Space Shuttle Challenger Accident Investigation (1986) 

and also, they blamed the engineers of Morton Thiokol and NASA for the incident, and probably half of them got fired

Even i can see he angled the rocket wrong at the beginning of the launch. Their altitude was off and should've been angled more vertically to avoid a backdraft of the rocket boosters.

John Fitzgerald What? Please elaborate, I honestly have no idea where you got this idea from.

nasa be like: oh there's a problem that puts the crew at risk of literally dying and ruining nasa's reputation? yeah that's totally fine, we're go for launch!

Eli Zogby not how that works

I was 13 years old and had watched this in my classroom

I was 15 yrs old in Ireland and watched this on the news but it didn’t hit me like it hit yourselves to me you’d be safer on that shuttle than a DC9 or 10 they were crashing every other day.

I was 7

Nossa há quatro anos atrás faz tempo vu

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baronito bujans research deeeeeeez nuts 🥜

baronito bujans They're dead. You can't survive a fall from that height

@@bluumish their still alive in my heart

Christa's mom even had a bad feeling and had warned Christa and had tried her best to not let her go

Christa's sister was seen collapsing in the arms of who I presume was her brother. From what I have read, Steve, her husband went into seclusion following the disaster and has never spoken publicly about it to this day. I can't begin to imagine the utter devastation that man experienced. He was so proud of her.

Yes...they were their friends...seeing them every day and then in one second...........gone.!

Yes and some had their parents watching in the crowd

@@danbruno5945 Yes, Christie's parents. I was sad to watch them while this explosion. It's awful for a mom and a dad to live this situation.

And yet nothing’s really changed, in whatever sector of thee economy you look at. People without the necessary backgrounds are placed to be responsible for groups of people and making decisions. The desire for growth and human greed never fail to destroy lives.

Exactly right. Cost and schedule was to blame that day.

Don't listen to the engineers? What could go wrong NASA; Boeing?

Thiokol told them, but they wouldn’t listen. Speed of launch regardless of life loss.

My son was also in the second grade when he and his classmates witnessed the disaster. That night he asked me "Are they all dead?" I did not know what else to say to him except they had gone to Heaven.

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@@bluumish there not alive have u lived in the 80's or 70's they died because the space shuttle blew up

@@bonnieskelton968 they all are alive ...some of them using their real names

i think its funny because it happened so long ago

Same here... Just knowing that they didn't knew what was going to happen and seeing them enter the Shuttle, it's really hard to watch... (Even knowing that it could have been prevented very easily) Rest in peace to all of them. Hopefully they are all in a better place now.

Nice explanation

Thank you. Always wondered about that.

Thanks for that, I now know less than before I read you comment.

You haven't seen the videos showing them to be alive? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4TJVhdPtEkE.html Look into Project Isinglass. The *Space Shuttle" was probably just cover for Spy missions. And explains why only 1 of the crew members hasn't been found, and he was the pilot.

@@francissullivan6400 So you're gonna wear that on your sleeve? They were all equals. They were all astronauts. They were all American heroes. Everyone who proclaims to be a real American should be proud of them!

True my there so rest in peace

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I was 19 when I saw it live on t.v. and at that moment... I knew what life and death was.

I remember that day clearly. An 8 year old at a Catholic school in Kansas City, MO. Our teacher told us what happened . I was heartbroken. Such a senseless tragedy.

I was a junior in high school in accounting when we watched it on tv.

I was in elementary school...8 years old watching in class. Tragic.

😢

I was 31 and dreamed it was going to happen. I prayed so hard. Stayed out of work to watch it and cried for days after!

oh cats

J IJzer unfortunately it’s filled with half truths and misdirection. Several more accurate documentaries have been made. Also a book by one of the main engineers and designers involved with the program who warned NASA there was a problem that would lead to a catastrophe wrote an extensive book about the disaster called Truth, Lies and O-rings.

