STS-6, Challenger's first launch & landing (4-4-83)

[WhiteFalcon83]

Wow... lol, this is the launch that my dad missed because I was being born ^_^

[jetfreak4]

I can't believe these are a thing of the past. It's too unreal.

[400exNick]

Yeah it def sounds like Scobee saying " roger go at throttle up". So sad that those would be his last words a few years later:(.

[ceredigio]

@400exNick Scobee did not fly on this flight, he was the ascent capcom, so he said 'you are go at throttle up'. But yes it is sad to think he would be Challenger's last commander. (The crew on this mission was Paul Weitz, Bo Bobko, Story Musgrave and Don Petersen.)

[ceredigio]

This was Jack Riley's first ascent commentary since Skylab 3 in July 1973.

[ncjonson]

Nasa said that Dick Covey was capcom for a part of sts-6

[Zoomer30]

Yep good old HH has not done a launch since sts 26 think. He did the return to flight of discovery (26) not sure after that.

[ceredigio]

@Zoomer30 The last manned launches Hugh Harris did were STS-27 (DOD flight) and STS-30 (Magellan). I am not sure if he did any unmanned ones after that or if STS-30 was his last commentary ever. I like to call him 'the Jack King of the 80s' :-) The Challenger ascent guy, Steve Nesbitt did the ascent for STS-26 as well, and did not do another commentary till the launch of STS-86 in September 1997 (an Atlantis docking mission to Mir), I think he still works at the JSC public affairs office tho.

[oreoweb6]

hugh harris still does some launches. He did Ares 1-X in october

[EndeavourLaunch]

That was George Diller.

Hugh Harris hasn't done a launch in over 20 years/

[ceredigio]

@oreoweb6 Hugh Harris' last launch (that i know of) was STS-30 in May 1989 (the Magellan deploy flight). As is evident from the Spacecraft Films DVD of the mission, George Diller did some commentary in the early stages of the count for that launch. (The first actual launch sequence he did was STS-28, a DOD mission in August of '89.)

[ceredigio]

Shame Terry White spoke over the air-to-ground at wheel stop.

[ceredigio]

The ascent commentator on this launch, Jack Riley, was a PAO veteran from the Apollo days who also did the ascent for Apollo 11.

[RJY4356]

Irony- the CAPCOM relaying calls to Challenger on her first flight was the commander on her last flight- Dick Scobee.

[rollprogramhouston]

Dick was also the PLT on STS-41C during April 1984 also flown by Challenger.

[ceredigio]

And the commentator announcing her first launch - Hugh Harris - also announced her last.

[RJY4356]

Yes, that's right. I miss Hugh Harris.  He hasn't done any launches since STS-30 in 1989 and the guys they have doing them now mostly suck at it.

[ceredigio]

I believe the ascent CAPCOM is actually Dick Covey, not Dick Scobee.

[ceredigio]

Covey was also CAPCOM for Challenger's last launch. There are lots of coincidences here...

[RJY4356]

Nope, the CAPCOM here is indeed Scobee. It's his voice and I have the full tape at home where they actually show him sitting at the console during this launch and the PAO also says his name later in the launch coverage. Covey was CAPCOM for Scobee on 51-L. Yes, lots of little ironies.

[greenseaships]

@RJY4356 Did not know that. Wow. More trivia. Astronaut Pinky Nelson flew on the mission immediately before and after Challenger. I think that's the only time that ever happened.

[Neptuneaus]

Great videos 3210andLiftoff. Thanks a million...really enjoying these!

[Neptuneaus]

"SRB sep. and was that somethin'!"

[Neptuneaus]

"Challenger's underway we got a roll program!"