Imagine waking up after being hit by 200 g-forces, falling 28 miles high leaving with major injuries from the explosion, and then impacting the ocean at exactly 207 mph, I can't imagine how scary that could be.
i was a witness to history. happened to be in Coca Beach that particular morning. very cold morning. many observers lucky enough to be in the stands that morning were all wondering if it was safe to launch in such unusual cold weather. i heard one of the family members of one of the crew members say they had a bad omen about the flight. "one problem after another, delay after delay, and now it is bone chilling cold, very unusual for Florida...maybe someone upstairs is trying to send us a message that this should not happen?" I'll never forget that.
They said that up until then, Challenger was considered the most reliable shuttle. It's worth thinking that while both Challenger and Columbia are now both synonymous with their accidents, neither orbiter was directly to blame. Rather what was attached onto it. The orbiters themselves were very successful vehicles.
I remember seeing this - I had not heard the news during the day - and the newsreader saying 'Disaster in space - the shuttle explodes' right after the opening titles was unforgettable
@John19182004 What's so strange about that? "Called" is a usual way of describing the name of something... i.e. what was the teacher called? She was called Christa. What was the shuttle called? It was called Challenger.
Does anyone else think that with all the problems beforehand, including the electric drill not working, that a Higher Being was saying "This shuttle must not take off"?
Apparently what delivered the _coup de grace_ was a slug of aluminium oxide that had lodged itself in the gap opened by the flexing of the SRB segments that weren't sealed by the O-ring - preventing an explosion on the pad - was finally dislodged during a high-altitude course correction on account of an unusually strong jet stream. Looking up at the SRB contrails, and you could see that sharp course correction.
4:36 John Glenn' wad America's 3rd man in space, behind Grissom and Shepard. He was the first American to orbit. As Jordan Ramsey would say " come on, get it right....bloody hell!!"
+thepod96 Probably wouldn't phrase it that way, we'd say something like "including teacher Christa McAuliffe". Neither is better or worse than the other. Just different.
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Imagine waking up after being hit by 200 g-forces, falling 28 miles high leaving with major injuries from the explosion, and then impacting the ocean at exactly 207 mph, I can't imagine how scary that could be.
i was a witness to history. happened to be in Coca Beach that particular morning. very cold morning. many observers lucky enough to be in the stands that morning were all wondering if it was safe to launch in such unusual cold weather. i heard one of the family members of one of the crew members say they had a bad omen about the flight. "one problem after another, delay after delay, and now it is bone chilling cold, very unusual for Florida...maybe someone upstairs is trying to send us a message that this should not happen?" I'll never forget that.
They said that up until then, Challenger was considered the most reliable shuttle. It's worth thinking that while both Challenger and Columbia are now both synonymous with their accidents, neither orbiter was directly to blame. Rather what was attached onto it. The orbiters themselves were very successful vehicles.
100% true.
I remember seeing this - I had not heard the news during the day - and the newsreader saying 'Disaster in space - the shuttle explodes' right after the opening titles was unforgettable
Bad day for the news to have a triumphant space-themed title sequence
It still gives me the chills. A disaster that never should have happened.
@John19182004 What's so strange about that? "Called" is a usual way of describing the name of something... i.e. what was the teacher called? She was called Christa. What was the shuttle called? It was called Challenger.
The scary thing is this could have been prevented same with Columbia...
Does anyone else think that with all the problems beforehand, including the electric drill not working, that a Higher Being was saying "This shuttle must not take off"?
No.
Apparently what delivered the _coup de grace_ was a slug of aluminium oxide that had lodged itself in the gap opened by the flexing of the SRB segments that weren't sealed by the O-ring - preventing an explosion on the pad - was finally dislodged during a high-altitude course correction on account of an unusually strong jet stream. Looking up at the SRB contrails, and you could see that sharp course correction.
If it's a person, however, usually the word named is used, i.e "a teacher named Christa"...difference of convention but I seem to think it makes sense
@John19182004 Well what else would you say? "A teacher apparently called..."?
They call John Glenn the "first American in space"...
LM5 - do you have either of the following BBC TV programmes on tape?
Horizon - Riding the Stack
Panorama - The Dream That Fell Out of the Sky.
yes I do on old vhs somewhere!
They would be great to see on you tube. I have them on VHS as well but they are very poor quality.
4:36 John Glenn' wad America's 3rd man in space, behind Grissom and Shepard. He was the first American to orbit. As Jordan Ramsey would say " come on, get it right....bloody hell!!"
In This Clip, From 0:12 To 1:32, It Was BBC-TV's BBC News' The 9 O'Clock News Video Open From Tuesday Night, January 28, 1986.
How could any at nasa not see all the flaws in pre flight and the flames about the shuttle erupting
L.M.5..... I love you.
3:27 if only Martin Bell knew how right he was at the time...
What even was that parachute?
The nose section of a rocket booster.
The parachute was a medic who parachuted from a plane.
Reagan: "We'll honour the dead, by going ahead. Well that's what I said, we're going ahead. Spread!"
Leastwise, that's what the music suggested to me. I thought we'd hear a Reagan song, sung to '80s synth music.
+thepod96 Probably wouldn't phrase it that way, we'd say something like "including teacher Christa McAuliffe". Neither is better or worse than the other. Just different.
Very true. :)
But we Texans have butchered the language!!!
HOwever, we're still grateful for the language. Thanks friend!
What's a progrum?
a teacher "called" Christa McAuliffe.. the Brits have such a strange way of speaking!
John19182004 Hello, I'm six years late to this but WTF are you talking about John?
He thinks it should be "named" not "called" but I've heard plenty of Americans use "called".
In This Clip, From 0:12 To 1:32, It Was BBC-TV's BBC News' The 9 O'Clock News Video Open From Tuesday Night, January 28, 1986.