Space Shuttle Challenger Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript, January 28, 1986 

Vickie Fowler - That would be awful to live with that fear for 18 months. Your boss was a good man. Just so sad for the families of the crew. May God bless and comfort them still.

I’ve often wondered what I would have done had it actually been one of our o-rings that failed. I’m not sure I could have lived with that! It was the longest eighteen months of my life. I couldn’t sleep... could barely eat. It was a living nightmare. The only thing that kept me alive were my co-workers who stood by me and urged me to wait for the results of the investigation. The o-rings we made were of Teflon, which is notorious for shrinking in cold weather. I had convinced myself that our’s were where the fault lay. I still feel such a strong connection to those brave people!

@@vickiefowler1429 It was out of the manufacturer's hands. The customer elected to use them without regard for the design parameters because of their culture.

Was it an O ring that failed and caused it to explode ?

It's really good to see someone that takes so much pride in their work. If you had that much concern you obviously have some pride even if it's not a glamorous or fun job.

Correct. Boisjoly & his fellow engineers had been lodging strenuous objections to the launch for MONTHS. They knew what was coming. They were haunted for the rest of their lives.

Yeah, what do they know? It's not rocket science....Oh...

There were two previous launch delays and Ronald Reagan had some dignitary buds with him and he was pissed about no launch so when those engineers said 'don't launch' Ron said to hell with that as this is the third time his buddies came to watch and OUR President said light this bird up using some kind of excuse " I want to know if this bird will take me out of harms way in the event of a war !! bad weather or not you bastards light this thing I am not going to be embarrassed in front of my friends again !!! THIS IS THE TRUTH !!!!

I was told first hand by a person that was there !! Big VIP !!! He Has the credentials !!!

Pat Hall are you serious? Someone you knew told you that? And you’re on here typing it like it’s a fact? Gtfoh

I had the pleasure of meeting Judy when she came to Boeing for a prior payload briefing a couple years beforehand. She was smart, articulate and had a great sense of humor. I was working on a different program when Challenger was destroyed, but a manager who had been watching the live feed in another building came over to tell us what had happened. What an ugly day....

@Chairman of the Board As you probably know, Barbara Morgan went into space 21 years later despite the cancellation of the Teacher in Space program. She essentially had to start all over, training as a Mission Specialist. An amazing story.

Feeber Izer hi and hugs for your comments

@Geo Hock gtfo no one cares

@Geo Hock You're mad because you didn't get to go.

I agree. I think mission control says something like “there’s been a catastrophic loss of telemetry” and you can see christa’s mother asking what does that mean.

@@baruckacrane2685 7j7jj

I beg to differ

Frank Jackson It’s a horrible thing to imagine but the female astronaut had turned on the oxygen for two others during the free fall which would indicate she was very much alive and conscious.

How can God know it if he doesnt exist??

Frank Jackson...Can you direct me to this "proof" so I can read it?

@@forreal245 - It's well known that most if not all the crew survived the explosion and went as far as donning oxygen masks as contrary to popular belief the explosion didn't immediately destroy the orbiter the aerodynamic forces from the subsequent destabilized flight did and the reinforced crew compartment - detached from the rest if the orbiter - fell relatively intact

Unfortunately we know three of them were because they activated the oxygen in their helmets.

Agree one hundred percent!! This, princess Diana's death, and 9/11.

@@sherribrawn3757 Princess Diana and 9/11 in the same breath? I mean, her death was tragic but come on....

@@kmsharley75 right?

@@kmsharley75it's one of those "I remember where I was and what I was doing at the time it happened... No disrespect just my feelings...

Indeed

When P.R. overrules science .

And God rest Roger Boisjoly, the Morton Thiokol employee whose pragmatism and wisdom would otherwise have delayed the launch due to the temperature's effect on the o-rings. The seals were not faulty, the same as aircraft are sound vehicles when properly de-iced or not flown at all in inclement weather.

they're not dead. look into it.

@@duke3250 shut the hell up and stop disrespecting these poor people, life is never on our side, we just act as it is, and think that.

@@Verstats just look it up lol they're still alive. the pictures are on the net.

This is what hit me the most. He HAD to know. 3 seconds can be long.

