Challenger disaster 30 years ago

[DD Brock]

The thing is that the launch was at about 2.30am local time, so I was asleep at the time, and well after the morning newspaper had been printed. By not hearing or seeing any news during the day, it was something like 16 hours after the accident before I knew anything about it.

My memory of it was a friend who worked at Boeing developing the stealth technology calling me saying, "The Shuttle just blew up right after launch." I said, "Oh no, we lost the teacher." He responded with, "Teacher hell, we lost the Shuttle," to which I said, "Well that's a difference between us; I grieve first for the human loss and you grieve for the material loss." Yes, my first thought was of the children in classrooms watching as their brave roll model gave her life for exploration and education. And the bloodthirsty media kept showing the shocked disbelief of her parents as it turned to realization and horror. What a terrible day that was.

The bloodthirsty media STILL keeps showing the reaction of her parents. Of all the horrible moments of that day, I think that one could have remained a private one. Alas, if it bleeds it leads.

[raven]

I wasn't alive at the time, but I fairly recently saw both some home video of Christa McAuliffe's backup watching the launch and the live CNN coverage of the launch and, when it happened, the disaster.
My first reaction besides sorrow and horror was, 'So, this is what a time traveller feels'.

[tradosaurus]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astro-nots who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

[DD Brock]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astronauts who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

It's ridiculous and discussion of it has no place here. Show a little respect.

[bknight]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astronauts who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

Total BS, troll

[raven]

People also claim they've seen Elvis alive.
It's just a hunka, hunka burning shit! 

[frenat]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astronauts who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

Whoopee.  They found some people who look a little similar but not close enough for people that really look to think they are the same.  I guess we know which camp you're in.

[LunarOrbit]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astronauts who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

Whoopee.  They found some people who look a little similar but not close enough for people that really look to think they are the same.  I guess we know which camp you're in.

It's not just some people that look similar. In some cases, those people are brothers of the astronauts. It's one of the stupidest conspiracy theories I've ever heard of, and tradosaurus should be ashamed of himself for posting it in this thread.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/challenger.asp

[gillianren]

What is this "shame"?

[ka9q]

What is this "shame"?

Something I think politicians and conspiracy theorists must be genetically incapable of.

[Peter B]

What is your opinion on the claim that the shuttle astronauts who "died" have been found living today?

https://youtu.be/4HQSptqjp60

As Snopes points out, those people alive today all have verifiable pasts which go back to before the Challenger accident. In addition, why would NASA let these people live under the same surnames and in some cases even the same name (for example Judith Resnik) after they've supposedly died in the Challenger accident. It's not just that the claim is verifiably untrue, it doesn't even make sense.

[gillianren]

Right, which makes it so different from everything else he believes.

[raven]

As Snopes points out, those people alive today all have verifiable pasts which go back to before the Challenger accident. In addition, why would NASA let these people live under the same surnames and in some cases even the same name (for example Judith Resnik) after they've supposedly died in the Challenger accident. It's not just that the claim is verifiably untrue, it doesn't even make sense.

The Witness Protection Program does a better job than that! Besides, this claim conflicts with the claim they were killed to keep the whole 'no stars' idea alive. Both claims are bogus, but it just shows how contradictory conspiracy theories tend to be, as if more evidence was needed!

[twik]

The most surreal parts for me were the commentator's routine recitation of altitude and speed just after the breakup, and later the audible background whine in the audio as no one spoke for a long time.

Yes, I remember that. I think I just saw a recording, but I felt like yelling "Don't you see it isn't there any more?"

[gillianren]

No, they didn't.  They didn't have live video, just telemetry.