Space shuttle Challenger explosion CBS Evening News

[helljumpr5150]

"The first civilian in space..." Right at the very moment humanity realized space was open for everyone, then gets destroyed and won't be revived for decades if not ever...

Rest in peace the crew of Challenger.

[searchanddiscover]

to me the most angering thing about the challenger accident is not just that it was preventable but that the lessons on the evils of negligence was still not learned and caused yet another accident.

[Mathiashamzamirza]

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't...

[XxMoniePhoePhyvexX]

I cant believe they actually let challenger lift off after all the doubts smh wow

[RaachellWest]

i saw shuttle endeavor go up

[treasurehunter911]

Jessie Moore's statement was a lie. That same night, Ronald reagan was to address the nation and in his speech he was going to mention Christa McAuliffe above the world to educate us on the excitement of space travel. If they had put it off 1 more day, the lessons she was to teach would not have been heard because they were set for the 4th day of the mission, which would then have been Saturday or Sunday. I will never forget them. Truly a very sad moment for our nation and their families.

[1800akatsuki]

those 7 scientist got blown to bits. they could never to find the complete body parts of the victims

[Koldeman]

@1800akatsuki "blown to bits", that's not true. The crew cabin was intact and was blown clear during the explosion. Some or all of the crew survived the initial blast, some may have still been conscious. It was the blunt force trauma of hitting the ocean surface that killed them if any were still alive and they were all found dead in the crew cabin by recovery teams. The real horror isn't the false assumption that they were blown apart- it was that they may have been aware & helpless.

[KOHF34]

The Space Shuttle Challenger is a classic example of groupthink. They were so thrilled that they were launching a teacher into space that they ignored the engineers who warned it wasn't safe to launch. Those people are criminals for doing so.

[KimCheeWarrior]

it mustve been horrifying for not just the families at the audience at the launch pad, but for every one in the immediate area that were watching it from a distance. those people were the real victims in this tragedy because they have to live with the tragedy in their memories as it actually happened.

[WhiteMarz]

Not sure if the film is trustworthy, but I watched a documentary about a man who told them something was wrong and if they lifted off it would definitely explode, but whoever was in charge of the mission refused to take his advice. After it exploded he felt people had the right to know what happened.

[aimhigh59]

@WhiteMarz There was a guy who advised not to launch but could not back up his claims. Thats why his company gave the go ahead to Nasa to launch. There is no one person that blesses each launch or gives the ok. It takes many people. The design of the booster joints was showing problems from the first launch up to this one. It was called blow by. Nasa choose to ignore it until the perfect storm made it a factor. I witnessed it live....

[twinturbonissan300zx]

Contrary to the flight dynamics officer's initial statement, the shuttle and external tank did not actually "explode".[15] Instead they rapidly disintegrated under tremendous aerodynamic forces, since the shuttle was slightly past "Max Q", or maximum aerodynamic pressure ("past" meaning that the dynamic pressure had started to decrease after reaching its maximum).

[KF6LIL]

It was the O-ring's and a possibly faulty tank back then so nasa corrected it's problems & launched endeavor in 1992 which should've been challenger2 , but now the grieving families of that accident are rich from nasa's you nasa paid of those families of the 7 astronauts...Yes we were shocked & stunned to what either seen on t.v or there at nasa in person & youtube is a great learning tool & time capsule for everyone.

[KOHF34]

They still didn't get the hint after Challenger, then came Columbia.

[omega4chimp]

Why don't we have giant space ships that are assembled in space because their so huge like the one in the movie The Rodger Young - Starship Troopers?it would be like the f-22 all the country could invest into it come on don't you wanna see some real sci-fi shit in your life time?

[getar12345]

that bird at 3:40 can even tell he's lying

[Aliyahsohawon]

This is absolutley true, my mum was wtching it on the news.

its not fake.

dis is bre peak how ppl actually died and ppl think its fake? naa its not.

[ThisIsJaice]

HE HAS CROWS BEHIND HIM.! -LIESSSS.!

[MisterGasMan]

thanks for this piece of history

[SNAKEEYESSAM]

they should have stopped nasa then.close up shop

[kkwuzhere67]

@TatianaSword would you just fuck off already?

[dragonboy718]

should have never ever been allowed to launch...

[lawnmowerman37]

it should have never happened it was to cold later launch maybe would have been successfull so i believe nasa is responsable

[Marty933]

The night before the explosion, the engineers who designed and built the solid rocket boosters and the o-rings were on the phone with Nasa officials begging them not to launch if it was too cold. One of the main designers threatened to quit (and actually did) if they launched in such low temps. The top Nasa officials were warned but were more afraid of political and press pressure than risking the astronauts' lives.

[koaheart]

The commission said NASA's decision to launch the shuttle was flawed. Top level decision makers had not been informed of problems with the joints and O rings or the possible damaging effects of cold weather. The Commission also concluded that there was a serious flaw in the decision making process leading up to the launch of flight 51-L.

[ch4guy4life]

I was a freshman at Notre Dame. It happened on either a Tues or Thurs because I remember going to my Tu/Thr class at 1:15, and my professor had not heard the news yet.

