Twenty Years Ago Today... |
Twenty Years Ago Today... |
Jan 28 2006, 09:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
...the Challenger distaster occurred.
I was at work, we heard the news and rushed upstairs to the Administrative Hearing Room and switched on the TV. There were replays of the explosion, and I fully expected the Shuttle to pop out of the fireball and glide to Earth. It didn't, and we grew up a bit more that day. A moment of silence, please. --Bill http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missio...ssion-51-l.html -------------------- |
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Jan 29 2006, 06:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
QUOTE NASA documnetary detailing the events surrounding the loss of OV-099 Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after the launch of the 25th flight of the Space Transportation System, Mission STS-51L, on 28 January, 1986, and the subesquent investigation into the loss of the vehicle and its crew of seven. The investigation showed that the Solid Rocket Booster field joints were of an insufficiently fault-tolerant design and. when launched at below-normal temperatures, leaked hot exhaust gasses on ignition leading to a breach in the external tank and destruction of the orbiter. http://ia300139.us.archive.org/1/items/Cha...ation_256kb.mp4 (112 MB MP4) http://ia300139.us.archive.org/1/items/Cha...vestigation.mpg ( 1,2GB MPEG2) -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jan 29 2006, 06:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
20 YEARS AFTER CHALLENGER
------------------------- On a bitterly cold January morning 20 years ago Saturday, space shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew made a fateful voyage into history. Spaceflight Now marks the anniversary with a comprehensive timeline of the events and video of that day. http://spaceflightnow.com/challenger/timeline/ See video from Saturday's memorial service: http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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