He might have seen a master alarm of pressure dropping in the external tank or SRB...not much time to think.

R Rockwell - and the assassination of jfk

Same

Our political science class watched the seize at Waco and they were only supposed to have been serving him a warrant for child endangerment. We fired on them first killing all the women and children; that is when they began firing back.

R Rockwell I watched the Waco incident live on the television in their icu waiting room with a group of family members of ill patients who were already stressed out. Many were in tears, everyone stunned. I do not think that viewing these kind of events does us any good.

Do me a favor, if I'm on live TV change the channel

Same here, I remember the school I went to on base actually postponed classes while the launch happened, my dad was actually at ground zero with his camera taking photos and stuff, then the explosion happened, messed me and a bunch of my friends up because we were huge supporters of NASA and couldn't understand how it happened

i Dreamt a dream that left me in a cold sweat the night before. But it was of a plane flying low just above my head ...and crashing into a building. I thought it was just a coincidence and scoffed at the idea of a psychic premonition ...because it wasn't a dream about the shuttle. I had said a prayer actually, asking God for the safety of the launch before I went to sleep the night before. Had there been talk of a delay? We were still in the midst of the cold war & I sensed that launch was important. They instantly went to Heaven I have no doubt.

With all the false alarms and false hoaxes that are being revealed as of late.... (Russian Hoax... Smollett, etc.) I begin to wonder if some weird psycho-drama of promoting mass-trauma on the American people wasn't being employed? I don't know what the purpose would be. At the time I was just thinking sabotage... But who? The Russians or communist Chinese? Or do the elites & the CIA drama-queens in the media love us & would NEVER think of manipulating us???? Or it was just another tragic accident? Funny how mass shootings almost never happened when my generation was growing up (I'd never heard of one... except for JFK & he was the only one killed). Are the spooks/'black'-Ops/CIA more brazen & psychotic... Or has our decaying morality been the sole cause?

I watched it live in school. Every one freaked out.

@@kindlydude The Satanic Illuminati is behind everything. Check out the card game.

Me too 😢

I remember the spaghetti O's commercial

@crackerwv wait, are you admitting to tax evasion

crackerwv You’re a fucking moron

crackerwv wait, you’re joking right. You’re not that dumb

I was in first and remember everything..... my teacher started crying.

i was in 5th grade and i'll never forget my teacher's reaction. She just shut off the TV and walked out of the room. 15 mins later they were all lining up the buses to send us home early. Fucking unbelievable tragedy and like every school child in America watched it live.

I was in 4th Grade also when this occurred.

@@myhaikaratesmellstillrocks6823 and Canada, we watched it live as well...

I was on the table awaiting a vasectomy.

Rene Cardona you machined the part that caused the accident???my god have you told anyone before this??

john smith read again stupid

Clark Gable I won't , thx. I just got a bit upset thinking one might accuse someone being not involved at all, to have caused this horrible incident....other than the ones who obviously are the ones to take responsibility.

Clark Gable oh don't worry I won't...I am still in awe ....the music is awesome and leaves me somehow speechless....if one wouldn't know what happens, one could even think how strangely beautiful the white clouds emerging higher and higher are, while the piano's play adds a dark undertone, though being harmonious....It fits the scene so very well... It's somehow too much for a humans simple mind to take in at once ....

@@johnsmith-jm9nw can you read?

Different generation,Leonard. I’m sure your dad is proud of the man you are

how'd he die?

Sorry about your dad ...... God bless.......

Sorry for your loss 😢

No....call out "Jesus!!"

Hannah Prevost Who cares?

Arslan Ahmad Obviously you do, since you commented

BelmontSlayer 23 Actually no, they replied.

LittleArmyNut wow fuck you arslan and armynut, have a heart... my original comment said hannah, sorry to hannah if you saw that

Army nut just by your name i can tell what kind of person you are hahahaha, not a good one

True and noble. Accidents can always happen, however, in the case of the Challenger, it was more like manslaughter. NASA had been warned that the temperature was too low which could lead to a disaster, but they decided their time schedule was more important. That’s why the loss of the Challenger crew never stops hurting. NASA managers gambled with their lives, and the crew was not aware of that.

