Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion disaster. All 7 crew members died in 73 seconds
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida at 11:38 EST (16:38 UTC). Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRBs aft attachment and the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces broke up the orbiter. The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and recovery operation. The exact timing of the death of the crew is unknown; several crew members are known to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft. The shuttle had no escape system, and the impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was too violent to be survivable
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r.i.p to those poor souls
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heart breaking to see the family members watching their loved ones die.. RIP Challenger crew
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Why is the old man smiling? Like wtf?
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neffer
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still crying 30 years later
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may teacher told me the story.she was in 5th grade
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The crew cabin survived the blast and took two minutes to fall to the ocean. It was traveling at 200+ mph when it hit and evidence showed several members had activated their oxygen, something they had to do manually. They were alive during the two minute fall and died due to the 200 mph impact.
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This really shocked me when it happened. I had thought that NASA was made up of the best of the best, and that they were, if anything, excessively cautious. I thought something like this was virtually impossible, and the biggest danger was re-entry. When I head the explosion described on the radio, I thought it might still be possible for them to have landed in Africa, as was the plan if they failed to achieve orbit. I had to attend a class, but when I got out and saw the footage on TV, I changed my hope to the instant deaths of the crew. That didn't happen, obviously, but death came so soon after a violent shock (and depressurization) that hopefully they did not suffer much.
Prayer, such as is indicated by the Sign of the Cross at 2:31, is the only appropriate immediate reaction. In the aftermath, however, the reaction needed to include changes to the institutional culture. When Columbia broke up, I was more outraged than shocked, because obviously there had not been enough change to that institutional complacency. My fears of re-entry had sadly been vindicated. -
FAKE!
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As a few stated many experts believe they survived the initial explosion and were conscious as the crew cabin continued to rise about 15,000 more feet after the explosion before it's almost 3 min descent from about 65,000 feet (the fuel tank explosion happened at about 44,000 feet). I can't imagine the hell that descent must have been. Horrific tragedy. RIP.
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Weren't there any parachutes attached to the crew cabin?
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It was so confusing & sad to watch those family members. Difficult to tell what was excitement & what was horror coming from them. Wish they had not turned the cameras on the families & just left them in peace.
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They died when the intact crew compartment struck the ocean at 203 mph. They lived for the entire 2:45 of descent.
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The two astronauts who survived the explosion where Judy Resnik and Ellison Onizuka, they said that the pilot Mike Smith peap was activated by Onizuka or Resnik. As far as the remaining astronauts we don't know if thet were dead or just knock out but one the is sure they were all alive just before they hit the ocean.
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are this real?
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Ain't nothing like watching parents grieve over a dead child. Thanks for posting and making a buck off of misery. SCUMBAG.
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Insane
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so sad...
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They found evidence that at least two of the crew survived the explosion and died when the crew compartment struck the ocean over three minutes later. They found valves to two of the emergency oxygen supplies. Which both read in between 3/4 to 7/8 used.
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