Challenger Explodes

[7163913]

3 astronauts actually survived during explosion and died, when they ramed into water, coz speed was over 300 km/h

[flugelrad1]

iyi oldu

[4udoKot]

по телевизору показывали и у нас вроде тоже

[Vegas1Joker]

I want another Explosion. lololololol

[scuzzulus]

"obviously a major malfunction" ...you don't say...

[angelcuteness55]

oh wow and they dont do nothin wats rong with these people

[hedgecliffedge]

@angelcuteness55 What the fuck can they do? Get up there and stop it ?

[JosephBr0seph]

@angelcuteness55 you're a dumbass

[TheSpeedwayMan]

dirt americans

[Rovan92]

А ведь они могли выжить!!

[4udoKot]

@Rovan92 они могли выжить если бы были ниже гораздо

[apaljapaz]

i cant believe what kind off comments i see... for some people this is a tragedy where they lost maybe their family maybe their friend and maybe their idol... think about it before you written something stupid... ach why even bored arguing with stupid bitches who take this as fun:P respect to the crew who actually have the balls and brain to do sth like this.. sth nobody else dares or cant.. especially stupid f. trols!

[FOSEEBOY]

I thought this video was a BLAST!

[Fedwyerik]

Looks like Christa McAullife and her crew took their vacations all over Florida. LOL.

[WolfLoverism]

@Fedwyerik This is the same comment you put on another challenger explosion video. This is sad and no time for jokes.

[storyofakid10]

it is rocket science.

[TheBOLDYR]

вечная память героям!

[pulseimages]

@TheBOLDYR Аминь!

[sakusia]

I believe this event had a profound impact on the American psyche. It was a very shocking event of the 1980's. RIP crew

[retardomohammed]

Every disaster in the United States seems to be a conspiracy or a hoax. Was the U.S. civil war a conspiracy too. Does the States exactly exist?

[hameed]

@retardomohammed no of course states dont exist

[funnyanimationguy]

Obviously a major malfunction.

[Patsbug66]

troll, not even gonna respond below me

[TatianaSword]

This is so fake it's all a hoax

[mattsnow81]

@TatianaSword the moon landing was

[KimmurielBaenre]

@mattsnow81 Pictures have been taken of the landing sites by other countries satellites, the moon landing happened. Take off the tin foil hat and put down the cool-aid..

[mattsnow81]

@KimmurielBaenre The cool-aid is good and how did you know I had a tin foil hat?!?!

[N1k1mon]

@BTIsaac

Well if you really want to know, from what I've heard, the only launches to fail and kill the crew happened when the crew were NOT all Freemasons.

But seriously, your arrogance and ignorance will be terminally deflated within the next few years as you find out much of history has been orchestrated for millenia. Ever wonder how a few connected elite have 6,000,000,000 people under their thumbs? Good planning.

[MrHalo005]

Just what the heck happened???

[mwizard216]

Reagan should have blamed this on Iran and invaded them

[mwizard216]

I remember being in 2nd grade growing up in Salem NH . I went to Dr Louis School (i think that was the name) and I remember the teacher hauling in the TV so we could all see. We all watched as it exploded. None of the kids really cared, it was like watching some video game to me I guess. I'm not sure, but I remember me and many of the kids being indifferent not sure what it was about.

[jojopuppyfish]

@mwizard216 You saw it live and you were indifferent.

I remember hearing about it at the time and not thing much of it......sort of like a typical news event. But seeing it live would have been shocking. I was 13 btw

[BTIsaac]

4 years worth of comments and I barely see a single conspiracy theory. Come one guys. where are the people claiming good old Dubya summoned the legions of Hell with the Illuminanti's Necromonicon to destroy the shuttle and use the insurance money to fund the war on Iraq and exterminate all muslims? He even had the British royal family sacrifice princess Diana for the ritual.

[starkweather444]

fake.

[nushea]

@starkweather444 its not fake dipshit people died in that explosion wht dont you open a history book asshole

[kikicreamify]

This is sad, why did it explode? I remember this, I was a kid.

[sarge11375]

did astronauts died?

[klsstheglrls]

@sarge11375  they survived the explosion, but with the decompression after would have killed them

[TheFlametards]

@sarge11375 did astronauts die, the thing exploded what do you think?

[slipknotdudefan]

HI THIS IS COLTON FROM EDMORE!!!!

