The last video of the shuttle Challenger astronauts, who worked for the period between 1983-1986 in 10 space missions, the last of which was the STS-51-L flight, which was intended to track Halley's comet, but it exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all seven crew members.

Whole reason it happened was cause NASA wouldn’t listen to the engineers. They said that the night before was too cold, and some parts might not work properly. Well they were right, an O-ring was affected, leaving literally the tiniest gap imagineable, which fuel leaked into/out of, igniting, and killing everyone on board.

I got to see the pieces of the shuttle and the belongings of the crew when I visited NASA space center in Orlando

everybody in our class watched this in middle school. this is one of many memories I'll never forget.

iirc nationwide this was a huge broadcasted launch.

So sad to study astrophysics your entire life working on rocket science just to be blown up in a rocket ship without ever making it to space.

Me in third grade:

“What does NASA stand for?

Need Another Seven Astronauts!”

I thought it was funny at the time.

Woah this is really cool man, nice find!

I watched this unfold in primary school, was wtf! Teacher did not know what to do.

“Obviously a mayor malfunction”… that must be one of the top understatements of the past century

Another case of US Hubris... rather risk lives than pride. Amazing

If you sleuth deep enough you'll know they're all actually not dead.

In hindsight, the classic black and white American Space Shuttle seemed to be, and will be remembered as one of the most dangerous forms of space travel ever made.

The most and worst of all of NASA accidents came from their non reliability.

If you asked me to go to space prior to SpaceX I would say “take the Soyuz”

Snapshots:

• archive.org

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

CNN😂👌 cgi

Fuck em

They are all alive and well working in universities. Most of them have changed names or taken relative names. Look it up. NASA is a racket. Space travel isn't possible. We live in a close system. They made trillions. This story is one that paid off.