Except this was preventable

The conquest of space is definitely not worth the risk of life.

What you all say is all true. (Except for John). And i long for the day that bureaucrats and businessmen more retarded than i can be myself would just step off their position in place of people that actually knows what's going on within an early space-age project. "The right man in the right place can make all the difference in the world." -G-Man from HL2 but slightly edited for context :^)

@@johnmano1439 the conquest of space is greater than the risk of life. With the conquest of space we will be able to create a longer life for humanity without the constraint of earth. U dumb if you cant see it. The future of the human specie and its survival needs the space conquest

alex ubillus I too was in the 11 grade. In gym class. Complete silence. Then tears.

alex ubillus Wow I remember watching it in class too. It haunted me for a long time

I knew I wasn't the only one. Will never forget it and I too share that memory with my son.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

Same story here, except I was in 4th grade. We were in the gymnasium and the teacher wheeled the tv in on a cart. We all sat on the floor watching it Live and the teacher stood near the tv. Everyone just sat there after it happened, not sure what we had just seen. The teacher began sobbing.

Being tough isn't not crying, its crying and not giving af.

Thanks James, yes I did. Emotions took over.

It rocked our world, but we're no longer that country unfortunately.

7th grade, Ms. Lowell's science class, Hughes Jr. High.

I was at the student having lunch at the student union in my university. I remember it so vividly. It was crowded with many students, some of which were foreign students from the Middle East. Many of us were engineering students. As the explosion happened, some of the foreign students stood up and cheered. I was shocked and outraged. Those cheering were rejoicing at the death of people that were dedicating their lives to the advancement of scientific progress for the benefit of our country and the world. Needless to say, I struggled to forget how they celebrated a tragedy. If they hated our country so much do not come to our country to study. It was the beginning of my realization of biases against our country, whether it was for good or bad reasons.

I was in art class at my university and the professor walked in and canceled class. I remember driving home and my mother was crying when I got there. I stood watching the TV in disbelief. Such a tragedy

@@cjanquart Mrs. Jordan's 7th grade pre-algebra class; we'd just come in from lunch and she was there, crying, and told us what had happened.

@crackerwv dude just shut up your embarrassing yourself

Uh huh. Looks nothing like them.

The realisation something was majorly amiss. Unfortunately everything happened so quickly there was nothing anyone could do. Very sad.

I can't remember who said it but it was something like "they were alive and he tried to fly that ship without wings the whole way down" referring to the pilot Mike Smith, the one saying "uh oh." Very chilling, indeed.

Same

HAHAHA relax Connie none of them are dead hahaha.

@@steveimperial7760 They're all dead...

Throttle up was the last thing Smith said, as the pilot of the shuttle. After that, it was a man knowing his demise is unavoidable but his composure and behavior were the same as all test pilots would be. Scobe was next to him and they both knew, it would be a couple of minutes, before they died. They were heroes who passed with respect and dignity.

@@linanicolia1994 Are you saying they knew it was going to explode? oh no...

@@steveimperial7760 from what I've read, they were alive when they landed in the ocean. What happened to them after that, is anyone's guess.

Yeah for sure. It makes you wonder what he saw or felt to make him say that. I always figured the first they knew was when the explosion happened, but the "uh oh" was just before it happened.

I was thinking the same thing... jesus.

@@ihurtmyarm probably like the parachute coming out on a top fuel dragster times 20.

J G I think we can only assume they lost electrical power.

Yes it is very chilling and sad. Either lost all electric to the shuttle or warning sensors going off making him say that 😥

Christmas is gay

They were either trying to land or were just taking off weren't they?The American military had personnel at CFB Gander in Newfoundland. The Us stops there all the time to refuel either on there way to Europe or on their way back to the states.Canada has people stationed at cheyenne mountain at Norad.I remember that also.A sad day that was.May they all RIP.

melvin boyce : peacekeeping mission. Lol, America doesn't do those.

melvin boyce gandor Newfoundland ,I saw the memorial when my flight had a engine problem and got stuck in gamdor over night waiting for a new engine the airlines was flying tigers air cargo. Sfc D.L. Ryan 7thSf. Airborne ret.

Never heard that one.