[7AAA7]

R.I.P Brave ppl

[teetertotter68]

I was 5 at the time. I watched this at school in kindergarten, and when this happened, I can still see Ms. Kuprow taking us out of the classroom. Now I look back at it and it impresses me how the anchormen can keep their cool so well. R.I.P. Challenger crew

[Thadumas]

Once the lower attachment strut on the side rocket failed, it swiveled. It poked a hole in the giant center fuel tank and smashed against the shuttle. There was no explosion. High speed air tore everything apart once the whole assembly got pointed just a little in the wrong direction. The astronauts were alive for a 2-minute free-fall to the water below.

[Thadumas]

The rockets on the side are put together like 6 beer cans stacked one atop the other. Where the cans meet, fancy rubber rings are intended to contain the hellfire raging inside. NASA knew it was too cold to launch that day, but the President was there, and they wanted to make him happy. The cold made the rubber stiff. The moment they lifted off, the fire burned through one of the rubber rings, and began to melt the part that connected the bottom of one of the rockets to the fat, center tank.

[Applemask]

Horror, live.

[psymanonono]

it looks like the shuttle gave up the moment they reach the sound barrier. Allways check all your screws!!

[ferrari8131]

gamatoooo0

[RedLink07]

"obviously a major malfunction"... duh... obviously a total disaster!

[AdventureStudying]

2minutes 01seconds, Uh Houston, Looks like someone cheated on their math final.

[darkone12491]

lol

[tpaadministrator]

what about the other astronauts 's entire family's. Christa wasn't special - no more than anyone else on that ride

[biped19]

This is what happens when science & safety are ignored, and good people are forced to make bad decisions because of politicians and their "image."

R.I.P Challenger crew.

[stuart38]

they did not hit the earth,sir.they had been blown so hard away from the explosion,they hit the sea,where their bodies were recovered,apparently intact.

[mo129932]

rip challenger and colubia

[redskinfan17]

columbia...

[SSAufklaerer]

R.I.P. English language...

[CRUDSLUDGE]

i saw this live in elementary school wowsers

[kdjfnvjvd]

They most likely survived the explosion and breakup of the space craft. The crew died when the cabin impacted the earth.

[taratatabo]

1:37

[Timsalt3100]

1986 Such a sad year first this then Chernobyl , which were both caused by catasphrophic errors , but what is sadder is that so many people lost there lives.

I hope both the challenger crew and the lost lives from chernobyl rest in peace.

[REnightmare]

This is horrible...

[TheLotusEater725]

Well that's no way to go into space.

[MedicDoc101]

i am sure if someone you knew/loved personally was on that shuttle your comment would of been written in better taste, very selfish way of thinking you got going...

[adreanix]

i lol'd

[jassinlive]

wow, the commentator seemed so calm

[ijey82]

I know! That was so unnerving.

[artwleb]

keep in mind the commentator was looking at a screen of data

that was delayed several seconds and not watching the actual flight. He is selected to be calm and professional,

[mattsnow81]

@artwleb Yeah, you're right, I can hardly imagine the commentator going: " Oh NOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WTF?!?! WTF?!?!?!

[Makedonwow]

@mattsnow81 Yea, he could've shown some empathy at least... There's a big space between going nuts like you described and being totally apathetic.

In a huge tragedy like this, people are expected to show their humane side :)

[squeakymarm]

this was to the 80"s what the JFK assassination was to the 60"s and 911 was to this decade...and it was the first shuttle fatality...we thought we were invincible...so glad today's shuttle Atlantis landed safely!

[AlexSHavok]

true true just landed today right and no problems happend so the second shuttle didnt have to go up

[IJariJuniorI]

word

[skylinedesigns]

I don't know why everyone is saying this is "so sad". Yeah it sucked, but thousands of people die everyday. Simply because this was televised doesn't make it more sad.

[PaulsAcademy]

Yes, many people die each day. But one of our few sources of hope and optimism during the Cold War also appeared to have died on that particular day, and it was very sad, indeed. Especially with the first civilian on this flight, exploring space together seemed like an antidote to the threat of mutually assured destruction through nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Only the nuclear threat remained by the time the events shown in this video ended. It was an incomprehensible shock.

[horsewoman34]

omg i finnally watched it!

SO SAD and it seems like the guy didnt even care... :( REST IN PEACE

[horsewoman34]

i was so scared to watch this.... it so sad....why do people hav to die? :(

Rest In Peace...

[Holbeinisscheisse]

nobody died? they all died.... Rest In peace! this is so sad...

[ftheworld100]

damn nobody die that sucks.

[hochanryu56]

stupid astroauts. at least the smoke made a cool shape it lookes like a peeled banana

[mark031295]

好慘..............

