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Why do they only serve coke in the NASA cafeteria?
Because they can't get 7up
Why do they only serve coke in the NASA cafeteria?
Because they can't get 7up
i skipped school that day for some reason, so I saw the whole thing, don't remember if I saw it live or if I got wrapped up in the post-explosion news but it was a huge story with lots of chatter and analysis, it came out later that an o-ring failed to seal properly and some fuel or something flammable leaked.I don’t think I was even alive when the challenger happened
i skipped school that day for some reason, so I saw the whole thing, don't remember if I saw it live or if I got wrapped up in the post-explosion news but it was a huge story with lots of chatter and analysis, it came out later that an o-ring failed to seal properly and some fuel or something flammable leaked.
ya, i didn't remember all the technicalities so I didn't want to sound like a bonehead.It was an o-ring seal between the sections on one of the solid fuel boosters that allowed a flame to be directed at the huge fuel tank. NASA had been warned about the joints might not seal in cold weather. There was probably less that 25% of the area in the circumference of the joint where a flame could burn a hole in the fuel tank but the leak occurred in just the wrong place. It seems like the forward speed of nearly 1500 miles per hour should have provided enough air between the booster and the tank to prevent the flame from reaching the tank but it obviously didn't.
Not necessarily. I believe one of the current theories is that the module they were in, got blown away from craft when it exploded, and they might've actually been alive for the plummet to wherever the fuck they crashed down at, or at least until they lost consciousness from the g forces of falling at ten million miles an hour.i don't think i even remember the Columbia, i'm sure i heard about it. The Challenger as a cultural moment was gigantic, everyone talked about, all with varying levels of seriousness and respect. People would joke about how they got cooked but mostly, it was a shock. It was especially sad how people on the ground cheered when it blew up, thinking it was some sort of overdrive system. People don't remember those types of things, and the last words recorded were, "oh, no" or some near equivalent. They probably didn't know what hit them really.
Some were probably not old enough to see the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding. But I thought I'd ask this question anyway.
I honestly have more vivid memories with the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding, rather than the other one.
I totally forgot the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion happened. Even though it's more recent. Not sure why, maybe I was just a little kid when the Challenger exploded. So it gave me an indelible unforgettable memory for a young mind.
Both are very tragic and shocking indeed.
while i appreciate this info, it also makes the Challenger disaster far more harrowingChallenger I would say as it was at *relatively* low altitude (70 or 80,000ft) and plenty of video footage of the tanks exploding and the SRBs careening off on their own. I remember watching it well in 1986.
-- Technically speaking the Challenger shuttle did NOT explode (in fact neither shuttle exploded at all), it broke up due to aerodynamic forces. The main H2 Hydrogen tank ruptured after the hot gases escaped near the base and all the remaining H2 ignited in the presence of Liquid O2 and that was the massive explosion on video. Fuel tank explosion, which obviously was Loss of Vehicle and end of mission. The Shuttle instantly tumbled and broke up. Crew capsule stayed intact all the way to the surface of the Atlantic where it impacted at 207mph and killed everyone from the impact. Most or all of the crew are believed to have been alive and even conscious on the 4minute trip down to the sea surface. In fact 2 of the emergency airpacks had been activated MANUALLY by hand (Judy Resnik did that...) and the amount of O2 consumed when the found the Creew capsule was consistent with crew members oxygen use for the 4mins (approx) it took to fall to ocean surface. So minimum 2 crew members were alive and possibly conscious.
Columbia was less of a shock i'd imagine to most people as by 2003 the Shuttle launches were regarded as routine and somewhat "dull" to the general public (not to me). Plus Columbia broke up (again it did not explode, it broke up as it lost hydraulics and attitude-control and tumbled at high spin rates) at extreme altitude of 200,000ft so video of the Loss of Vehicle was far less dramatic, visually.
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I saw the Challenger live on tv in HS.
The confirmation for mission control came when the pilot of one of the T38 chase planes which basically accompanied the Shuttle down to the runway, reported on the comm loops that he visually confirmed the Shuttle had broken up. THats the conversation at t=2m59secs of the first youtube video, the BBC one. The woman at 2m59s is a NASA astronaut who was working in mission control that day and she has just been told a T38 pilot reported vehicle had broken up.....that's her saying "Oh my God" on the BBC vid. Can't remember her name.Challenger was a shock because it was the first time Americans were killed in a space flight. 3 astronauts were killed in a training fire on the ground in Apollo 1. All of America's space missions had been successful other than Apollo 13 which still brought the crew back alive. The Space shuttles had been launched successfully for several years and 24 previous flights. The Challenger was also on live video.
The Columbia problem was caused on the launch but didn't happen until the re-entry where there aren't any cameras. It was pretty much know that it must have broken up on re-entry but there was little evidence other than some lights in the sky until debris was found. Nothing near as graphic as Challenger.
not a theory, it was proven when they examined the crew-module wreckage and found at least TWO of the emergency air-packs had been activated, by hand, and the used Oxygen was consistent with the amouint of time it took to impact the ocean surface. They believe Judy Resnik activated her own pack and the pack of the guy in front of her which was either the pilot or the commander.Not necessarily. I believe one of the current theories is that the module they were in, got blown away from craft when it exploded, and they might've actually been alive for the plummet to wherever the fuck they crashed down at, or at least until they lost consciousness from the g forces of falling at ten million miles an hour.
The single person who, in the subsequent investigation of the entire Columbia tragedy, received the most blame was a senior NASA or JPL manager named Linda Ham. (this is all by memory).Too young to truly know what the Challenger tragedy was like, but I've heard stories from teachers growing up. Never even really heard of the Columbia disaster; all I have a fuzzy memory of my US history teacher briefly talking about some space shuttle blowing up that week then going right into lecturing about the Challenger. Seemed like nobody gave a shit about the Columbia Space Shuttle, honestly.
What I did find rather surprising is that these incidents, while nearly 2 decades apart, could both be partially attributed to higher ups telling young concerned engineers "Lol stfu noob you ain't know shit ting will hold up fam #Trust send that mfer up to space "