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*Judy Resnik

@@judylijdsman thanks. I corrected it. I knew her name was Judy. It must have been the damn autocorrect.

No and the next year, the shuttle program and a 7 member crew (including 2 seen in this film, Resnik and Scobee, paid a huge price.

Nothing they could do about damage that happened immediately after takeoff

@@prideb4caffeine999 I'm not talking about the Challenger Disaster, I'm talking about the 2003 Columbia Disaster.

@@ILoveOldTWC The Columbia accident was ultimately caused by damage to the orbiter’s heatshield that occurred *after* liftoff. Inspecting the thermal protection system before that wasn’t going to make a difference in whether they’d be struck by large pieces of external fuel tank insulation later. Edit: The tragedy of STS-107 had a precursor years prior. In 1988, Atlantis received extensive damage to its heat shield under uncannily similar circumstances to what would eventually happen to Columbia. Chunks of insulation on the external tank broke off during the launch of STS-27 and at supersonic speeds, struck the underside of the orbiter like a shotgun blast. It was significant enough that Houston had them inspect the heat shield while in orbit using the Canadarm, and the low resolution caused them to dismiss it as “lights and shadows”. Higher resolution could not be used because they were flying a DoD payload for the military. The crew, on the other hand, spent those days believing that they wouldn’t survive reentry. The commander, a Navy captain named Robert Gibson, even said later that he planned to spend his last moments giving them a piece of his mind if the instruments started indicating anything resembling an imminent structural failure. Long story short, this was one of the fatal design flaws of the space shuttle. Being a side mounted spaceplane seriously narrowed options for crew escape in emergency situations while having more potential for failure during launch.

In footage of the launch of STS-107, you can even see the moment it happened (approx 85 seconds after liftoff). It’s not obvious, but you can’t unsee it. It’s chilling if you think about it. The 2003 incident was the reason that every flight afterwards until the program’s conclusion had a live feed of the belly of the orbiter from a camera mounted on the external tank.

Inspecting the orbiter’s Thermal Protection System *before* flight was not going to guard those heatshield tiles from getting struck by large chunks of insulation from the External Tank later, during launch, which was what ultimately caused the Columbia disaster. In 1988, Atlantis received damage to its heatshield under circumstances uncannily similar to what would eventually happen to Columbia in 2003. During the launch of STS-27 (only the second flight following the two year grounding after Challenger) large bits of foam insulation broke off of the ET and struck the underside of the spacecraft, which at those speeds would have been like a giant shotgun blast. It concerned Houston enough to have the crew use the Canadarm to inspect the underside of Atlantis while in orbit, but the low resolution imagery was later dismissed as “lights and shadows”. Higher resolution was not allowed because of the nature of that mission, which flew a Department of Defense payload. The five man crew didn’t agree and spent those days believing they wouldn’t survive reentry, which thankfully, they did, even though seven others wouldn’t have the same fortune 15 years later. The mission commander later said that during reentry, if the cockpit instruments started indicating anything resembling an imminent structural failure, he planned to spend his last moments informing Mission Control what he thought of their assessment. One of the great design flaws of the space shuttle was how vulnerable it was to potentially catastrophic failure during launch along with the heavily limited options for crew escape during emergency situations.

Yep. CGI in 1985. No. This was filmed on 70mm film on IMAX Cameras to be shown on multi-story tall IMAX Theater Screens!!! DERP! 🤪

@@fookingsogDisney Production Green Screen CGI nonsense, you have to be a boomer still living on a prayer that it was true! Wake up old timer it was as fake as Marry Poplins 🤣

Oh neat I didn't know that, I remember watching it as a kid in imax and it always being my favorite

And it didn't get an updated film scan either, there's so many issues with Gate Weave and color, I took a pass at both of those things using the Blu-ray file over on my channel, some decent results. A full film rescan using today's technology is what the film really needs though.

@@slabvisuals Just had a look. Fantastic work!

​@Jebediah4002 Thanks for posting this vidya!!! I believe this is the one I watched at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC during my 8th. Grade Class Trip!!! If my memory serves me correctly I bought the soundtrack for this video--but I think I got it at the Cape Canaveral Gift Shop a number of years later!!! Thanks for the Memories!!! Instant Sub Here!!! 🤗

But I am thankful that it’s right here on TH-cam for the whole world to see

Not sure but if I had to guess either that or a planet in the distance

It might be earth . The famous pale blue dot image.

Lol right now i'm checking out obscure documentaries from the library and putting them on here, its been fun

@@Jebediah4002 I knew it--I KNEW IT! Jeb and documentaries are merging.

Ugh you're right, now my brain is hurting

I can boot up my save because I'm pretty sure I made a bunch of saves to be able to to go back and reference so ill check tonight

I know right, it hurt to do

i get atached to my colonist and talk to them (im maniac help

Same

"There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human. These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents." I dunno, turning your pawns into gods doesn't seem boring to me.

It's from a mod called SRTS expanded, kind of spoiled to it now, takes a lot of research and materials to build but it's a gamechanger, you can also load mortar shells into it and do bombing runs