It's also a really annoying computer synthesised voice, which means that many people will have skipped through the video, or simply have muted the audio, thus missing out many of the inaccurate comments.

RWBHere Its a real persons voice. His name is Peter linstrad.....

Spelling and grammar are critical components of credibility. I'm talking about your credibility, J IJzer.

*SHOULD have been prevented

@@tendiefundies4355 Learn self control, and manners. That was uncalled for.

The engineers had warned them about the right SRB problem, but they never listen or they neglected it.

they knew about the flaws of the o rings, but they had to get the teacher up to keep funding from congress

That's true. I saw another doc about this, and every person said they wanted it to be rescheduled, but they were pressured into launching. Interestingly, nobody seems to be the one applying the pressure.

could they have fixed it?

@@gnbilios They should not have launched that day. It was 15 degrees colder than they had ever launched before. Did you see all that ice on the launch pad ?...which as we know, affected the O rings on the SBRs...

Are you sure it’s that sad? They said it a 134 different times and it was fine on launch.

@@Docstantinople The space shuttle launched 135 times Doc......this was the only time "go for throttle up" resulted in the death of 7 people.....so in answer to your question, yes it really is that sad.

Darren AM yes I know it flew 135 times. I subtracted the one time during launch where it wasn’t successful and challenger blew up on launch. Actually I will go ahead and subtract Columbia too since the foam broke off and punched a hole in the wing therefore not making it a successful launch which ultimately led to the break up on re-entry. So in conclusion there were a 133 times where “go for throttle up” was good and 2 times where it was sad.

The pad was full of ice like it was other cold days and winters. Pipes are left to drip to prevent bursting. The ice on the pad never affected the orbiter.

jrockett73 its a bloody good indicator of how cold it was though, and if it is of no consequence, why is it noted that the pipes around the launch pad were engulfed in ice? And no, the cold temperatures had no bearing on the orbiter......It has a HUGE bearing on the rubber O rings that are used in the expansion joints of the boosters! And it was this that caused the catastrophic failure of before mentioned O rings! It should have blown up on the launch pad....but the expansion gap, that should have been sealed by the O rings was filled with slag from the aluminium added to the fuel....when a burst of wind..seen in the dogleg of the smoke after the explosion, hit the orbiter, it dislodged this slag thus causing the fuel to pour out, ignite, and blow up the main tank!

I read a good book about the investigation and in particular the decision to launch. My takeaway from that was something like this: when push came to shove, the engineers had only tested the O-rings to a low of 54°F, and had no data to prove what would happen below that temperature. They SUSPECTED the O-rings wouldn't hold below the forecast temps, but NASA wanted hard data. Thiokol managers recommended launch in the end because nobody could prove to NASA that there was a solid reason why they shouldn't go.

@@pommiebears The boosters are solid fuel not liquid. No fuel ever poured out. The fatal problem was first exhaust gases and then combusting fuel exiting the joint of the booster. Even then, had the plume of rocket exhaust been directed outward they would have made orbit.

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That’s exactly what happened which only makes it even more horrifying. Of course this was all covered up at the time

After I discovered that info in a doc, I started hunting around for more info about the remains of the astronauts. The slam into the ocean caused total destruction of the bodies. You forget that slamming into water is like hitting concrete.

I remember watching in my class. I was in 6th grade. The entire school went so silent you could have heard a pin drop. Then a lot of tears from everyone as the reality of what happened set in.

@@jaydouglas8845 we know but because it looked like one that’s what people called it. Truth be told many things look different in hindsight.

I lived in SW GA at the time and as cold as it was at the Cape, it was even colder where I lived, in the teens.

I was in 2nd grade as well and our principal had our whole elementary school go into the gymnasium and showed the school what happened

Unless you were in the 3rd grade. 😋

We were in 3rd grade... 😥

I remember it like yesterday....you know the tv and vcr they had on a rolling cart that never really worked?.....we were horrified..the teachers were all crying and shit and for us it seemed like the whole world was coming to an end and all of us were screaming for mommy and daddy.......hell i still do it with this stupid covid shit goin around...smh

I was in 5th grade

Hello it's 2020

jos john ten years late

Zzddytt He didn’t have camera view he didn’t know it had exploded. He was going on reading data

To a non familiar with the shuttle launches eye I guarantee you it could seem a normal thing

It's just how NASA is. Air heads.

