25 Years After: NASA Remembers Disaster of Space Shuttle Challenger

History | 207204 hits | Jan 28 6:29 am | Posted by: Scape

NASA's Challenger space shuttle disaster is being remembered this year on its 25th anniversary. The spacecraft Challenger broke apart on Jan. 28, 1986 just 73 seconds after liftoff due to a booster engine failure, taking all the seven crew members lives.

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by Strutz
Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:03 am
Wow. I can't believe it's been 25 years... I remember this so well.
by PublicAnimalNo9
Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:35 am
"Strutz" said
Wow. I can't believe it's been 25 years... I remember this so well.

Oh for sure. That image is indelibly marked on my brain.
by Scape
Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:29 pm
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I remember the announcement on my schools PA and some kid says 'So?'. I couldn't help but feel a little repulsed by their jaded response. Later on there was audio being leaked that reportedly was of the cockpit recorder and the screams of the crew as they would have survived the disintegration in the reinforced cockpit but the without power it was quickly outed as a fraud. Still, they would have survived the initial event only to lose consciousness moments after with no means of maintaining air pressure.

The way people react to stress of unusual situations is very illuminating.

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