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  • RIP - The great men and women of science.

  • Houston!

    We need us some band-aids!

  • there was a teacher on board..............

  • Fucking Corporate pigs are what killed them 7 people !!!!!

  • @craigsjaffe no sir.. it was the human error..  all 7 knew that could happen when they accepted the job.

  • @vatusai What do you mean? That the austronaughts knew they were going to dye? Challenger explosion was not just an accident?! O_O

  • @candy80542 if you travel into space.. with 835,958 gallons of the principle liquid propellants: hydrogen, oxygen, hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine, and nitrogen tetroxide... im sure you know something can go wrong.. and you need to be prepared for anything.

    its not like everyone is going to space nowdays.. you know.. its not cheap. now go back to that time where you cell phone has more technology than the space shuttle haha.. you can imagine what could happen :(

  • @candy80542 Dyslexia much? It's astronauts.

  • @BarryDong If you want to know, someone had told me in the past that ''Challenger'' had been exploded by the government on purpuse. That's why I asked other viewers about that in this video. So, if you don't know some things you'd better not to comment...

  • poor guys

  • The silence after the initial explosion is terrifying.

  • OMG I still remember hugging my teacher when I was going back to class from lunch when we all seen her in the hall on her kness crying and she told us a very special crew just lost there lives for man kind. GOD rest there souls!

  • @Vector32XL no

  • wow they are calm

  • @ryboy0793 Id be yelling if i saw that.

  • why are you all nagging like 4 year olders in the comments?

    Seriously!!!!!!

    Since you are here pay some respect to those who die at least!

    Pay some respect to the families of the victims!

    My father and the teacher who won the competition and was on this mission were friends..... and he was shocked when he saw this, since she was so excited... but nobody knew what was about to happen...........

    May god rest their souls in peace. At least, they died honorably.

    RIP STS-51

    

  • the shuttle has exploded. NO SHIT SHERLOCK.

  • I know this is off-track but is it just me or did people mourn in a more dignified manner back then? Even though they know what just happened to their family/friends they kept relative composure and left the scene presumably to go cry privately. And the husbands nonchalantly holding their wives -- it's endearing to me, a small silver lining on that tragic day. I can't explain it, to me it just seems like nowadays so many people make a public mess of themselves at any opportunity.

  • @bvespertine - America lost its soul after Vietnam. Once the Patriot Act was allowed , Americans lost every right given them under the Constitution. Obama can now render any person in America off the streets and hold them forever in a dungeon without any legal access. Americans have less rights than those in Communist nations.

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  • what is that @ 3:40 ?

  • @Archie8Manning Ass. Hole. Where is your compassion?

  • @Archie8Manning excuse me, please have some respect for those who died. you can say that her eyes were blue, but the whole "one blew that way, the other blew the other way" comment was very inapropriate.

  • Challenge Accepted

  • what did happened to challenger??

  • @danzdimz In a very brief explanation. Due to the launch being conducted in cold weather the rubber O - rings in the solid rocket boosters did not expand like they were supposed to. Since the O - rings did not expand the fuel in the sold rocket boosters leaked out to the flame of the engine causing the explosion. Sadly Roger Boisjoly was an engineer that was on the team that built challenger and warned NASA of this problem. Boisjoly was ignored and the explosion occurred. .....

  • @danzdimz In a very brief explanation. Due to the launch being conducted in cold weather the rubber O - rings in the solid rocket boosters did not expand like they were supposed to. Since the O - rings did not expand the fuel in the solid rocket boosters leaked out to the flame of the engine causing the explosion. Sadly Roger Boisjoly was an engineer that was on the team that built challenger and warned NASA of this problem. Boisjoly was ignored and the explosion occurred. .....

  • Christa Mcauliff: "Hey what's this button do?" *press*

    Scobee: "DONT PRESS THAT!!!!!"

    KABOOOOOOM!!!

  • @L0rdsalmence

    lolumadthatyourcountrydoesnotk­nowshitaboutspace?

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  • @TecDiver05 I was talking about the Russians..... your truly are retarded.

  • @Reflazion You are correct, I do feel quite stupid. My apologies, complete lack of basic reading skills.

  • Proof that the moon landing was faked and Amerikkkans cannot build spacecraft. Russia and China- true space powers

  • @L0rdsalamence >implying one screw-up means that an entire group of people can't do anything

  • @Trogdorwillrise ur a faget

  • SPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCC OHH SHIT !!!!

  • I cannot believe the callous nature of people who have never seen this live, or lived through 9/11.

    Brave people, to brave the ride, knowing the risk....

    They died.

    A note in history, to the people a mystery.

