1 of 6 - Shuttle Challenger - CBS News

-From videotape I recorded on Jan. 28, 1986, CBS News Special Report with Dan Rather
-Coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. (WNEV - SE7EN, Boston)
-Excerpts in six parts.
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-Dan Rather - Shuttle model demonstration
-Event videotape
-Recovery chopper video

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• Shuttle
• Challenger
• Disaster
• Explosion
• 1986
• CBS
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[stfunoob1]

I wonder if they ever found any sign of the bodies or anything o.O

[MSTS1]

I believe so; the crew compartment broke away as a unit, intact.

[mediadude08]

My heart goes out to the victims' families.

[ewd76]

God bless Dan Rather. Without him, we wouldn't know how evil George W Bush is.

[darthfurious80]

What a terrible day that was. I was only five, but I remember seeing the news report on TV at my grandparents house. What has stuck with me the most since that day was seeing the explosion and the SRBs still thrusting and twisting and burning...

[davidincal1969]

@ewd76 Yes... and without Dan Rather, we would have known that Microsft Word was used during the Vietnam era. Why inject your politics into a national tragedy was apolitical and took place before he was even president?

[burkdogg21]

@stfunoob1 they did find the crew cabin, and they think they crew lived to the time it hit the water. there were switches that had been turned on after the explosion.

[aimhigh59]

@ideastoday It was the pilot chute from the frustrum. Nose cap blows off. Pilot chute comes out. Frustrum blows off releasing the 3 main chutes until spash down.

[indyfan22k]

@simpsonsfan89

a cheesy TV movie? a documentary ? or a movie shown in the Theatres ? well I guess we won't see one.

[ideastoday]

@planetcheck - What was attached to the parachute (obviously) was part of the SRB.

[ideastoday]

@stfunoob1 - Yes, they did find human remains. NASA also discovered that several of the crew members had manually turned on their emergency oxygen supplies after the breakup of the shuttle, which means some or all of them survived the explosion. The likelihood is that they died when the crew compartment slammed into the ocean.

[Puff29646]

THIS PIECE OF "JUNK" HAS KILLED 14 PEOPLE SO FAR!!! WHERE IS THE "ESCAPE SYSTEM" NASA? OH, I FORGOT THEY HAVE A POLE THEY CAN SLIDE DOWN @ 17,500MPH! I CAN'T BELIEVE NASA SOLD THIS "JUNK" TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! GOES TO SHOW HOW "IGNORANT AND COMPLACENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BECOME! WHAT DO OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS? "THEY KNEW THE RISKS." CERTAIN RISKS WOULD NEVER HAD BEEN TAKEN BY "OUR ASTRONAUTS" HAD THEY AN "ESCAPE SYSTEM!"

[Puff29646]

@planetcheck OMG! YEAH, AND MARTIANS HAVE INVADED!!! ABSURD!!!

[planetcheck]

@outofthegreenmist No videotape exists today of the CBS footage showing the gigantic parachute landing in the ocean with Rathers commenting on it live.

It would be on youtube if any videotape survived.

NASA ordered CBS to lock the videotape up.

No VHS home recording has ever surfaced.

Many believe the crew are alive today and in hiding.

Only NASA knows.