[NightHawk0550]

Actually the shuttles are being used past 2010. I was at the NASA Space Center yesterday and a good portion of the employees are saying that the shuttles are being used at least for another 3 years. They need the shuttles to finish up the I.S.S. anyways. Should read up on the return to the moon mission though. Seems pretty cool. :)

[rumbleforce2]

shuttle flights will go till december 2010

[DementhorJuanes]

jajajaja noobs!!!

[xXxInF3cTiOnxXx]

So no more going i nto space by 2010

[proxykillah]

shuttle program is being killed on 2010 - ie next year, not a decade from now

[llednarhawke]

@proxykillah actually in 2011



[tpaadministrator]

@llednarhawke notice my 2010 comment was well before they announced extending the missions :)

[proxykillah]

Oh Yeah, you mean kinda like the same view your momma see's nightly after taking one of her fat redneck men from the corner pub home each night ?

Yeah, I remember

[cbrucker]

Oh, now there's an intelligent comment! Wow, I'm really blown away by the depth of the wisdom and flat out genius of what you had to say there (even if you couldn't spell "EXPLODING" correctly.

I guess it's beyond you to realize that this accident killed 7 people (two of whom I knew) and put more than 20,000 people on the sidelines for a little over two years.....but you see this video, and you see a "penis". Rock on genius. C~

[lovezrocknroll]

You know something, I never thought I would ever find some one this disrespectful and stupid in my life. You must use ur penis as a brain you dumb red neck. Can't friken even IMAGINE what this day ment for so many people that you have to go and leave and dumbass comment like that..

No respect..

[vafanguleva]

wat the hell is the matter with you. 7 people died in this tragedy and all u have to say about it is it looks like a penis. Your the type of person that this world doesnt need. What if someone in your family was in that ship, how would you feel if someone says hey it looks like a penis. I don't think you would of appreciated it much. You have no respect and i hope you get your ass kicked one day. F**** you.

[MarcusKiner]

why don't you bitch at the guy below who said something about the scorpion smoke below, or the people who say they saw the devils face in the 9/11 attacks too?

[dgt4444]

its because this movafucker has no sex life at all i assure u thats why hes obsessed with penis

[karisatan]

at 1:46 the smoke looks like a scorpion O.o

[chsxtian]

a scorpion in the smoke... i guess you don't have anything better to do then watching movies of disasters on youtube and trying to see things in the smoke...

(and i know my english isn't perfect)

[karisatan]

well that was the only crash i watch or commented on.

i notice youre watching it too?

[chsxtian]

i'm not looking for things in the smoke... ;D

[hahanikka]

dumb ass humans

[ecoplastico]

that was bad

i mean that was a tragedy

for the whole humanity

1986 was a real bad year

cause we have the Chernobyl Accident

and this :S

it was bad ..

[Kinkola]

The death of the High Tech style

[muflexambalat]

idem stormholloway

[stonedslacker]

So sad.

[DisneyMousse]

This is awesome baby

[woodman19]

as good as the shuttle is, im quite shocked of the lack of Abort system

when your sitting on thousands of pounds of fuel under pressure, you should have a way to quickly get the crew out of there

[bigbradford69]

rofl your kidding right

[woodman19]

what do you mean?

[Keitel87]

It's a good idea, there's just absolutely no way we could manage such a feat. The crew would suffer severe injuries if not death, and there's a risk of being engulfed by the flames.

[stormholloway]

How could both the people speaking in this video be so completely clueless as to what happened? Everyone just exploded and they're acting like someone acts when a bag of pretzels get stuck in a vending machine.

[XRosyBladeAlchemyX]

i think they were completely shocked at what happened and they weren't believing what they were seeing

[mpc91]

He doesn't react because the idea of a tragedy like this didn't even occur to people.

There had never been an explosion like this in a space flight.

I'm just going to guess that you're under 30 and are viewing this as abstract history. If you were alive in 1986 you'd understand.

[lingojac]

so horrific, i'm surprised how calm the newsman and the man on the radio stayed

[RocketUpAndBoom]

amazing ^w^

[medici62]

I don't think he knew they were dead.

[medici62]

how could anyone think that this is funny? This is a terrible loss of human life.

[leifvier]

nice firework :)

[Kforkuzgun]

obviously a major malfunction? u think ;?(

[redballyou]

he's professional.

[whatthehellbrosef]

Wow, a lot of low quality people leaving comments here.

I only hope I can make up for some of them with my endless respect for the astronauts of this and all other NASA flights.

[53v3N7]

Boom, baby!

[balcake9]

A CHALLENGER DISAPPEARS

[redballyou]

lolol

[Revo1986]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

[DanielTheWalrus]

LOL! The reporter didn't have a clue of what the fuck was going on...