    Again, they braved the Challenge....

    greydog0417@yahoo.com

  • .... I don't care what anyone tries to say.

    This is completely sobering, just the few moments... and tears just spring to the eyes, the cold sorrow as the crew passes.

    And for those thinking there's no emotion, its hard to give a after-action report in complete sobs.

  • their so calm!!!! i would be like holy shit and crying

  • 2:53 :"We have a report...that the vehicle has exploded".....NO REALLY!

    2:50 :"We are checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done at this point"....unless you have a time machine...NOTHING! woow NASA wow...

  • @nikkiago You do realize they dont have a tv in front of them right? They are looking at a computer screen full of numbers, they don't actually have eyes on the machine, they would have just seen a sudden fluctuation in ratings and wonder why. They didn't just instantly know it went boom

  • @nikkiago your arrogance is like spitting in the face of every crew member who died.

  • @RenardWarrior how?

  • sory for my english.

  • anyone believe someone from challenger get in water alive?

  • @murderz0r The impact of the shuttle to the water at that speed would not let anyone survive, especially if the cabin was immediately depressurized.

  • @murderz0r the cabbin would have depressurized nocking them all unconsisous, in the thin atmospheric air they probally all died from suffication and if they surrivied they would have all died on impact with water

  • @coolguy20000000 Sadly, the wreckage recovered of the crew compartment did not show signs of depressurization. The Mid-Deck floor was not buckled; it was intact. God only knows what it must have been like.

  • 1:16 - 1:29 So sad god bless theme

  • I remember seeing this on the news, but I didn't really care

  • @FatherPatOphelia what was your age when it happened?

  • some people dont know this but John F. Kennedy placed bags of jelly beans in there cabins as a surprise.

  • My favourite bit is at @1:21 !

  • What abeautiful thing to see

  • A CHALLENGER APPEA- oh wait...

  • @dogboy0912 I lol'd, Im such a terrible person DX

    Seriously though this was a terrible thing to happen.

  • @imnotparanoid68 Yes this was terrible, but as the quote goes "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

    George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

  • He sounded quite stoic for something so severe, but then I guess either the shock of it happening or knowing he had countless people watching and had to keep his cool and maintain professionalism for everyone else's sake. Not that I would have cared more about a professional bearing and thought less of him if he HAD been more emotional in the heat of the moment.

  • @Lavenderrose73 When you watch the footage of the control room they are the same way, I think the raw shock of seeing it happen stunned them.

  • @CrashB111 Yes, that's understandable. Naturally they didn't want to believe so quickly that those people just lost their lives before everyone's eyes.

  • @Lavenderrose73 they weren't watching the tape, they were watching the sensors and monitoring the technical feedback from the spaceships trajectory.

  • @common380 Well that brings things into a new light. Sure makes Torker24's comment make no sense at all!

  • LMFAO 2:01 ahahahah...REALLY???

  • why is he so comm its like that was suppose to happen

  • what was that at 3.43 ??? Something flew across the bottom half of the screen!!

  • @KingKennyRules I think it was a seagull gliding by, closer to the camera

  • Sad day in history. I was 11 years old and didn't realize this world was full of tragedies until now.

  • I coordinated a case study for my MBA crisis management class, 15 years later. What I can recall from this case is that there was a signifcant difference in NASA culture from the Apollo generation to the Space Shuttle era. Frankly, it was more highly regarded almost religious dedication to detail and planning. By the time, the Shuttle came around there were too many Ivy League managers who were more concerned with business and selecting the lowest bidder which contributed to this disaster.

  • My dad and I were home watching this, I was 10 years old. I remember distinctly saying "Dad something isn't right, look!" and I touched the tv and the explosion happened. I totally freaked out.

  • Can't imagine what it must have been like in the control room, absolute horror for one... very hectic. Even worse for the families watching proudly as their loved ones blast into space... only to watch them die before their eyes. Technology has improved so much in the last few decades, the space shuttle is a technological marvel and I'm sad it's retiring but it really is quite antiquated by todays standards. Would be interesting to see what could be made today is NASA had the budget it once had.

  • the people were alive...until they hit the ocean, thats what i heard, sad.

  • @applesause1998 its true too it didnt expolde in the sence of the word it caught fire and the shuttle disingaged and flew at mach 2 speeds bellie up into the wind ripping it to shreds the crew was alive untill they hit the water crushing the cabbin and everything in side

  • wut year wuz this

  • @samurai4950 Jan 28,1986

  • I was 26 years old when this happened. I was sitting in an Emery Air Freight delivery van, eating lunch at a McDonald's a little before noon... I recall the horror at hearing the people inside the restaurant saying to one another "Did you hear about the space shuttle? It just blew up!" I immediately recalled feeling the same way, over 2 decades earlier, when I watched the bulletins on television saying that the president had been shot.

