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- The broadcast of ABC News Nightline from January 28, 1986, on the day of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Segments include discussing President Ronald Reagan's speech to the nation, the reaction from Washington, profiles of the deceased astronauts, and interviews with Col. Chuck Yeager, former shuttle astronaut Sen. Jake Garn, author Ray Bradbury, and other space exploration experts.
Such a first-class production. No interruption, no snide commentary from the anchor, and a perfect pacing of the hour. Nightline was a high-water mark.
Good evening, I'm Ted Koppel and this... is Nightline.
Nightline was a great program. There was more depth than you see now on similar shows.
I miss news programs like this. Just give me the facts and let me decide. Today's shows are more like a bunch of gossipy teens tearing down each other's cliques. I recently saw an anchor and his guests literally mocking and making fun of people who didn't agree with them. It's sad.
This is when watching the news actually made you smarter.
Amen!
Thank you preserving this video, it's amazing to see how things have changed since then.
I was a space loving second grader at that point and my mom was an elementary school teacher, so that launch seemed like the most momentous thing yet in my life; so excited...
I'll never forget my teacher abruptly turning off the tv and trying to explain in a comforting way that things don't always go as planned; teachers really deserve more pay, then and now.💙🖤
We have this on VHS somewhere at home, been trying to track it down..Thank you for putting this one up..
This is when watching the news actually made you smarter.
Future does not belong to the faint hearted, it belong to the brave - Ronald Reagan. 🇺🇸
Peggy Noonan*
I rermember the Challenger explosion. I was in high school when it happened. I remember coming back from Lunch that day asking my teacher why some off my schoolmates were so upset and crying and she told me that the Challenger had exploded and that hit me like a punch in the stomach.
I don't think I could ever get on one of those things... Besides... You see the blackness of space.. No real sunrise, sunset.. Feel the wind in your face or see a blue sky.. Or even feel the touch of green grass or see beautiful flowers... We need to save mother earth...
Here's to the DAREDEVILS. They with the very GUTS that most of the rest of us find lacking in ourselves! Exploration [of any kind] should NEVER become routine.
"graceful white tendrills of smoke" -- that's a weird description, given the circumstances
Well it wasn’t black smoke
When the media showed it's "humanity."
not any more.
Many of us still want for those days to come back.
Thanks loads for this great video, YorkVid.
"The latest GRAPHIC television IMAGE" the one you keep showing every 5 minutes!
So many want to do something amazing and live to tell about it, but there are just some things we aren't meant to do. We also have to learn from our mistakes and prevent them from happening, again.
I'm in the UK, We watched this in Primary School we were 9 ..... I think we were watching because there was a teacher on board ? and our teachers were excited. We didn't understand why the teachers started crying and turned the telly off.
Good call, Ted....I've always thought the Space Shuttle clinging to the main external fuel tank looked like a moth on a wall.
I truly have little respect for Reagan’s policies and dealings in office but that guy really could communicate well, can’t deny that
I still do not know how the good anchors and presenters are so able to hold back the emotions you know they have. Admittedly this is from a different era of news, When a nation could look to the news for a sense of stability in hard or complex situation. And the presenters had to remain that stable pillar of normalcy even when the world veered away from normal.
9/11 was really the last time where you had the big 3 anchors providing that sense of stability as best as they could. But it clearly took a toll on them. Peter Jennings took up smoking which cost him his life 4 years later. Dan Rather broke down twice on his appearance on David Letterman the following week. Tom Brokaw didn’t have any sort of public breakdown but I seem to recall reading that he broke down in private after he left the anchor chair that first day.
Fuck I miss this type of reporting!
It was NASA's greed and pride that murdered 7 astronauts.
Pride and managerial ineptitude - yes, greed? No. NASA is not a for-profit organization
what use does it do? is anyone ever going to live on the moon or Mars? no
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don't forget the Columbia too
The Challenger explosion was there to remind us that we are a brave civilization & wanted to learn new things.
Wish we could have seen the warnings about the tradgic situations in New York, Washington D.C, & Pennsylvania in regards to the shuttles journeys.
Obviously a major malfunction…..you think?
I remember that day in 1986.
Alex Roland is set up to be the villain among the guests with his skeptical take on the effectiveness of manned space flight, but time has proved that he was absolutely correct. The space shuttle was a colossal waste of money and resources that never came remotely close to delivering on its potential, and it was also run in a slipshod fashion that directly caused the deaths of two crews of astronauts.
