STS-51L - Barbara Morgan Watches the Launch and Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger
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A NASA camera records Teach-In-Space backup and future astronaut Barbara Morgan as she watches the launch and explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The teacher Christa McAuliffe and six other astronauts perished in the accident. The video includes the ambient (normal) sound of the KSC press site area. This video has not been processed beyond the FOIA disclaimer at the end.
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I just deleted a bunch of offensive (and stupid) comments from this video, despite my policy of letting people comment freely. But not with this video and not with this tragedy. Please feel free to comment further though, as long as it's kept, well.... I don't want displays of disgusting behavior. I'll have to approve comments before they're posted, but so long as they're not profanity-laced or ignorant, I'll let them through. Thanks.
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@plotkin514 At that ditance, you wouldn't really hear an explosion, and it would come about 45 seconds later...
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The only area NASA needs help in is "risk assesment". Read the story about STS 27, we almost lost a shuttle on re-entry, and it was only the SECOND FLIGHT BACK after the Challenger.
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@69adrummer maybe you should do some research on the progresses made because of NASA. Improved Mammogram technology is one of the most important.
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@GTElwood I agree...its eerie, very upsetting...because it totally vaporizes. =[
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Earing Challenger's noise stopping suddenly ... give me bad feelings even if happened 25y ago.
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69adrummer...not as big as your footprint when you put it in your mouth.
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@RK831 I'm glad I came across your comment. I didnt know the back up teacher wet up 21 years later. They should inform people about this fact, as it gives some kind of closier to the tragedy that happened that sad day in 1986. She continued the dream and accomplished the mission that didnt happen. I'm sure Christa and the crew would be very proud.......
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NASA is also the world's foremost organization (along with NOAA) for climate change research. Not to mention medical research. Not to mention the extensive education outreach helping our schools, especially minority and underserved schools. ETC. Those "wasted billions" helped a lot of people and saved far more lives than it has cost. And it holds the key to the future of the human race beyond warring, famine and poverty. The "money spent in space" DOES help the poor on Earth.
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@69adrummer a lot less than the Iraq and Afghan wars.
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I wonder what NASA's carbon footprint is after all these years and wasted billions and lives.
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21 years later, Barbara did go up in space, in STS-118 on the Shuttle Endeavour, but unceremoniously as a regular Mission Specialist and not as the backup teacher in space. Still, she did what Christa didn't: complete a mission.
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The vehicle breakup occurred, as i've read, at 73 seconds after liftoff. I can't tell exactly when liftoff occurs in this video, but counting forward from 0:12, the event occurs at about 1:25. Give the observers in the video a few seconds to realize what has occurred, indeed, at 1:40 a man says "that's not right".
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when it explodes, you can actually heard the boosters careening off
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Thank Goodness is this video is back on You Tube. May The Challenger 7 forever Rest in Peace.
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