  • @cambridge1111 I was 16,home from school sick,watching the price is right,when they cut into it and announced it exploded,I called my mom @ work and told her she was like are you sure?I said yes it blew up,the teacher is dead

  • MAJOR MALFUNCTION II F*CK'N EXPLODED

  • Very eerie seeing the debri hit the water...

  • I was born in 82' so i was only 4 when this happened. And I don't want to sound horrible or mean, but I'm glad I was too young to remember this, cause I wouldn't want too....

  • My mother said when she saw this live in school her very first thought was that it had 'blasted into hyperspace' but then realised a split second later it exploded.

  • It's very sad all this was due to a frozen O-ring, can you imagine ?

    Richard Feyman did not agree with the "whoops oh well" conclusion of so called experts. R.I.P.

  • major malfunction is a bit of an understatement..

  • The smoke trails say, "Y?"

  • So sad... To think we heard a man's voice in a radio transmission seconds before he is to die.

  • wow ): i remember one of the elementary teacher from my old school was part of the crew ): RIP

  • Scary stuff 

  • "Obviously a major malfunction".....ya think?

    

  • very very sad. =(

  • OH THE HUMANITY!

  • Houston, we have a problem.

  • @Kaioshoryuken Go to hell you fucking cunt

  • @Kaioshoryuken Actually, what he said was "Houston, we've had a problem."

  • @fuzzknot Yes, but in the Apollo 13 movie, they changed it. Pop culture thing.

  • It doesn't explode...

  • @tlages ok so at 1:22 it just happily flies along?

  • Der letzte Funkspruch vor der Explosion:

    Alles okay, wir lassen jetzt mal die Frau ans Steuer

  • am i the only one that had their stomach drop when they saw it exlpode? like those peoople were probably so excited to be going into space .. and then it explodes. how tragic !!</3

  • "obviously a major malfunction"

  • that was one of the most terrible and sad things i have ever seen. 2nd to 9/11

  • Thats because the announcer is not an announcer. He was a control specialist inside the building monitoring the flight. Think people. Think.

  • Uh, people died here. Just show some respect and don't play the name calling game! It's for kindergarteners!

  • the video stalled when it started to explode

  • @daredevil49937 Please, PLEASE tell me you're not a conspiracy fuckjob and that you think this was faked?

  • @ryanmshepard92 no, what makes u think that? the page wasnt loading

  • @daredevil49937 Oh, I'm just so used to hearing conspiracy theorists say crazy shit like "If you turn your head slightly to the left and squint your eyes a little, you can see that a missile hit the space shuttle and that the whole space program is a fake." Sorry for misjudging you. All these years on the Internet has all but destroyed my faith in humanity.

  • @ryanmshepard92 its ok i knew this is real

  • look at 1:05 it shouldent be smoking so much like that.

  • at 3:17 is that a bird ?

  • I think what I found to be the most horrifying details is the fact that many schoolchildren were watching this event nationwide, including Christa McAuliffe's own students. That's just horrible.

    I myself was only a few months old when this happened, but my mother tells me she was awake and watching it live when it happened. She said she couldn't grasp what had happened at first, but became hysterical as it sunk in and rushed to call my grandmother to see if she'd seen it too.

  • @TheShawnyoda Was that really necessary? 

  • @TheShawnyoda And yet it interested you enough to provoke this weak trolling attempt. Stay classy, douchebag.

  • @TheShawnyoda you shut up and go kill you in a jail

  • @lecool122 wtf????

  • @TheShawnyoda @slightlyoutofreach01

    TheShawnyoda>> He is not a bitch because he tell us a story so stop being angry on things like that

  • @lecool122 pussy

  • @slightlyoutofreach01 i remember the Columbia disaster. I was 8 when it happened. My parents were watching it on the news and I somewhat had a clue what was happening to it.

  • I guess the people aren't excited anymore.

  • keep in mind that the guy speaking could be heard on the loudspeakers outside

  • starting at 1:12 you can see how the leak in the SRB o-ring seal was causing the thrust to shift off axis and the main engines gimbaling to maintain control. Surreal.

  • "we have a report that challenger has exploded" you think?

  • @silvammafan the more better "You think" moment was the "Obviously a malfunction." remark,

  • im sorry if i sound stupid but what sparked the explosion?

  • @rabidsquirrelfur a bad o-ring it caused a fuel leak and ignited followed the leak into the fuel tank

  • so sad...

  • Why are there 17 dislikes WTF

  • WOW! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR RAW FOOTAGE!!!

  • Thumbs up if u think they were calm

  • did they die?