Houston command center didnt have eyes on it like Florida did. I bet they have now though.

...and a preventable malfunction.

It’s likely that the Challenger’s crew survived the initial breakup of the shuttle but lost consciousness due to loss of cabin pressure and probably died due to oxygen deficiency pretty quickly.

Dark Light you seem sure of your response regarding the condition of the astronaut’s bodies. How do you know this type of information?

Dark Light ,,,,Thanks for the visual 👌

Just like most of plane crashes. People only lose consciousness. It was like a plane cash but with a huge fuel tank disfunction

@@SinisterMud they said that the cabin remained intact and pressurized, so maybe the astronauts got knocked out clean

Yep I loved that.

Relax...it was a hoax..They are alive and well.

SeedPlanter You’ve been fooled by fools

@@Icemanin1994 I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you ..ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vBUSIzaS0ws.html

What r u taking about?? Idiot

Actually... Lee Harvey Oswald killed them. And before you go "Wait, _what_ ?!", here is the chain of events... Kennedy wanted to cancel Apollo, because it was getting expensive, make a joint US-Soviet mission to the Moon. Oswald (unaware of this of course) killed Kennedy 2 months later. LBJ -- as a way of grief-coping the nation through these hard times -- asked that Apollo continue, to "honour Kennedy's legacy" and fulfilling Kennedy's promise of a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Congress agreed. So NASA got _lots_ of funding, and this kept the Space Euphoria of the 1960's fuelled and going, culminating with Apollo landing on the Moon. In the mean time, plans have been drawn up for a space station, and a space shuttle for that station, and tons of other space projects, all a result of the Great Space Euphoria that was raging. And then came the Big Space _Ennui_ of the 1970s. After that "one small step for man", everyone want "okay, that was fun, now what? Meh...bored now". Congress looked at the bill for Apollo and went "Oh my...". So in the early 1970s, with social reform at home and a war in south east Asia raging, Congress cut down on space funding. Space projects started being cancelled for lack of money. One of the axed projects was the space station. But _not_ the space shuttle, NASA kept that one alive by going to DoD and asked them if they want to join that project and fund it. "Okay", said DoD, "but you need to build it to our specs then, and we want to lift some pretty big things to space". NASA agreed, and up-speced the space shuttle, making it bigger and heavier and -- most important -- more _expensive_ . Come the late 1970s, and DoD did an about-face and went for unmanned rockets instead of buying a share of the Space Shuttle. NASA was suddenly stuck with a very big, very heavy vehicle, and no paying clients. Congress was still holding on tight to its money and said "We are not sure we want to pay for that huge thing". NASA went into a panic, and tried to get as many flights in as possible, to show that the Shuttle was worth the money. And this drive -- to get as many flights in as possible -- is what made them nag down Thiokol and start, despite it being too cold. Without Oswald killing Kennedy, Apollo might have gotten cancelled, and with that the space euphoria might have simmered down a bit, and with that the insane spending would have quieted down, and with that more realistic space projects might have been planned, and with that, there might not have been a big heavy space shuttle at all. Maybe, just maybe, Lee Harvey Oswald killed 7 astronauts, January 28, 1986.

Michael Karnerfors so basically the Big Bang killed the astronauts

@Joe Jack بعد تزه

@@proud90skid15 "...which was in turn because… and so on back to the initial and highly controversial creation of the universe".

@@michaelkarnerfors9545 one slight issue. Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, he was the scapegoat.

Jon Brahms None of Soviets fatal incidents happened during the launch, so they are not got caught on tape anyway

♥️May I please steal your quote? For my mother, she’s a teacher.