With each delay youre talking money... Time is money... It was all about the money, thats all it ever is... Money ruled that day.... Not the victims.. RIP Challenger..

When its the presidents head do you really think anythings gonna happen.Never.

@@tomwolak3362 what did the president have to do with it? This was all NASA.

Eyes open wide Trump is responsible. 😂

Tandria Alfonso this happened in 1986..

crackerwv thanks for demonstrating why lobotomy’s should be mandatory for Flat tards .

@crackerwv it sure is convenient they all have websites with pictures. Have you ever thought that they could be relatives?

@crackerwv You have a problem recognizing which position is the theory, methinks. While I will admit that they all share eerily similar features to their "namesakes", all of the links you provided are to professionals, each with long-established and verifiable histories that go back before the challenger disaster, and fail any objective definition of "proof". The burden of proof is on the accuser.

The teacher should have never done this. Just wanted glory but her kids lost their mother because of her ego

@crackerwv I'm thinking perfectly well for myself right now and I think you should shut the fuck up

Mad

same

My shuttle was Columbia. I remember being in 4th grade watching it on tv in 1981. It hurt to lose that one.

It was on a historical scale just like JFK's assassination. That, this, and 911 are the standout historical days of my life, just like (I'm sure) Pearl Harbor, the 29 stock market crash, and the Garfield, McKinley, and Lincoln assassinations were to prior generations. All of were truly sad days.

@@sandydog291 I was 12 when President Kennedy was murdered, so have seen plenty of deaths that have had a historical impact. Unfortunately I'll see many more before my eyes finally close!

@Wil Andersen - I watched a movie based on this event that depicted just what you said. This mission had been delayed once or twice so the powers that be (whoever they were/are) decided to go with it. I lived about 40 miles from Cape Canaveral at the time and recall what a bitterly cold morning it was. I could see the split plume from my back patio. :(

Sonshine...A memory that sadly, you'll keep forever...so terrible...

Particularly as it was the Reagan White House that pushed for it. cleantechnica.com/2016/01/31/challenger-disaster-happens-politics-overrides-science/

Will I've never researched this, so I don't know that much about it really... but they were talking about helium loss... didn't Mission Control get the hint? I mean, I don't know, but that seems like something... you know... important!?!

all aviation and space accidents are avoidable...but since we are human beings and one little mistake result in disaster in very complex machines and missions....its just a dangerous undertaking.

I was at university at the time and blew off my classes that morning and thought I'd watch the launch on tv.

@@wincrasher2007 I remember walking in from class right after it happened. Walking into a silent living room full of college kids, I knew something was wrong. That silence was deafening.

Angieleigh Eads I had almost the exact experience except I was in 8th grade. Always stayed with me, I guess maybe because I was the first major tragedy I watched happen before my eyes 🙈

Same. 5th grade.

I was also in middle school at the time. Initially, it wasn't understood what happened, but after it was confirmed word spread throughout the school very quickly.

@@RayyM2 I was in first grade in a Houston school so the lead up to the launch was big. I knew something was wrong when I saw my teacher start crying.

Donut

Beautiful ICUinthedark just beautiful but I’m gonna have to lean towards Y Hh on this one

Clint Eastwood said " Pain is Good .It let's you know that you are still alive " " Heartbreak Ridge "

Heather. Lynsae

@Silvio Manuel You're an Idiot.

@@randygreen8916 the best part of Silvio dripped down his mother's leg

How sad that day was. The morning when Challenger blew up I was at a law office discussing the soon divorce from my wife of 13 years. Three kids would soon be without their mother. Things will be so much better when Jesus returns and those who love Jesus will be forever happy and at peace in the New Jerusalem and on earth made new. There will be no more sad stories, tears and death! Please come soon Lord Jesus and take us to our real, forever home!

Silvio Manuel thats a douche remark you made to Benny...maybe your just stupid BUT maybe your are anti-Semitic...your post certainly clarifies you as an anti-Semitic POS..

@@commontater1785 Just something he told me when I was about 14 years old.

