Challenger: A Rush To Launch

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1. I was not born yet, and therefore, ineffectual in a resolution to this disaster... that is my sin.
2. Challenger go at throttle up.. :(
3. Allan McDonald, greatguy but come on, he practically narrates the entire thing and rambles on and on and on and on and on (and on...?)
4. Umm, Challenger wore the NASA "Worm" logo, not the "meatball" logo.
5. I still don`t understand why they did not wait..Money?
6. Thanks for putting this up .
7. Desperately sad - and frighteningly unnecessary.
8. Jim
9. Managers should not make engineering decisions. Ever.
   Management IS NOT the place where engineering decisions should be made.
   MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE SUBORDINATE to the engineers. ALWAYS.
10. Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and ALL LIERS -- they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
    Psalm 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
    1 Chronicles 16:30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
    "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. (From the NIV Bible, Isaiah 40:22)"
11. 38:50 They got the seating arrangement wrong. Ellison Onizuka was actually seated on the flight deck. Ronald McNair was on the mid deck, next to the hatch.
12. blatant disregard for safety & human life. period.
13. http://www.grahammedia.com/news/2016/2/1/wjxt-presents-challenger-a-rush-to-launch
14. Nasa should had implemented a policy of no shuttle launches in the month of January and that would have probably eliminated the cold weather factor in decision making process of rather to go through with a launch or not. But there again, cold temperatures like this are extremely rare in Florida but not unheard of.
15. Damn, it's not on IMDB. Still, it's a really good documentary.
16. Lord repose of the souls of those brave people
17. No matter all the engineering we think we know. Mother nature is always one step ahead with her's. This is the first I heard about the jet stream that day and see the shuttle being pushed liked that. Amazing Great documentary.
18. go fever...
19. NASA of the 1960's would have never let this major malfunction happen.
    Back then the engineers and the technicians had the last word, and they were the ones to give the green light.
    Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs worked that way without a failure on their boosters.
    Redstone/Atlas, Titan II, and Saturn boosters would only launch if they had a green light from the engineers and technicians,
    because they are the ones who made them and they know all about it , and 99% they are always right.
    
    With today's NASA's policy and minds...we would have put a man on the top of that Vanguard rocket back in 1958 to beat the Russian's. Tragic and shame for what happened to Challenger and Columbia. RIP.
20. Wo produced this, what are the sources?