@@mulliganstew72 sure!

Pieces

@@alexandreluizalves yes some of them were regonisable

I had that set too!

I had the same VHS - I loved this tape, I was like 12

That's Climate Change for you.

Blaze_007 Actually, cold snaps even freezes were common in Florida in December and January. Climate change has wrought mild winters. We rarely see that kind of cold anymore.

Oh yeah, I had that VHS set too! Really cool to see many of those up on RU-vid now - I just about destroyed each one of those tapes back in the day; easily watched them 50 + times lol

Hamsandwichindahouse No I'm not , and i can still remember seeing the boats on the water and my mum feeling sick thinking about it. I'm 43 yrs old i do remember the eighties.

Jon Killings that is what the news said back then. They did find the bodies two weeks later inside the cabin.

The body parts were from slamming into the water at 200+ mph. The report said the destruction to the bodies was catastrophic.

I haven't seen it yet, but want to! Just one of the astronauts dies, right?

J Rawlins no, they all did.

Please name the Netflix documentary

rafique pathan Challenger: the final flight.

@@flavf2494 thanks

Story Musgrave said that they were most likely conscious by the time they hit the water.

3 of the switches were turned on - Resnik turned hers and the person in front of her(Captain) and onizuka’s was turned on. They were conscious and could see what was coming.

hey there ,it's 2020 ...9 years

coroonaaaa!

Fuck yeah

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Greetings from the future

You don't think they could have exit right after the camera crews left? You haven't seen the videos showing them to be alive? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4TJVhdPtEkE.html Look into Project Isinglass. The *Space Shuttle" was probably just cover for Spy missions. And explains why only 1 of the crew members hasn't been found, and he was the pilot.

@@Flat_Earth_101 Thr fact that only one person, me, has responded to your post should tell you just how ridiculous it was.

65mill people die every year

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It wasn’t an explosion it disintegrated based on sheer dynamics

are you fucking serious,how could anyone survive that,they were in a motel room you stupid prick

Bermsy Fructa Google your question and get the answer. Most experts think they survived the explosion because of the evidence they found.

I don't know why people are arguing against this. It's a fact when the crew cabin was recovered, it was 3 PEAP devices were noted as activated.

@@tonycornwill9008 There is no need for that kind of language. If you would have paid better attention, it is mentioned (at 32:10) that the crew compartment stayed intact after the breakup of the orbiter. Every documentation about the challenger desaster points that out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uqcd_3daPQ8.html It is also said, that there was no explosion (31:28) but a massive combustion of fuel. Hurling insults only reveals your lack of comprehension. Next time think before you comment!

Same here. I was in 2nd grade at the time, and we did have a TV rolled into the room for the launch. My teacher had been talking about this launch for weeks; she was from a town in NH near McAuliffe's hometown. I remember watching it clearly, until about 3 minutes after the incident and it was clear there was "obviously a major malfunction." Then, all I remember was Mrs. Gaucher hauling ass to the front of the room to turn off the TV, and her having a 10 minute conversation in the hallway with several other teachers.

We were getting ready to go to class. I yelled to my friends to hurry and then I said - oh no, I think it exploded. It was sad.

The thing is, in ALL forms of big ticket risk/reward items in ALL categories.. particularly aerospace and aviation... just because there is a known problem, never instigates a resolution... it ALWAYS.. in almost EVERY single case, requires death to warant spending the capitol on changes. Its asinine.. particularly in commercial aviation.. where you are risking more than just the volunteers lives.. never the less that is the world we live in. =/ pricy problems are only forced into the "fix me" list once there have been sufficient death to warrant the repair. And even then the only reason they are added to the fix me list is due to the fact that the plublic has a close eye on aerospace and aviation crashes in general... if we didnt watch so closely, the people that spend the money would not spend it nearly as often :P

pyrite1978 They call this 'tombstone technology'. Another good example concerned the design of the cargo bay doors of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. See 'Aircrash investigation: Behind closed doors'. One plane had to crash land (no-one died), and the company made superficial changes. Another plane crashed for exactly the same reason, this time killing 346 people. Only then were the door latches redesigned.