[Darkrevas]

Muito doido...

[foo2913]

Would you want to be shot into space in a rocket built by the lowest bidder?

[mdelcamp1]

Obviously a major malfunction. The rubber O-ring seals failed in the cold morning temperatures, specifically as they "throttled up" from 65 percent engine thrust. The teacher on board, Christa McAuliffe, is memorialized and remembered in the Concord, New Hampshire based "McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center" which is newly expanded.

[ecwboy12345]

there was a teacher in there

[GroovyKid07]

i think no one understood what actually happened until later.

[everybodyforgets]

1 of the worst lanches since Apollo 1.

[4ntid0te]

The Apollo 1 incident wasn't a launch though. The fire occurred during a simulation.

[poopongi2]

yea but knowone died in apollo 1

[hafive0fan]

Actually, all three Apollo 1 astronauts died on the launch pad...

[poopongi2]

o yea i got it confused with the one that went up but never went to space

[kimmmmiex3]

the people didnt even care that much when it exploded

[seventy5cent832]

they didnt know what happened

[mpc91]

It didn't register that the shuttle had exploded. It was inconceiveable that such a thing could happen.

It's not apathy, it's confusion and disbelief.

[TheLotusEater725]

What about all of the rockets that exploded during the space race?

[mpc91]

30 years prior, and unmanned.

[g0ing2n0where]

Its weird how nobody seems to panic in this.

[DLPBurke]

real life is not the movies

[sage96]

now dats just sad!!!!! poor people

[merrett]

Nice going, NASA

[achmedlolol]

Most expensive 4th july rocket ever fired, and it didn't even look good

[azipzidup]

hahahahhahahahahh that's a good one :)

[WarPigz0]

My mother was pregnant at the time with me when she watched this happen live. What a shitty day that must have been.

[pshen1989]

i'm sorry!

[JEBLLC]

They might of been alive till they hit the water. about two mins after it broke up. The crew compartment was intact

[leslie12180420]

my theory as well!

[chriseurosong]

"might have". Not "might of".

[JEBLLC]

English is created by humans, so how can anyone be sure of the exact way to spell something. Humans only know what humans teach themselves. All our knowledge is purely a hypothesis. They could of spelled it FORENEM and everyone would think hey that means "might have".

[chriseurosong]

What a load of old bollocks.

Yes, language evolves. But linguistic evolution happens correctly over hundreds of years - and for good reasons.

You, on the other hand - far from making a well-thought-out statement about which direction you think the English language should take - are a simple idiot who does not know how to use correct grammar.

Now please refrain from posting further messages in public until such time as you have learned to write. Thank you.

[DLPBurke]

here here

[gnarkillkicksass]

Their emergency air wasn't pressurized so though they might have been alive they wouldn't be conscious.

[HomerSimpson1901]

Dieser doowe O- Ring

Gas aus turbinen in Wasserstofftank = Bummm!

Leider!!

Nur weils so kalt war!!

[sunstone12]

It didn't explode - it broke up under extreme dynamic forces. The "explosion" is all the fuel bursting out of it's pressurised tanks, theres no actual flames as the fuel is freezing it cant heat up quickly enough.

[ManDudeYeah]

.....seriously? I imagine it didn't take too long for that little explosion to do them in.

[Danny13458]

oh my god

[ProjektMayham]

i love watching shit blow up.

amazing

[marsgal42]

I remember that awful morning.

I was watching the launch preparations on TV while getting ready to go to work. At work one of our students came in and said "Did you hear? They lost the shuttle."

I felt myself turn grey and went home sick...

[logartist]

I saw this live in my first grade class at 6 yrs old. We were all excited about the 'teacher astronaut.'

[sovietspyguy]

To the people talking about the guy that said "major malfunction," that was one of the people in the control room. They don't all have a direct live camera feed of the shuttle. They are looking at various diagnostics and other things from the shuttle. They didn't see it explode, they just realized that they had a sudden loss of all communication from the shuttle. They didn't realize until a bit later what actually happened.

[bmprocket7]

they are the biggest dumbfucks ever for doing it on a day where there was ice covered on all of the shit on the back...retards

[wildonrio]

Um they built a space shuttle. I think "retards" might be the wrong word choice.

[mickyhunt]

"Obviously a major malfunction" are you blind or what? didnt just see the whole thing blow away ? lol

[zzzzz87]

I know, and gotta hand it to the anchor for remaining composed, but these people are so dumbfounded they of course don't even know what they just saw

[flyboy339745]

May they rest in peace...