REAGAN TRIBUTE TO THE CHALLENGER 7

Here is the latest piece of my " blue period "...It features old 8mm footage of the then new Challenger making its maiden departure from Edwards AFB...speech by President Reagan..watch for the cameo by the always stunning Nancy...priceless!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• astronauts
• challenger
• space
• shuttle
• president
• reagan

[raymond1277]

With all due respect, are you serious? You are actually blaming the President for Challenger 7 even though he had NOTHING to do with the launch whatsoever!?!? I was in second grade also when I saw this tragedy unfold. I lived in Kendall, South Miami, and the principle of my school at the time knew the teacher personally. Yes, the teachers were dumbfonded. The kids were clueless, but when the dust settled, no one blamed politics. It was an engineering failure. Thats why heads rolled at NASA.

[biongnoila]

The COUNTRY is not like that anymore.....

[deniswww4www]

CooL

[raymond1277]

Pressure or no pressure, we need to put blame where it truly belongs. NASA was, is, and will always be solely responsible for the well-being of our astronauts. NASA has always felt pressure from every administration, including the current one, to produce results. Billions of dollars is poured into space exploration every year. The astronauts knew the risks going into the program, but they also put faith in the engineers at NASA to do their job right. And they failed.

[Stantzs]

The administration pressured NASA to stop delay's...

But it is easy to forget that we are basically in the dark ages of space exploration, 100 years from now people will look back on Apollo, the ISS and the shuttle fleet and wonder how anyone could survive in those things at all.

[IMandEM]

omg soo sad i was crying

[mcsrphone]

My husband still works at KSC. The whole disaster was a result of Reagan wanting to talk to Christie McAuliffe as part of his State of the Union address. Teacher in space, Ronnie being show-y, etc... There was ice on the tank, in Florida, no less. O-ring? Yep. But try bad politics for a better reason. I saw this disaster live with my whole 2nd grade class. Our teachers did not know what to do.

[vvintage128]

un saint homme!

god bless them all damned!!

[b00bsmith]

at least they launched it before raygun's state of the union address and tried to get the "ronny cares about education" photo-op. dumbasses. maybe next time they'll listen to the engineers instead of politicians.

[michaeld5]

Beethoven....beautiful.