Gilbert Evans yup.. another reason I wanna move to another planet! :P

pyrite1978, the Catch 22 is that, to go to another planet, you'll have to use a -barely controlled explosive device- rocket at the start and end of the journey.

The solid rocket boosters were designed extremely well, thousands of hours of research, study and experimentation developed a system that proved highly reliable, please do not blame the engineers for mistakes made by other agencies.

l well the engineers said to abort the launch. But those businessmen wanted it done.

When it stops being about money, that's when you'll see the end of the space program. That's just the way it is.

Morton Thiokal didn't produce any temperature data of any kind with regard to effects on the field joints. They were just assuming there would be problems on what was shakey experience of a previous launch. Hardly criteria for reasoning a no launch position. Columbia was a different event. NASA decided against using satellites that could have taken pictures of the wing damage, and there was damage, for appraisal. A disgraceful event with no excuses.

The Shuttle Program was not in the public eye at the time. None of the Big 3 TV networks broadcast the launch live. The only one was a small local LA network. They had to get the teacher up because it was the State of the Union speech that night.

What the hell does that mean??

Anthony Kernich It was all because of Lawrence Malloy

The Shuttle was a downgrade from rockets. It’s a plane awkwardly attached to a giant explosive tank. It was never a safe design to begin with that only looked cheaper for being “reusable”

@@Cinicraft00 You can't blame them for trying, back then that was the only way they could get reusability. Rocket scientists for years thought that SpaceX style propulsive landings were pretty much impossible until the 90s and even in the 90s no one could do it at orbital velocity from orbit.

Was a fake hoax.

@@michaeladcox2507 The biggest mistake Stanley Kubrick made in the movie 2001 was giving the apes enough intelligence to operate computer keyboards, which is evidenced by your comment.

Omg 😔😪

@@gurpreet3878 😥

@@Ralphie_Boy very sorry my brother 😥😢😰

@@gurpreet3878 😷👍🏻

Made me cry seeing some of the parents to these crew watching in the crowd

Three of the crews PEAP air packs were activated and there is no way this could accidentally happen. Smith, Onizuka and Resnik are all on. Scobee's was not activated. The other three PEAPs were not recovered. The amount of air used on PEAP matched the time it took to fall from 40k feet to ocean. The impact of the ocean was fatal at 200mph or 200gs

Me too. I was on a 'sickie' sicknote stay at home from school with the flu, sipping hot milk, watching it live on ITN News. I had my own special red mug to drink from. I jumped up in shock when it exploded ( I was 13 years old), dropped my red mug which I ended up causing to be chipped (I'd sipped all the milk by that point). Every time I used that red mug, made me remember. God, I even remember one of the shuttles being flown over on top of a Being 747 and was lucky to catch a glimpse of it en route to Heathrow airport for some UK NASA PR exercise as it few from the west and into the London area from where I lived (I lived just into the Essex area near North London) . Think that was on a Saturday or Sunday back then.

Elite. Nothing like being a fugitive.

She probably said quite a few other things to her crewmates before the launch.

They said other things that this post that we can't see .like the fear and the screams on board .my heart is still hurt behind NASA bull crap and they wear warned they only thought of there victory and reputation. Til this Dad I hope they are tossing and turning in there own selfishness

Well she then said 'i hope so too' in regard to 'i hope we go today' and later responded to a com check

@@bootssocks9016 I take it English isn't your strong point

@@bootssocks9016 the crew had no idea that anything was wrong. I am not really sure what screams you are referring to..you can watch the full launch here on youtube, uncut. The sad part is the explosion did not kill them. It is even sadder that NASA allowed this as not even airplanes will fly with ice involved yet rocket scientists would..that's the sad part...their lives clearly were not important enough to postpone the mission again.