On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members on board. “It happened just over one minute into flight,” NBC’s Dan Molina reported that day on NBC Nightly News. “From mission control: silence.”
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So….they’re ok now right??
edit: aw craaaaaaap 😕
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I remember being in class watching this
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) dedicated to the memory of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger with the opening message: "The cast and crew of Star Trek wish to dedicated this film to the men and women of the spaceship Challenger whose courageous spirit shall live to the 23rd century and beyond…"
Fun fact: My Nan was a timber sales woman to a small agency, North American Space Agency, After the explosion of challenger she got letters from the North American Space Agency. I guess the fireproof wood tiling didn't work after Gwen..
i remembered i was one months old (a millennial Sagittarius person) during sleeping at my maternal great auntie Mildred's house in Hawkinstown, Baker County, Georgia,USA .why NBC,CBS,&ABC had interrupted its daytime programming for its coverage of the Challenger had exploded at Cape Canaveral . just one months after i was born at Mitchell County Hospital (now Archbold Mitchell County Hospital) in Camilla,GA,USA .i had sharing the same exact birthdate with:Anthony Dewayne Andrews (Decatur County,USA),Jessica Lauren Loyola Hurst,Kathryn Ann "Katie" Kennedy Sobeck,Wil Besseling,Tara Perry, Joanna Jablczynska, Rachel Heller, Saul "Flip" White, Jr., Eniola "Niyola" Akinbo, Julie Harshbarger
, Jon " Jujimufu" Call, Hannah Carnes DeNiro, Artyom Igorvich Umrikhin, Shun White, Davon Drew, Joel Kauffman, Vojtech Nemec, Rachel Heller, Denis Lagutenko, Ricardo Quevedo, Sheila Surban, Crystal Marcelle Matich Gippe, Ryan Phillip Hendrix,Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Sebastian Schneider,Cindy Lee Si-Nga,Kylee Reese [Tiffany Faren Bowyer], Olga Shuvalova,Collin Vock ,Davon Drew, Shun White,Jon "Jujimufu" Call, Tarabai [Edison Luiz dos Santos] ,Nathalie Jeuland, Adam Lidberg, Thomas Bleckert,Kalina Gutierrez, Aya Kamide ,Richárd Fiáth,Priya Chauhan,Jaime Sáez [Quiroz],Michael Crowell,Maria Zassypkina,Julien Delétraz, Priya Wal,& Mark Leech.and seven days after Martin Luther King Jr. Day had becomes the federal holiday. when the Challenger exploded on the same day as the births of the notable people:Jessica
Ennis-Hill,Shruti Haasan, Nathan Outteridge,Asad Shafiq,Miguel Torres Gómez,Blake Riley,Richard Demén-Willaume,Tadija Dragićević, Katharina Würmseer,Ms.Booksy [Clare Dill], Kelly Klein,Andre Senghor,Tommy DiDario, Nathan A.Jones,Kristine Gosa, and Marcin Dutkiewicz
Rip sir Micheal
kids that want to be a astronaut be like after watching this: I think I want to be a police
I remember this well, so sad for all the families left behind, watched it live on tv. My father worked for Rockwell in the early 80’s here in Australia 🇦🇺. This one will stay with me as the 9/11 terror attacks.
I’ll never forget this, I live in Delaware and it was brutally cold that morning. So cold in fact that many school buses wouldn’t start so after 45 minutes of waiting and my feet blistering cold I walked home and turned on CBS. Just as I turned it on the shuttle Challenger was about to lift off. I was the tragedy live on tv in 86 and my heart will always go out to the victims of this disaster. As I was watching YouTube moments ago and listening to the engineers and managers go back and forth DO WE OR DONT WE it amazes me the pressure that Americans put on each other to be successful regardless of the outcome 🙏🙏
I was being born on this day.
Sure she was a great teacher! Rest in peace 🫡 🕊️
lol
This is the day people at NASA had to drink Sprite because they couldn’t get 7-Up
My moms teacher was on there
I love this footage so much. Science doesn’t care. Doesn’t care how many kids were watching, doesn’t care a teacher was on board, doesn’t care how much time and money was spent. Physics baby
Also people aren’t supposed to be in space. This planet is ours – the galaxy is not
My God!!! Why do I have to see the kamala face on every youtube clip👿
inside job right thats wat you americans say when something happens lol
imagine being Christa's Substitute teacher.. Job Security.
I watched it live at 10 years old.. We joked about it for weeks after
They were death traps.
The shuttle programme was a vanity project doomed to fail from the outset.
Even the maiden flight was seconds away from catastrophe and the flawed design of the orbiters meant that each flight’s successful return was more to do with good fortune than any technological achievement.
All Ik is this wouldn’t have happened to me. I would’ve intervened somehow
"Tragedy"…..aka CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE!!!!
" NASA has appointed a committee of top Engineers & Scientists to investigate the tragedy "…….probably the same experts who had tried to forewarn NASA that launching after such a period of negative temperatures could be very risky!!!