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Message started by LANCER on 12/20/16 at 15:07:40

Title: The "Challenger" event.
Post by LANCER on 12/20/16 at 15:07:40

After looking at the U-tube videos of the engine with glass in the head, which enabled viewing actual combustion processes. It was very interesting.

So after watching those I went on looking at other things and came across a video of a detailed analysis of the tragedy of that day in 1985. It has been viewed 2.5 mil. times but I had not seen or heard of it before. It is almost 30 minutes long and I found it to be amazingly, sorrowfully, and deeply moving to be able to see and hear what actually took place in a mere 73 seconds after take-off. If you have not seen this I suggest you look at it. It all happened so quickly that for the crew aboard I don't think they had more than a very few seconds to realize that something was going wrong, and I don't think they had time or the data to realize they were going to meet God that day.
It is sobering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnmSdVbgQ4M

Another interesting video, with a statement by an astronaut who is a MD, stating that there was evidence the the crew, or at least some of them, may have survived until the crew cabin it the water at over 200 mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcd_3daPQ8

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by Kris01 on 12/20/16 at 18:57:41

I remember the day well. I was home sick from school that day.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by Ruttly on 12/20/16 at 19:31:45

So was I Kris. How weird is that.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by Kris01 on 12/20/16 at 19:39:04

Haha! How strange! Maybe it was an epidemic. ;D

I remember the on-screen emotionless voice droning on about something technical not realizing what had just happened.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by badwolf on 12/20/16 at 20:18:19

I was up on a double scaffold laying block on a Fire Station 130 miles south of the Cape. The laborers started to yell and point up in the sky, I looked up and saw the boosters circling around and knew instantly what it was, but didn't want to believe it....
A decade later 4 of us were in a Cessna 172 about 4500 feet above the north bridge over the Intercostal Waterway in Melbourne at 12:25 one night and got to watch the Challenger take-off in a night launch from just 15 miles away from the pad. About the coolest thing I ever saw!

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/20/16 at 21:08:46

I'm surprised the FAA allowed private planes that close.
Would've really liked to be there.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by LANCER on 12/21/16 at 04:37:39

I was in the military (Navy) at the time and pretty much everything came to a stop to watch the TV. It was a stunning event, especially since so many of the astronauts were active military.
It felt so odd to me since I was also active military when the Shuttle made its first flight. That was another day when much of the military paused to watch history being made. Pride was HUGE that !
Those 2 days are burned onto my mind, similar to 9-11.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by philthymike on 12/21/16 at 07:08:00

I was in middle school then. I remember the science teacher announcing what had happened and then putting on the TV for us to watch the news. The principal announced a moment of silence for the entire school and that changing classes was suspended for the rest of the day. We spent the rest of the day in the science room with the science teacher talking to us about the incident and answering our questions about it. The school nurse and some other front office people came around to see if we were coping alright.

I felt terrible for the astronauts. I remember when the "what's this button for" Christa McAuliffe jokes started not long after and almost getting into fights with the people making the jokes.

Title: Re: The "Challenger" event.
Post by Kris01 on 12/21/16 at 18:07:55

7577647A64667E777F64160 wrote:

got to watch the Challenger take-off in a night launch from just 15 miles away from the pad. About the coolest thing I ever saw!

That would've been an amazing night!

I was probably 1000-1500 ft. over Nashville on the 4th of July and got to watch fireworks come up at us. They were trying to shoot us down! ;D