I heard it set up like we have to take risks to accomplish something. I understand this: sometimes people must die to accomplish a mission. The saddest part is that whoever pushed it through has also committed the deadliest sins of all: has also failed the mission. People were sacrificed for nothing.

weird flex but okay

Don't forget about the Columbia accident. Engineers requested 3 times to use the shuttle's imaging sensors to inspect the damage. The program integration manager Linda Ham denied the requests to focus more on scientific experimentation. The Atlantis was already being prepped for another scheduled launch. An orbital rescue may have been feasible

@@anthonysmith3577 For the sake of exploration, innovation, and human achievement, lives will often be lost. All they can do is build numerous redundancies into the systems, train the hell out of the crew, and repeatedly inspect for safety. But even with all that accidents will still happen.

Sorry but this is not thay last words, cocpict section is made with reinforced aluminum and just deatched- this is not explosion but more like huge breakup. " NASA estimated the load factor at separation to be between 12 and 20 g; within two seconds it had already dropped to below 4 g and within 10 seconds the cabin was in free fall. The forces involved at this stage were probably insufficient to cause major injury." "Whether the crew members remained conscious long after the breakup is unknown, and largely depends on whether the detached crew cabin maintained pressure integrity. If it did not, the time of useful consciousness at that altitude is just a few seconds; the PEAPs supplied only unpressurized air, and hence would not have helped the crew to retain consciousness. If, on the other hand, the cabin was not depressurized or only slowly depressurizing, they may have been conscious for the entire fall until impact. Recovery of the cabin found that the middeck floor had not suffered buckling or tearing, as would result from a rapid decompression, thus providing some evidence that the depressurization may not have happened suddenly." If this will be just peaceful moments NASA just will give peoples(media) voice recording

it most likely wasn’t their last words. at least 3 of them were completely aware and concious, still attempting to save themselves up until the very moment of impact into the water.

“The last moments the world would hear from them”

They were alive.. in addition to 3 activated PEAPs, some controls in were set to manual, suggesting that Smith was trying to regain control of a ship that was no longer behind them.

@Superfly l thought that

I was in Orlando in a science class. They took us all outside to watch it.

Paul Hogsten huh

@Paul Hogsten Steel beams can't melt jet fuel

@Paul Hogsten nope.

Paul Hogsten they died when they hit the water dumbass

The shooting of JFK had such an impact on my generation. One big difference for some I'm sure, at my school we got word he'd been shot & then there was the wait before the final pronouncement :( Us Kennedy Kids grew up to: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" I retired career civil service: School District, State of California, DoD. Sadly the majority of old farts left in our government at present didn't pick up the same message :(

@@NoseyNana I'm sure that day when our country was changed forever by the events in Dallas does resonate for those who were alive ,much as Pearl Harbor ,and 911 for those generations. I think every generation has it's defining moment and it's what they choose to do from that moment on that defines the generation. I have been lucky,or unlucky enough to have 3 defining moments. The Challenger tragedy,the day the war started (Desert Storm ) and I awaited my orders to cross into Iraq as part of Stormin Norman's Hail Mary (24th infantry division) and of course 911. While all three were traumatic ,they also taught me much about myself and our nation as well as the human spirit and it's ability to pick itself up and go on.

Oyr 8th grade teacher put on the TV and we watched it live! Sad day.

there was a school teacher from New Hampshire on the shuttle and school where she worked at the whole school was watching the launch live in the gym.

@@JohnDoe-dh4fi can't imagine the pain and horror those kids and co-workers felt. Pride and excitement,to punched in the gut....

I was/am the same age as you. I was home from school, sick, and I remember watching it alone and the sick, sad feeling that came over me when I saw what happened. That feeling stayed with me for a long while and was just replicated while watching this. RIP Challenger crew

About the same age i was watching live and i when i saw the look on the crowds faces i was oh my god that wasnt supposed to happen.

ya im 27.36 years old right now i totally now how that feels, maybe when im 40.13 years old ill be able to let it go.

RIP to all including your grandma. Hopefully they are in a great place

Same as with My Grandpa .he passed away in December 85 .we spread his ashes into the Gulf of Mexico in January 86

Really, what school? Loara?

I saw this on TV at school, as well. Was in 4th grade. Will never forget it.

