From Tuesday, January 28th 1986 The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion from the E-207 camera. The explosion took place 73 seconds into Challengers 10th flight at 11:39:13 A.M EST
The STS-51-L Crew:
Commander:Francis R. Scobee
Pilot:Michael J. Smith
Mission Specialist:Ellison S. Onizuka
Mission Specialist:Judith A. Resnik
Mission Specialist:Ronald E. McNair
Payload Specialist:Gregory B.Jarvis
Payload Specialist: Christa McAuliffe
(Teacher in Space)
(Footage is courtesy of shuttlevideo Y.T channel)
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Why in all the videos we watch of this tragedy always show the rocket boosters instead of trying to see where is the capsule and where it going to land.
From this camera angle you can see for how long hot propellant exhaust was exiting via the seam in the starboard SRB. That hot gas was firing against the side of the external fuel tank for some time before that part of the tank finally got too hot and it exploded.
Even now I don't feel comfortable with anything running at 104%.
Larry Malloy was responsible.
Why they didn't turn off engine?
FAKE
The crew cabin fell apart with the crew still alive in it, the impact on the ocean is what killed them. Nobody thought of an ejection system or parachutes?
The documentary was right. It resealed and then the strong winds open it back up again.
NASA has but has to work hard and very serious about a better way to save astronauts so this will never happen again!😞
I still don't understand how the SRBs didn't explode and the orbiter broke apart. 😫
RIP Dick Scobee 1939-1986
RIP Michael J Smith 1945-1986
RIP Ellison Onizuka 1946-1986
RIP Judith Resnik 1949-1986
RIP Ronald McNair 1950-1986
RIP Gregory Jarvis 1944-1986
RIP Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986
Today, I was doing a 51l in roblox rp, I did not think it would really blow up nether my friends, I was watching it like this and it blew apart in mid air. It was insane
You can tell right when the tank starts leaking hydrogen. The color of the exhaust changes.
It's interesting for me. Could the astronauts be saved if the burn through of the booster would have been noticed before the explosion? Could the Mission Control center detach the boosters or the spaceship from fuel tank at that moment and then land it successfully?
This angle shows the fire…..sad
I set the video speed to 0.25 times and the break up is still so fast. Can’t see much of anything.
Seems unreal that someone didn't see this and take action. But, maybe they didn't see it real time…dont know. Or was there anything that could even have been done anyway.
One reason they only found fragments of the right wing while the left wing came out of the cloud completely intact : The RH SRB broke free at the lower attach point, swung out and hit the right wing. Can really see how the plume seems to "rotate" away from the tank right before the breakup.
You can even see a parachute riped open
Supposedly, this camera angle was not part of the live TV cameras available to Mission Control during the launch.
If it was, flight controllers would have seen the O-Rings being burned through and would have ordered Challenger's astronauts to separate the orbiter from the external tank/solid rocket boosters and make an emergency landing or ditching in the ocean….something the astronauts probably would have survived.
Imagine you're the cameraman looking at this, knowing there isn't a thing you can do.
The cameramen that shot these moments, they did incredible jobs that day, with all that heat of the moment, pressure situation styled workload in front of them, and still keep it together…..all respect to the. R.I.P. Challenger crew. Good video
Amazing coverage and quality for 30 years ago. RIP Challenger
This is the one view that you hardly ever see. The one that shows the actual burn through of the SRB O-rings.