[FlyBoyGrounded]

I don't really have the words any more to express how I feel about this now. 25 years ago it made me want to write a song and the anniversary made me want to share it. Please go and have a listen to my tribute song posted on my YouTube channel.

[Skybolter]

WTF went wrong with the launch ?

[yabodmon]

@Skybolter well she took a glass of water before she went down on me , then she started fueling my rocket, after about an hour of constant fuel pumping , i got ready for take off , i always give a heads up before i launch my rocket. but in the mix of it all .. i lost communication and ended up exploding right before her eyes!

what can u do, everything cant always go as planned.

[TrOLLKiLLeRs1]

@Brentsey

SImple for you, find a gas oven, turn on all of the gas knobs (do not light) allow gas to circulate for about half an hour, then YOU stand in front of oven and light match.....have fun with your explosion idiot.

[chitownreak]

i remember the shuttle exploding and the teachers turning off the t.v and leaving us alone as they went to watch in the teachers lounge they lucky that we didnt give a shit!

[jgatorful]

@chitownreak Ya my teacher was crying and all of us were like "what the fuck"?

I was 9 years old.

[quintmora74]

how many of us were in the p.e. fields at our schools watching this! i will never forget!

[jakevanek]

Hard to believe it's been 25 years!

[brandonvotaw]

i wish i could bring those 7 astronauts back as new people.

[jmeove]

Fuck up.

[TheHeathenAngel]

@Gruntsplatter ...dick

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 1:00, It Was CBS News' CBS Evening News With Dan Rather Video Open From Tuesday Evening, January 28, 1986.

[JoanCollins2009]

rip xx

[TatianaSword]

1#Explosions

[kpartlow17]

Lewisvann and london -those Heroes are taking risks on behalf of humanity ,going places where you could never in exploring frontiers to stretch the human hand ,reaching where only a select few dare to go to expand our world farther on one trip than ten generations of you could ever.

[LilSmiles012]

The ppl went in shuttle where happy to go in space . That was said when itz was TV on that . They didn't have to die like that

[sanyo51]

that broke my heart watching the parents

[102justinbieberfan]

that is so sad!

[mediatramp]

THEY are...all heroes and modern day explorers. GOD BLESS THEM ALL

[LondonNYLA]

Records are all meant to be broken; eventually, someone will die on the moon, on mars, etc.

[lewisvann]

To IamPatriot94: They are not heroes..they are a bunch of random people doing jobs they wanted to do that has high risk involved, and unfortunately due to someone else's stupid error, they died Will all Americans get off the bandwagon of calling everyone a hero for anything that they get killed doing as part of the normal course of their job they chose. A hero in my mind who takes a risk for behalf of someone else that could endanger them, and they had no reason to do it ie not their job.

[LondonNYLA]

@lewisvann:

Right on! People die every day doing their job because of other people, or themselves, messing up. Some die spectacularly, some don't.

[Celestein]

Even though we knew the risks, what still makes me weep is seeing the teacher's parents watching. Helplessly seeing your own child destroyed under your eyes... the thought alone is unbearable. Brave people.

[edgaritoaqui]

our technology is not perfect and will never be.

[Landia69230]

@edgaritoaqui Technology ? But it's the confidence too high of men who kill them !

[Squad2ND]

The persons who put pressure on to send Challengers to space despite all the things that could go wrong, are god damn criminals!

[StreakyTheFurry]

@Squad2ND and they still got their promotions! even though they KNEW this

would happen! What disgusts me is that nobody did anything about it when

they were informed of the matter.

[DAXAR100]

Roger Boisjoly is a national Hero along with those astronauts. If those morons at NASA and Morton "salt" Thiokol had listen to him and did not go through with the launch in such a cold weather, those seven brave people would be alive today. Arrogance and stupidity don't mix.

[IamPatriot94]

Those poor astronauts.They were so happy and confident.Those heroes died without any pain.God have mercy on there souls.

[Robbaz]

I think they crashed with god.

[habbadou]

dan rather NOT

[elmo61]

"There was absolutely no pressure to get this particular launch off..." Liar liar, pants on fire.

[JPPolachek]

@elmo61 Anyone who says that just does not know the history of Challenger. It is people who simply dont study history and dont know what they are talking about. Very similar to 9/11 Truthers. It's sad and very distrubing really.

[onedollarwill]

@JPPolachek Who are the 9/11 truthers? Who are the 9/11 LIARS?

[Alxe73191]

8:27 no shit!

[rdvd7]

To what some one said about they could wish that they could go back and stop this; I would Not go back to prevent it, because of this sacrifice, NASA found the flaws with the shuttle and where able to correct them on the entire fleet. If no-one knew of the flaws then we could have lost more than the 2 shuttles (Challenger and Columbia). Still we can't forget the crews who where trying to advance the Human race. RIP all 14 brave Astronauts.

[mach25man]

This was not a fleet problem. This was a booster design flaw.