@Robbin' Hoods Beats evolution makes a whole lotta more sense to me than saying we were made of clay or mud or dirt and then life was blown into us. If we all came from Adam and Eve we would all have died out due to inbreeding so how does that make sense

Pretty likely they were not all Christian....

I was in 6th grade. Our school only had a few TVs and my teacher wasn't able to get one. The first my class realized that there was something wrong was when the other 6th grade class across the hall started screaming. I can remember the teacher dropping his book and running out of the class. When he came back he was crying.

I was in middle school, too. We were all so excited to watch along with the whole country. As it turned out we had a snow day in Atlanta so I watched from home. I just sat in shock and disbelief. I called my mom immediately and told her what happened. She was home within an hour. It took me years before I would watch another launch. After the SS Columbia incident I’d had enough with SS missions.

@@beckymays1677 think the Challenger was a defining moment for our generation. It's definitely something thst ties us all together. We saw 7 people die. People that to many of us were heros. And we were just expected to deal with it. Many of us saw it live, we all saw it on the news for days, front page of the newspaper. Today, there would be counselors and meetings. Students would be able to talk about the shock and horror. Their grief. For us it was just part of growing up. I wonder how many more of us are done with SS missions.

not in an instant unfortunately.

David Williams kinda odd you’re calling him retarded when I’m pretty sure it should be the other way around

@Cory Templar Alan expressed his feelings of shock is what he is trying to say. Not necessary to be insulting.

@Cory Templar It didn't disintegrate. The crew cabin was recovered, intact, on the ocean floor, and one of the crew members, probably Resnick, activated the pilots' PEAPS. They could not activate those themselves, but they had been activated. Also, Resnick was recovered with an emergency checklist opened. They were alive for the fall.

Who wrote that?

The next star(other than our sun) is roughly 60000 years away with our technology. Good luck

@@winnifredforbes8712 Saigon Bride // Joan Baez ( I changed the lyrics slightly )

@@matthiasrandler669 Our Technology ? The Wright Brothers flew in 1903 ..... 66 years later Americans were walking on the Moon ..... Luck has NOTHING to do with it ......

@@stevenattanasso2003 You dont get my point. Good luck reaching the next star if you need to fly 60000 years,....do you understand that? Or do i even need to further explain it.

I was a junior, and still remember how shocked and sad I felt, but I had schoolmates who reacted so oddly to the news. They actually laughed and joked about it. I believe they were all boys, but it was still certainly an unexpected immature response. When I think back on it though, maybe it was their way of dealing with grief.

Awe , I feel for you Becky but you know sweetheart space travel is dangerous. Come to think 🤔 about it 🚂 driving on the interstate in my city is also dangerous. There are some crazy drivers that do dumb maneuvers.

@Buzz Armstrong moon landing was fake do you have photos of them still alive after this?

Amen

Me too. So shocking. :(

Yes fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me! Yeah I saw it I saw it with my own two eyes!

@@bobbybands1957 I've been to San Francisco and can confirm, some do wear boots.

I watched it live too, it was heartbreaking.

@Paul D....same... immediately after silence and confusion. Brave men and woman risked their lives in pursuit of a greater understanding of this world and life. RIP ✌🏾

And we didn’t need grief counselors did we. Amazing how we survived ! Today’s kids would all be admitted to a hospital for evaluation.

@@krissanchez4816 eh... no... They'd be open for anyone to come to the office and talk about what happened if they needed to. That's what happened at my school whenever someone died...

NutellaFox 🤣.

Life went on in my town when a classmate died or some tragic event happened.

@@krissanchez4816 yeah my town decided that wasn't a good idea when one student suicide led to a chain of 4 more.

That’s called “flashbulb memory”, where something occurs so unexpected and profound and tragic and unprecedented that it is forever imprinted into your memory bank. 9/11 is a perfect example.

Plmncvb You just wanted to watch tv at work.

@@miguelasantiago9543 Real mature. Not even in the realm of funny

@@miguelasantiago9543 That is not even one strand of funny, no humor. A complete insult of saying "you just wanted to watch tv at work" Do you know the number of school children who were basically traumatized? There were even reports of PTSD in some kids. Think before you speak because no one's laughing.

