30th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy

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wow 30 years already, i remember this like it was yesterday:(:(

On January 28, 1986, the American shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission. The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire who had been selected to join the mission and teach lessons from space to schoolchildren around the country. It was later determined that two rubber O-rings, which had been designed to separate the sections of the rocket booster, had failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch. The tragedy and its aftermath received extensive media coverage and prompted NASA to temporarily suspend all shuttle missions.
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A tragedy that could have easily been avoided.

These people however were everything that is right with humanity, true role models.

RIP.
 
I was in the dentist listening to the launch on the radio, as the dentist operated.
I can remember it vividly and the blow it was at the time, sad loss of brave people.
 
When anyone asks me if I would go into space and I ponder on it, I think to myself that I would have to accept that I'm going to die before agreeing to go. The risk in my mind is that great.

I also imagine it would take every ounce of my strength to gain the courage to actually do it.

That is what these people did and they faced an horrific outcome.

In perspective of some events, the amount of lives lost is diminutive but because we can all relate to that summoning of guts and daring. How much they sacrificed and how brave you have to be; it truly is traumatic for a kind.

A hard, saddening lesson with a severe price for humanity.

RIP
 
Even when I'm watching launches on TV or even in film, I can feel my nerves going. God knows what it must feel like to do it for real.

I only have to hear a noise on a plane and I think somethings gone wrong. On a space shuttle, I think I would be a nervous gibbering wreck.
 
Very much remember the day.

At boarding school at the time, so there was a crowd of us around the television. For me the news reel holds the same profound image as the 911's.

For better or for worst, it held us back. Very sad all the same.
 
I remember this like it was yesterday. Was at work and people came in calmly and said "the space shuttle has just blown up according to the radio". One of those life events.
 
I've been listening to "What do you care what other people think?" by Richard Feynman recently as I walk to and from work, there's a large portion of that book about the presidential commission and the ways that there were huge differences between what management stated the failure rate to be (1:100,000) and the engineers (1:100).
 
Wikipedia said:
The last track on the album was originally scheduled to include a saxophone part recorded by astronaut Ron McNair on the Space Shuttle Challenger, making it the first piece of music to be recorded in outer space, but on 28 January 1986, 73 seconds after lift-off, the shuttle disintegrated and the entire Challenger crew were killed. The track was dedicated to McNair and the other astronauts on board Challenger. On the album the saxophone part is played by saxophonist Pierre Gossez.
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RIP to them all.
 
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