+epaddon He was on a mid-90's Discovery Channel documentary on the Shuttle program basically saying the same thing, as I recall. By then, it was clear that his viewpoint was right and this wasn't going to live up to its initial expectations. Here's the link to (at least) the first episode of that. th-cam.com/video/Y8I16m1jJGA/w-d-xo.html
Manned spaceflight is a funny thing. It's like a nuclear program, except colossally harder and more expensive. The fragile human crew is like eggshells vs. a nice sturdy bomb that can take 100g and doesn't need oxygen or warmth. Plus, you gotta haul the payload BACK to where it started from, intact, at the end of the flight. A single fully-functional nuclear device has somewhere around 26,500 discrete parts (so 50-60x more than your car). The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had 2.5 million parts, of which 1.1 million were considered "critical", as in their failure would probably destroy or cripple the vehicle (depending on when it occurred and to what degree).
The Shuttle was vastly more technically complicated than Apollo but nobody saw them as "exploring" anything new with the Shuttle so it never had the brainpower, funding, public interest, legislative support or institutional morale that the moon missions did. Full stop. A program that ends with a 1 in 3 catastrophic failure rate for the airframes is not a good program. The "Failure is not an option" days at NASA were definitely over by then.
@@YorkVid still these uploads are great please keep uploading
The gains that humanity made due to manned space flight is incalculable. Any unmanned exploration stands on the shoulders of the astronauts.
Graphics at the end came from the opening of "Cosmos". I know it well.
I disagree with the very premises.
We can spend Godzillions amount of money exploring space,yes I get it,I get excited too but we have all these super bright people yet we STILL dont have an engine that gets more than 40%+ fuel efficiency OR not run on fossil fuels at all.
We can pull together the best minds together to create a bomb that can kill millions as in the Manhattan Project but we cant do the same to invent a clean engine to clean up our air?
Especially in California where the mountains trap the auto pollution over LA?
That dude opposing manned space flight definitely has a point.
I don’t think his point was that solid in 1986 though a much better point today in 2023
The Jarvis family could hardly look at Sen Garn. He had pushed Jarvis to the Challenger flight so Garn could do his political stunt on Jarvis’ original flight.
"Obviously a major malfunction" gets me every time. No kidding.
My teacher shoed us this in second grade i was moved
The price of progress is high at times.
It’s all about infotainment now
I had been going to the track every day in NY beginning a week earlier and had just won a month's bills when I slept late on Tuesday, since there was no racing. I wake up to see the expoded ship on CNN and couldn't believe it. Reagan hatedit with they found the capsule because it ruined his "slipped the surly bonds of earth" line that sounded so heartfelt. It crashed. They might even have survived the impact.
Ray Gordon Teaches Chess No, the crew compartment hit at a speed of more than 250 mph, far beyond the limits of structural or human survivability.
Survived the impact? dafuq?
They'd love to know what 2024 would bring!!! Shout out to my main planet Mars
The way I feel about going into space is it's a total waste of life and money ...what have we really found pretty much nothing .....
Not interested
God, I miss Reagan. We haven't had a good President since.
He wasn't one either.
America thrived on the economy that Reagan created for nearly 3 DECADES. He also brought us out of the dark days of the 70's. How old are you?
@@Random_Number Just wait for kanye 2020
@@Random_Number It's telling that your only metric for a great president is economic. You maybe missed Iran-Contra.
@@BartAlder Very assumptive. Reagan brought this country out of, as Carter famously said, the "malaise" of the 70's. He more or less single-handedly saved America from the very dark fate we were headed toward. He did that not only economically, but also by reviving the country's morale. The 80's and 90's would have been MUCH different decades if not for Reagan.
As to your beef, whether Iran-Contra can be laid at the feet of Reagan is highly debatable. And ultimately, it's no different than what John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Obama did in terms of supplying weapons to terrorists (research Benghazi if you don't understand why) -- the only difference is that Reagan didn't sacrifice any Americans to cover his own ass, the way Clinton et al did.
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What an "original' comment. Jerkoff...
Drug dealers do it for money at 4.59, funny.
I laughed too.
It's like something Kent Brockman would say.
It's obvious that you were either very young or not even thought of due to your statements. You need to know your facts.
@@BrandiHilton-pq2km sounds like you are confused.
@@BrandiHilton-pq2km sounds like you are confused.
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib Confused about what? The Challenger Accident? Nope- I am not. We were young pre teens when the shuttle exploded. All 7 of them passed away. Apparently you weren't alive or even thought of yet when it exploded. 7 astronauts braved going into space to explore.