@@miguelasantiago9543 were you even alive or in this country in 1986?

nothing tragic about it all those astronauts ate still alive look it up

amen...

MORON ALERT! They died of course. Plus all you conspiracy idiots, unfortunately, are still alive.

IDIOT!! www.snopes.com/fact-check/false-crew-members-of-1986-space-shuttle-challenger-are-still-alive/

Once you grow up and see a lot of people die in your lifetime you'll lighten up about it, kid.

They were alive and at least some conscious until they hit the water. There is a audio recording from in the cockpit. It gets hotter and hotter as they continue to fall. This video doesn't have the transcript of their last words.

They were talking to the wrong people - tell the pilots it was a suicide mission, and then you get to have a conversation the moment they decide they're not suiting up. But... the operational types always give mission briefings and engineers are not necessarily in the room.

We are killing eachother because we want to cut cost...shame... we are still doing it and it's very unfortunate..

If it was down to me I'd have told the crew about it no questions.

Very unfortunate because we are killing ourselves in the name of cutting cost...

@@RedfurredPikachu All the engineers get is a conference call with the NASA people - no way to warn the Astronauts themselves - tragic, and yeah there SHOULD have been criminal charges for this

Really?

@MattC Croshaw I failed to see the part where your house was mentioned.

@n\a Clear Lake isn't in Florida. McNair trained at Johnson Space Center, which is in Clear Lake, (Houston, TX) and the widow of Dr. McNair and their children still live in Clear Lake.

Fuck off

That’s lies. They’re my neighbours on the moon, and my name is Aiken Drumm.

I read your post and the anguished face of her mom popped up from nowhere !

@@KenBowd WOW!!!!!!

I also remember her facial expression and that was one of not understanding what she just saw. I cried for her and such compassion washed over me. Having lost a son who was 100 miles away from me when he died, I can barely think about how awful it must have been for their mothers and fathers and families to see their loved ones' deaths. To say it was shocking to see the explosion is an understatement. To hear that my son was dead and there was no one there to rescue him or call 911 or even whisper words of love as he slipped away is still as excruciating as ever, even these many years later. My heart goes out to these families I will not forget.

@@tessarix I remember that too. It just broke my heart!!

@@tessarix I am so very sorry about your son. I can't even imagine the pain. God bless you. 🙏🙏🙏

At least they had a chance to say goodbye

I can imagine that they were knocked unconscious by the explosion and that they didn't have to endure those horrific last minutes in the way like you mentioned. Is there any information on that?

@@Nessevan apparently they were able to get their breathing systems on before impact which to investigators meant they were alive and conscious after the explosions.

​@@ryana3679 Heartbreaking to imagine what they went through in those last moments. Thanks for responding Ryan. All the best from The Netherlands.

@@Nessevan I agree. May they rest in peace. I am from Canada. Take care my friend.

To call astronauts flight attendants is unbelievably insulting. That’s not to say flight attendants don’t go through a lot, but astronauts are something else.

sh57, God, how awful to know in advance.

Yeah that was sad. At that time, NASA had to bolt the door shut so when the Astronauts and NASA realized there was a fire they couldn't get the door opened fast enough so three men burned to death in a man made pressure cooker. God Bless those three Astronauts

They didn't fry. They died from toxic smoke.

Pure oxygen in cockpit, who would have guessed it was flammable. Certainly not the so called geniuses in NASA. Murder, nothing less.

There is a recording of the Apollo 1 incident on RU-vid. It’s very chilling.

all that excitement and months of training just for it to end like this

Its as if they may have heard something bad moments before the ship flew apart.

@@Scioneer My guess is when the commander throttled up he felt the lack of power due to the leaking fuel or something, then BOOM.

Unfortunately, it wasn't instant. They were all still alive falling for several minutes inside the capsule. They died upon impact with the water.

@@smilergrogan1725 Is this verified as true?

Forgive my ignorance, isnt there an eject button these days?

@@onethousandtwonortheast8848 yes

@@smilergrogan1725 ~3 of them were alive after the blast.

Man, i remember that like it was yesterday. Sad day.

Yep, 6 of them are alive and well today. Even a few mainstream media networks exposed this before being silenced by the powers that be but there's a ton of credible information available to see.