[rdvd7]

Well yes, but they corrected the O-rings and other flaws on all the future SRBs and nothing like Challenger (An explosion) has happend since.

[mach25man]

They redesigned the joint completely, added a 3rd O-ring and added joint heaters. What were the other flaws ?

[Maxwell2323]

Dan Rather is a complete moron and only the liberals like the guy. He has a horrible legacy now and keeps trying to change it. He is done. Pathetic liberal.

[able421]

And a journalist, which is more than you can say about anyone in tv news today.

[10TVMan]

Now isn't that a brilliant comment.

[rafalweb]

5:35 - Now I know where Billy Mays got his incredibly annoying style.....

[rafalweb]

Dan was a great journalist until he mucked his legacy up.

[mannyortiz36]

nasa commentator steve nesbitt giving the flight info

houston: challenger go at throttle up.

challenger commander dick scobee: roger go at throttle up.

(unhearn on the ground to air/loop, heard on deck flight recorder recovered from alantic)

challenger pilot mike smith: uh oh!

[leifvier]

nice firework :)

[wjack12]

you wanted them to die?

[CGtrojans11]

Dan Rather is weird!

[MartinusPrime]

I was born on that day. Makes it all the more interesting.

[sebringdnf]

A tragic day.  And Dan Rather is annoying.

[amit790]

I wasn't even born yet when this happened. I was born 6 months later after this tragedy

[themanismad]

First grade for me. I'll never forget it - we watched it live and like many other schools, we were let out early.

[starkweather444]

I was in 8th grade and I remember this like it was yesterday.

[NYCMESBRNX]

Yeah, I had my 8th grade writing test that day. The writing test ended in the morning and they let us go home early. Saw it as it happened. Remember it like yesterday.

[schrollG]

This may sound crazy, but I wish I could go back in time and stop this horrible disaster from happening.

[mannyortiz36]

what is more intresting then you defying physics by time traveling is your ability to stop nasa from being morons when you get back there........this disaster was caused by nasa not listening to it's engineers more then anythinglese

[zodiacgirl33]

I was in the 3rd grade when this happened; but i remember it like it was yesterday...i am 30 years old now....what a sad, sad day......

[Chrisjr2007]

It desinigrated!

It broke up!

Not explode!

[Blowme1000]

I actually remember watching this newscast. Another day that shook America.

[charles21180]

23 years ago today, r.i.p

[fperdomo]

I was in Kindergarten

we watched the launch live... the teacher turned it off 30 seconds after the explosion and told us.."we better get back to our lesson".. shocking shit!!!

Ive been obsessed ever since...

what a sad coincidence that of all shuttles to blow up it had to be the one with 1) a cevilian teacher and 2) a astronaught musician who was going to record the first song ever recorded in space

SAAD!!

[tombstoner79]

I was in kindergarten too. We didn't watch it.

[AlexandraLara]

So sad! I cant believe NASA is closing its program!

[TonyW1000]

It's not exactly closing the program. The Space Shuttle launch system is to be retired in late 2010. By that time it will be 29 years old. NASA is developing a new spacecraft (some of it's technology learned from shuttle and Apollo craft) that will go back to the Moon and maybe Mars too. The new spacecraft isn't funded as well as it should be and probably won't be ready until 2014 or later but the shuttle isn't as safe as it should be and it is not capable of leaving Earth's orbit.

[Stonejohn28]

Dan Rather's a tool.

[hlewis420]

eat a dick, asshole

[patmix]

dan rather rules

[DorvellTStewart]

Katie's pretty good as well.

[Zoroasterrrr]

I watched this with my thirds grade class, live on television. I remeber afterwards my teacher turned off the television sat down and cried. I knew what had happened and realized that the greatest challenge in life would be survival.

[gregfujita]

There was a great deal of pressure by Reagan because that evening was the stae of the union address and Reagan wanted to post and mention about the Challenger, no matter what. Way to go Ronnie, 7 great Americans dead

[Reggie1971]

Great deal of pressure?  You have evidence of this?

[gobo760]

Well according to The Rogers Commission, they found that "Political pressures and public relations seem to have taken a front seat in the erred decision making process at NASA." The commission never said what the "political pressures" were (because if someone asks you to jump off a bridge and you do it, no one is responsible in the end but you.) Instead they focused in on what needed to be changed at NASA. But many in the press assumed the "political pressure" was the Reagan administration.

[RJY4356]

That is just complete and total bullshit. No one at the White House has anything to do with KSC launch decisions about what day and time they go exactly. BUnch of crap.

[unrealdellkat]

I wasn't around during that when it explosion but I was around when Columbia Broke up during Re-entry in 2003. I was in shocked during that time.

[huggyface]

I remember having stayed home from school the day of the '86 explosion...I saw it live on TV, and was horrified. A teacher at my junior hi-school even applied to be the "teacher in space"; thankfully he wasn't chosen!

[zaius316]

Dan's a little too upbeat using the model to describe the explosion.

[albertarn]

Is there more to this? Would love to see the rest.

[tombstoner79]

Can you post some more?

[newcrack24]

grabe..