New Video Of Shuttle Challenger Explosion Disaster Found Never Before Seen

The space shuttle Challenger explosion, video never seen before until February 2010. This is the kind of video treasure that appears seemingly out of nowhere sometimes. This is a home video shot by Corydon, Kentucky optometrist Jack R. Moss at his winter home in Winter Haven, Florida on January 28, 1986. The occasion was the launch of spcae shuttle Challenger with Teacher-In-Space Christa McAuliffe.

73 seconds later, Challenger exploded, killing all seven astronauts onboard, including McAuliffe.

Moss kept the video. Years later, he met Marc Wessels, executive director of the Space Exploration Archive, a non-profit, educational organization in Louisville.

Moss passed away from cancer at the age of 88 last year. Wessels decided to release the video to the public domain on the anniversary of the tragedy this year.

As told by the Louisville courier-Journal:


On a chilly January morning 24 years ago, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration the explosion of the shuttle Challenger.

In the videotape, a stream of white smoke behind the climbing shuttle shoots into view but Moss, his wife and a neighbor noticed immediately that something was amiss when the channel separated into two streams.

Thats trouble of some kind, Moss can be heard saying. That didnt look right.

Moments later, someone is heard telling Moss that the Challenger had blown up.

It exploded? Moss asks.

The four-minute film, shot at Moss second home in Winter Haven, Fla., might have remained stuffed away in a basement box, lost among the many 8-millimeter tapes he filmed of his family over the years. But shortly before the 88-year-old Moss died in December, he donated the tape to the Space Exploration Archive, a non-profit, educational organization in Louisville.


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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100129/NEWS02/1290397/1008/NEWS01/La...

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[pritchardjm1]

your fucking right it is mang!

[KJT922010T]

my dad saw it he's said "Oh Shit" he knew what happened right away

[The2Coolest2]

Thats sad :(

[DeLaSalleSoccer]

They've got trouble of sum kind, George!!!

[optoomal2]

I did my science project about the challenger

[miniclipcental]

i dont even know wat im looking AT!

[sCeNeMuTt]

@kiddscurry it's cool to see innocent teachers lose their lives?

[tealmarlin]

its weird to see this is 1986, other then that car, seems like it was taken yesterday, I was 3 then.

[kiddscurry]

Thats was CooL v!!!!!

[BinoBanana]

they got trouble, somekind! george?