@@bobbybands1957 Hey Bobby, I heard about that also. Someone told me that all of the astronauts are alive today living under different names.

@@bobbybands1957 Do u have info on this? I just read about this tonight.

Wow. What the actual fuck is wrong with some of you people? What’s to gain by faking a shuttle disaster? Abortion has absolutely nothing to do with this. What a sick and twisted world perspective. I would love to see one of these astronauts children knock on your door and punch you square in the mouth and make you shit teeth for a week. Must be a Republican thing to mock and try to discredit Americans who gave their life for MY country and to the advancement of SCIENCE. Yes that’s a real thing.

The challenger disaster silenced and gave the worst pain and grief to everyone and the space community. These 7 poor soul gave their life to the stars and to increase safety in human spaceflight.

This was the sign right there that they shouldn't go up and reason it exploded correct?

A sad, sad day for America and for us all. Spaceflight is, in fact, dangerous, and always will be. That's a whole lot of explosive fuel under that capsule.

J Manning ... I watched it live as well… Didn’t it come down to a $.25 O ring that failed?

Xardox17 I agree 💯 %. A very sad day indeed... not to downplay this tragedy and loss, was this the lady and man astronauts “supposedly” having an affair? Or I think that was that a different crew.. am I correct? This crew had the teacher onboard..correct?

@@G513-y3o yes it was down to that extremely inexpensive O ring. I watched it live as well. ✌

Unfortunately that is what they signed up for. Bless them.

They give all of the astronauts good memorials :) I live in the same neighborhood that Ronald Macnair lived in when he was an astronaut. The big park in the neighborhood is named after him.

No, Morton Thiokol recommended that they not launch. They knew it was too cold for those O-rings.

Buddy....you're posting shit people already know...same story has been posted a hundred times before yours.....pay attention !!!

Except they are all alive and well today: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PxqhU6nEy6c.html

J. A. That was my thought too. I saw it live as well, but kept thinking surely if they are all in that capsule, they’ll splash down in the water, safe. As terrible as it was for us tv viewers, those poor families seeing it is unimaginable. RIP.

Her parents watched it happen from the viewing stands in Florida. Can you imagine?

I saw it too and couldn't believe it just like when I saw the trade centers being blown up.horrible

@Marechal Zolotoy the loss and shock was profoundly felt here in Europe too. Not sure why you feel that only Americans cared about this?

Joshua Plotkin he said Uh Oh about 2 seconds before the shuttle exploded. There wasn't time to say anything else. He literally says Uh Oh and then the shuttle explodes.

Typical pilot talk. These guys are cool and are trained to deal with emergencies. He knew, this one was different.....they were toast.

They left out the teachers last words. ( "What is this big red button that says self de..something")

He probably had just seen that some reading was off... probably a sensor or two burned out right before the explosion.

I had a friend whose father worked in mission control that day. He told father in front of us that they were some alive after impact with the water, and someone was trying to talk. I watched it outside the classroom I was in Orlando at that time. My teacher slapped my face when I screamed it exploded. Horrible weeks , months and years I don't know why I don't seem able to let go even after all this time. My heart still aches for everyone who suffered from this.

@@strgazerlilly Nobody was fucking alive after water impact. They hit at 230mph. You don't shake that one off. They were DISMEMBERED upon impact.

@@strgazerlilly The crew was alive until the crew cabin hit the water. Video exists of them rubbing their uniforms, (prolly fuel penetrating their suits) None of the crew survived the impact with the water They were basically smashed flat. Some of the bodies were initially identified by the name patch on the uniform when recoverd they were placed in 55 gallon drums for transport to a nearby facility..

@@strgazerlilly That is absolutely chilling either way you look at it. I guess we'll never really know exactly what happened after the break up but you know it wasn't a pleasent end for any of them.

@@Nick-wn1xw I would have rather died in the air than to face that kind of death. Holy shit that would be horrible.

I was in social studies.

Home room... my dad worked on portions of the orbiter and I watched every flight from the first to this one religiously. This flight was delayed enough that we could watch it in my class at school and not at 3 or 4 in the morning like normal.

I was in college sitting in biology lecture class.