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A new video of the Challenger disaster has surfaced. It was recorded inside the Eastern terminal at MCO.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/ ... vered.html

This other amateur video was mentioned in the article. Interesting how these videos only came out recently. No YouTube in 1986 though.

I watched it from my front yard about 30 miles south of the launch pad.

We knew instantly it had gone bad. That smoke hung up there for hours...

A new member here (Suresh) has some very interesting knowledge about this "accident." A sad day.

miamiair wrote:A new member here (Suresh) has some very interesting knowledge about this "accident." A sad day.

Has he shared it here? If not, that's something I'd like to read.

Sad Day indeed. I was a Drill Sergeant at Ft. Knox, had my troops in a Land Nav class. We didn't do much map learning that day.

Stunning to watch.

Always fascinated by Space Shuttle Challenger videos and how they were able to basically sequence it down to :0001 on a timeframe.

Dad at the time had worked for Wyman Gordon and they had done a lot of design work for Morton Thiokol, Rockwell International, etc. etc. I remember a lot of phone calls at the home in the days before and a lot of phone calls within minutes of it exploding. I remember dad being vehemently against the launch and had been on the phone several late nights that week with Morton engineers advising against a launch.

I had gone to the dentist for a routine pediatric checkup and had gone back home that morning and we (mom and I) watched the launch and then the plan was to take me back to school. I didn't end up going back that day.

another video now on HuffPost

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 33794.html

MrGavin wrote:another video now on HuffPost

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 33794.html

Why did it take so long for these stunning videos to come out?

Wow...with sound even. That controller/talker kept his stuff together.

i have no idea why it took so long for the videos to come out. it's like ...what have you been doing with them for the past 25 years? saving them for first dates, weddings, family reunions? like.......really?

MrGavin wrote:i have no idea why it took so long for the videos to come out. it's like ...what have you been doing with them for the past 25 years? saving them for first dates, weddings, family reunions? like.......really?

disaster videos? that'd be quite the fetish!

Nosedive wrote:disaster videos? that'd be quite the fetish!

Maybe...

But in reality, compared to now, the Challenger disaster had little to show in comparison.

I thought I saw this forever ago? I guess maybe it's just now gone bit?

Lucas wrote:I thought I saw this forever ago? I guess maybe it's just now gone bit?

This one, or some of the millions of variations of it, is the one everybody and their dead grandmas have seen:



dunno why the heck the link is coming out weird

Yep, I've seen that one too, but it seems like I saw the one in the OP forever ago. Weird, but perhaps just a strange bit of deja vu!