  • @scopedandshot Yes... 

  • @scopedandshot all but chuck he was the only surviver

  • I know hes supposed to stay calm. Its funny though hows he's just all normal like well it exploded lol

  • What is the guy supposed to do? He has to stay calm

    

  • what sucks is the engineers told them NOT to go, but mission control gave them the ok. Imbeciles. You work at NASA. You are launching ROCKETS. You need to abort the mission when an engineer even SNEEZES the wrong way.

  • "Obviously a major malfunction."

    No... really?

  • @torker24 that's why people say obviously before making an obvious statement, so that people like you can't say "no... really?". All you said in detraction of the reporters statement was "obviously that is obvious". Which makes your statement redundant and stupid.

  • @MasteroChieftan Ok. Terribly sorry.

  • this is Why we dont go to the moon when Chuck norris go's on his Dayly Flight.

  • SPACE! WE'RE GOING TO SPAAAACC-*boom*

    aww.

    

  • That's weird. The announcer didn't seem to have any reaction when the explosion happened.

  • @FlamingBat they couldn't make a reaction since this was broadcast live all over the world and 1st-8th graders saw this happen

  • @FlamingBat DU-NU-NUUUUUUUU!

  • @FlamingBat what can you say to that. I mean really.

  • @Mjbrooks194 “One minute, fifteen seconds. Velocity 2900 feet per

    second, altitude 9 nautical miles, down-range distance 7 nautical miles,” hardly seems like an appropriate response to seeing a shuttle blow up.

  • @FlamingBat I'm sure they were all thinking that they should have listened to the engineers of the SRBS that launch. Your brain basically probably goes into a mode of panic must be professional

  • @FlamingBat He didn't know it happened until he saw the readings and someone told him.

  • @th3sp0rk Okay. I understand now.

  • @FlamingBat The dispatcher was so calm because he had no idea the Challenger had exploded. Nasa didn't have a live feed of the launch, they were getting all of their information from diagnostics aboard the rocket. I'm assuming from his end it went kind of like "Oh shit the numbers stopped. Malfunction dudes" when the spaceship had exploded.

  • @xCat5782x That makes more sense.

  • @FlamingBat Hmm. I noticed that too. HMMMM!!

  • @Bmunch15 hmmmm hummmmm mmmmmm ummmmmm mmmm hmmmm hummmm huuuuuuu -.-

  • @FlamingBat its because hes not watching the shuttle. hes just reading off flight data. he knew something was wrong when the data wasnt being retrieved anymore

  • @FlamingBat they probably edited out the part when he said 'HOLY FUCKIN SHIT!'

  • @blinkboy2008 Did he really?

  • @FlamingBat just like if they were expecting it...

  • A lot of people were watching this. The man speaking works for NASA and it is his job is to stay level and relay up-to-date information about the launch (be it successful or a completely unexpected tragedy) He needs to stay calm. NASA isn't going to want someone at mission control who acts like an announcer at a football game. The news and media will take over when it comes to emotion. Also keep in mind they really had no idea what happened at first.

  • @FlamingBat Its because he was watching a computer screen with numbers... the numbers were messed up, so his reaction is pretty understandable.

  • @RCT3Mitchell And that's confirmed with later conversation in video, thx

  • @FlamingBat i am guessing he had to keep his professional demeanor but yeah id be like WTF if i saw that

  • @FlamingBat the reaction was live, heart-breaking and so sudden. i would think it takes a bit to regroup on the situation.

  • @FlamingBat Because they were so used to the scripted takeoff. The idea of an explosion AFTER the vehicle had left the launch pad was simply unimaginable. If you look at the overall flight history before and after this tragedy you will see that this event was in the lower percentile of chance.

  • @FlamingBat that's because he wasn't looking at the live video pictures at that moment, he was looking at his instruments so that he could read off the necessary information about speed and distance.

  • 3:18 and 3:42 Sure seems to fly by fast! Especially at 3:42.

  • 2:05 - "Obviously a major malfunction" - You don't say?

  • what was that at 3:43??? 

  • @JRDMFilms 14 year old here, ashamed that I live in this time period, and some advice, use perfect or close to perfect grammar so the trolls don't just argue with that. "Just becaus you didn't grow up like this doesn't let you piss us"

  • how would you guys feel if you were on Challenger dickniggers

  • @roycoolio2 not to much right now seeing as i would be dead. but they say that at least 2-3 of the astronauts were alive as the peices of the shuttle rained back down to earth

  • "obviously the vehicle malfunctioned..."

  • @techymayan I know right? I mean obviously it malfunctioned, it blew up! Why does Houston always state the obvious? X] lol