160
    @richardgibson3160 4 года назад +509

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

    • @chevyon37s
      @chevyon37s 4 года назад +86

      Because it’s a government program.

    • @aerofiles5044
      @aerofiles5044 4 года назад +12

      @@chevyon37s well nasa itself is a civilian program

    • @robertlaube574
      @robertlaube574 4 года назад +20

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

    • @bepythebear2077
      @bepythebear2077 4 года назад +3

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

    • @garage9283
      @garage9283 4 года назад +6

      Bepy The Bear ohmanwhatanidiotyouare

  • @TaharkahX
    @TaharkahX Год назад +2

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

  • @MrArcadia2009
    @MrArcadia2009 Год назад +1

    My sister was constantly watching a clip of the explosion when I got home from school. Another teacher had told me this, (whispered to me while I was in a different class) but I hadn't quite believed it at the time.

  • @delagum1
    @delagum1 3 года назад +106

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

  • @mountainmandale1587
    @mountainmandale1587 3 года назад +274

    Living on Merritt Island and watching the Challenger blow up from my back yard was a life changing event.

    • @fionn8265
      @fionn8265 3 года назад +11

      Jeez

    • @CravensBen
      @CravensBen 3 года назад +13

      I can only imagine.

    • @Infinity-pc6jv
      @Infinity-pc6jv 3 года назад +5

      I was inside when it happened making Food for my kids it was a tragedy until I saw it on TV

    • @jennifercapps105
      @jennifercapps105 3 года назад +3

      @Hello Mountain how are you doing

    • @benhartart9487
      @benhartart9487 3 года назад +2

      did it make you hate the man? life changing for those onboard forsure

  • @brianfisher7385
    @brianfisher7385 Год назад

    The first shuttle launch I remember. I was at my elementary school playground. Floresta elementary in Port St. Lucie Florida. Close enough to see from the ground. The whole school was outside to see the launch. I was in first grade. I vividly remember all the teachers crying and hugging each other as they realized what happened. I will never forget that day as long as I live.

  • @gilavalos2400
    @gilavalos2400 10 месяцев назад

    The space shuttle challenger disaster is one of the few historical event that is etched into my mind. I was in the sixth grade watching this live while at school.

  • @stephenbusby424
    @stephenbusby424 2 года назад +487

    The Netflix documentary on this was one of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. It was beautifully produced and it didn’t shy away from the difficult bits.
    I must admit, I was in tears when Dick Scobee’s wife described their walk on the beach, the night before launch, and how they loved each other so much. I hope all of their loved ones found peace.

    • @sugarjoe50
      @sugarjoe50 2 года назад +3

      NASA f**ked up BIG TIME.

    • @ChassityNOubre_88
      @ChassityNOubre_88 2 года назад +10

      What's the name of the documentary

    • @ladesigner8764
      @ladesigner8764 2 года назад +13

      NASA is corrupt. Horrific. Negligence and men not doing what they should have done. Sally Ride is a hero. Great doc on Netflix.

    • @jul30ie
      @jul30ie 2 года назад +5

      I agree. I have watched the series several times. It’s a story of human sacrifice that should have been prevented but how it happened could, and did, happen again.
      The series balances it all brilliantly.

    • @stephenbusby424
      @stephenbusby424 2 года назад +1

      @Jay Boom stop talking shite dude. You’re of course entitled to believe any crackpot conspiracy you want, but stop trying to spread your bullshit ideas to everyone else. There is a fine line between being open minded and being completely mental.
      I don’t even want to know what NASAs supposed justification was for faking the deaths of 7 people.

  • @tagootuesday6521
    @tagootuesday6521 4 года назад +221

    Boy I sure wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall in the Sesame Street meeting

    • @tagootuesday6521
      @tagootuesday6521 4 года назад +2

      Nobody Business do you guys think I literally meant being a fly on the wall? Lmao

    • @tagootuesday6521
      @tagootuesday6521 4 года назад +1

      Nobody Business thanks for telling me what Pac-Man means, my head just exploded lol

    • @yamira.737
      @yamira.737 4 года назад

      @Nobody Business ew anti vaxxer

    • @joeyknight8272
      @joeyknight8272 4 года назад

      @Nobody Business you know that you sound crazy?

    • @joeyknight8272
      @joeyknight8272 4 года назад

      @Nobody Business lol I don't even like TV or spider man