1986: CNN's coverage of the Challenger explosion

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1. Powerful, to say the least.
2. sad day
3. Earth has a DOME.. NOBODY CAN GET OU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ja ja ja ja ja ja NASA SHIT FAKERS!
4. FLAT EARTH... fremasons hoax ... NOBOY OUT ON " SPACE"..... all original astronouts are FINE and working in USA SOIL!!!!!!!! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!! Dont fall fro CNN SHIT LIERS!
5. Prepared specialist and really expensive materials was destroyed, because some lazy mind, which think: "fuck it, it will do...". And in whole world we have realy stupid and lazy people, which don't care about future.
6. so sad 😔 💔💔
7. Where those typewriters I heard in the studio?
8. Historic. Sad. I watched the live event with the entire 7th grade. It was an assembly event because of teacher Christa McAuliffe's notoriety. I was particularly interested in the Challenger launch because my childhood dream at 4th grade was to be an astronaut - (even though by 7th grade I wasn't clinging as strongly to that career goal anymore. Still, to this day, I love space topics and read articles all the time.) Anyway, I'll never forget the reaction of my science teacher, Ms. Brook, who hosted the drummed-up event in her own classroom jam-packed with all three 7th grade classes. It started as a party atmosphere - a leisurely break from the monotony of whatever classes we were regularly scheduled to attend that day. Heightened anticipation before the launch, the excited countdown in unison, an amazing and mind-blowing liftoff, the dramatic cheers, and then the side chatter throughout the room while the post-climactic ascent continued through the sky. That is... until the strange smoke suddenly appeared to fly everywhere. Boosters seemed to be traveling in separate directions; but we had lost visibility to the shuttle carrying our courageous crew. "Where is it?" The room got quieter, and we - puzzled - turned to Ms. Brook for some hint of whether the plumes of smoke on the TV screen were routine. Maybe a stage-2-separation type of activity? She was also unsure, trying to digest what the TV was showing; but she was still a thought-step or two ahead of us. Her widening eyes and uncertain lips felt increasingly more alarming. The delay in feedback from the newscasters, combined with the shift in her facial reactions, had the equal effect of slowly erasing the hopeful chance in our minds, that what we had just seen was somehow not as bad as the morbid ideas that our imaginations were letting on. Her gradual understanding slowly became ours, as we hesitated to realize the malicious magnitude of what had just happened before our eyes. She shrieked once confirmation came through. Sobbing, her knees buckled, and she lost the strength to stand straight. She had to be supported and comforted by Mr. Williams, another 7th grade teacher. It was surreal, and had a chain effect. There was no more doubt by then; only an unfriendly, unwelcomed depression over the entire room, the entire day. The celebratory excitement following lift-off had quickly and tragically morphed between bizarre states of shock, confusion, disbelief, horror... and tears. And it all happened in the brief space of only a few minutes.
   
   It was a very rare, unmatched scholastic experience.
   
   Thanks for the upload. As tragic a period in space history as it was, it paved future successes for the space program and our relentless curiosity of the skies.
9. They didnt die when the explosion happend they died when they hit the water.
10. message!!!!
11. shit man i remember my teacher playing this on the tv when i was a kid
12. Does anyone on earth have the unaltered television footage of the explosion? That darker, grainier side view at the moment of explosion was cut in later on during that day. The original scene of the disaster was one continuous shot.
13. It's a little weird to see CNN before they were bought and paid for by the Democratic party. No one is blaming the Republican party for the explosion.
14. Ray Ramono @1:48
15. When CNN was CNN and not a bias corporation run well at least on this clip.
16. Challenger was shot down by a Protoss Carrier for the security of Aiur.
17. I would have only been 3 and a half when this happened
18. A high school teacher was in that rocket 😭😭😭😭😭 I read about this in my school
19. @1:13 It's a scorpion!
20. I was 11 yrs old living in Orlando fla.... sad day in US History