Challenger Disaster Live on CNN

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Challenger Disaster Live on CNN

January 28th, 1986 at 11:39am EDT - The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes on its 10th flight during mission STS-51-L. The explosion occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and was actually the result of rapid deceleration and not combustion of fuel. CNN was the only national news station to broadcast the mission live, so thus what you are witnessing on this video is the only coverage of the disaster as it happened when it did. Approximately 17% of Americans witnessed the launch live, while 85% of Americans heard of the news within 1 hour of the event. According to a study, only 2 other times in history up to that point had news of an event disseminated so fast - the first being the announcement of JFK's assassination in 1963, the second being news spread among students at Kent State regarding the news of FDR's death in 1945. It has been estimated at the time that nearly 48% of 9-13 year olds witnessed the event in their classrooms, as McAuliffe was in the spotlight. The 25th Space Shuttle mission altered the history of manned space exploration and represented the first loss of an American crew during a space mission (Apollo 1 was during a training exercise). Christa McAuliffe was slated to be the first teacher in space for the Teacher in Space Program. As her maximum altitude was ~65,000ft (12.31 miles), she never made it to space. That title was given to Barbara Morgan of STS-118 aboard the shuttle Endeavour in August 2007, 22 and a half years after the Challenger Disaster. Morgan served as McAuliffe's backup during STS-51-L. As Morgan is now part of the Educator in Space Program, she will be credited as the first "educator" in space, to distinguish her from McAuliffe. Aboard Challenger during STS-51-L: Francis "Dick" Scobee (Commander) Michael Smith (Pilot) Judith Resnik (Mission Specialist) Ellison Onizuka (Mission Specialist) Ronald McNair (Mission Specialist) Gregory Jarvis (Payload Specialist) Sharon Christa McAuliffe (Payload Specialist - Teacher in Space)

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Video Category: News
Tags: space, shuttle, challenger, mcauliffe, sts-51-l, nasa, cnn, disaster, explosion, regan, 1986, liftoff, live, kennedy
did the peoples ...   (cliiff2)19.3.2010
did the peoples died? Did they ejekt
good job nasa for ...   (stangsaleens7)19.3.2010
good job nasa for listing to the company who built the o rings for the solid rocket boosters that begged nasa not to luanch in freezin temperatures.​ we will remember this and the crew, till the days of mars.
@wain167 Well, they ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)19.3.2010
@wain167 Well, they remember her mostly because she blew up in the fire blast. And no, I don't think students will remember anything about a space lesson. The students will forget everything by the next day.
I expected ...   (Flagg1991)18.3.2010
I expected something like the Hindenberg reaction from the newsman, but just sat steeped in CNN's natorious apathy.
How dare you be so ...   (wain167)18.3.2010
How dare you be so disrespectful! There were actually two civilians on that flight as the result of application. They were selected from thousands of people to go with astronaughts to space. It could've been anyone. That 'common school teacher' has never been forgotten do you know how many tributes she has. Research it before you put such an offensive comment online for people who are emotinally moved by this to read.
@LeroyJacksonJones ...   (scales57)18.3.2010
@LeroyJackson​Jones - you seriously need to learn about what happened here. are you making up this shit as you go along? you are doing a great disservice to people on here that actually might believe your shit ...and hello?, they are called astronauts in the U.S., not fuckin cosmonauts - and another thing...the challenger blew up over the ocean...not texas...it was the columbia that broke up during re-entry over texas in 2003, seriously people, don't believe a word that leroy has to say...
I can't believe ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)18.3.2010
I can't believe this mach, you are right! What a strange waste of money. To excite children, they can just show them the launch. To have an instructor all the way in space to teach children is ludicrous. I was always thinking that the teacher was there to teach the astronautical​ students the potentials of space flight, and now I am reading that this is a common public school teacher. I would never imagine something like that. The kids will watch her on TV, than forget about it the next day
It is a Boeing 747. ...   (WWA1232)18.3.2010
It is a Boeing 747. They do not take apart the shuttle, it rides on top of the 747, like a piggy back ride. search on Google :)
@WWA1232 It does? ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)18.3.2010
@WWA1232 It does? Do they then take it all apart and then reconstruct it? Or is the 747 bigger so that it fits in cargo bay? It maybe is not a 747, but do you know Guppy? A propeller plane that is like a blimp, but has many engines, and it can fit about 100 cars and trucks in its bay. It is the biggest plane in the world, aside from the Russian Antoniov, which is two football field long.
@lordkelvin13 There ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)18.3.2010
@lordkelvin13​ There is no pilot error however. The pilot Christopher McOlive, did not error. The space ship was on autopilot. It turns out that the two rockets had burned the nitrogen lines causing a gas leak. At that point, the ship turned into the Gulf Stream and was torn apart. It was at 20,000 feet, and it was going the speed of sound. Too much stress broke it apart. The fireball was monstrous. No one on the ground was hurt. The astronauticals did not error. The navy found bodies
The NASA Boeing 747 ...   (WWA1232)18.3.2010
The NASA Boeing 747 flyies it back to its mainland.
@mach25man Yes, it ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)18.3.2010
@mach25man Yes, it turns out, after a reading of National Astronautical​ Space Association website that this space ship is also a plane. And when it lands in another country because of rain or wind, it flies back to Florida without rockets or even approaching space. As you know, this is not the same plane that shot to the moon. That was Apollo. This one can fly and is half space ship, half plane. The pilot is Christopher McOlive, and he died along with the instructor and 5 other pilots.
@scales57 Yes, this ...   (LeroyJacksonJones)18.3.2010
@scales57 Yes, this explosion, it turns out, happened 20,000 feet up in the air in Florida. It had on board a female astronautical​ who was signed on to NASA to teach the other astronauticals about school while they are orbiting the earth, and also to put an electric beacon in orbit. But the teacher did not teach, and a gas leak caused the nitrogen tank to sear the lines and the rocket shot off to the side. You see two rockets that got loose and were earlier burning the tank.
oh men...7 people ...   (lordkelvin13)18.3.2010
oh men...7 people died because of this great human error.
no shit   (cladiax1)17.3.2010
no shit
into the atlantic ...   (cladiax1)17.3.2010
into the atlantic ocean
American fail   (Spezza149)17.3.2010
American fail
I was a little kid ...   (GozerTheGozerian)17.3.2010
I was a little kid when this happened and it was some sad shit. Back then, we had movies like Space Camp and every kid who was five or six years old wanted to be an astronaut...a​nd then to see this shit, whoah...it was extremely fucked up. I remember Punky Brewster did a special about this. Ah, 80s nostalgia.
Wasnt there another ...   (DarkDesert23)17.3.2010
Wasnt there another Space Shuttle Disaster, where one Space Shuttle was destryed during the landing?
lol   (EatMyShitYumYum)17.3.2010
lol
Actually there were ...   (SoraRoxas111)17.3.2010
Actually there were seven you dumbass bitch suckin cock licker
Guess we didn't ...   (IndoorCampout)17.3.2010
Guess we didn't find out whether teachers could survive in space... but we did find out whether or not a flaming human skull can go through the roof of a barn somewhere in the desert... turns out it can.
how come they ...   (cliiff2)17.3.2010
how come they cannots ejekt from a shutle? That is stoopid. Not me. Sorry.
I wonder where the ...   (PurepOis0n123)17.3.2010
I wonder where the debree fell
lol you iz stupid : ...   (PurepOis0n123)17.3.2010
lol you iz stupid :-)

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