1986: CNN's coverage of the Challenger explosion

From the CNN archive: Go behind the scenes and watch how CNN covered the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. For more CNN videos, visit our site at www.cnn.com/video/

[@Chap2960]

The engineers warned them not to launch. They did anyways. Whoever approved and authorized the launch knew the risks and sent them anyways. Bad move.

[@LuxSmash]

Probably in prison right now

[@Chap2960]

@@LuxSmash They should be if not already. Risks have consequences.

[@ifoster165]

@@stevemaviver357 omg horrible

[@Cory_Springer]

The night before, one of those engineers told his wife "the Challenger is going to explode"

[@cybercityoedo808]

Rumors that the Reagan Administration pushed NASA to rush the launch so Ronald Reagan could talk about it in his State of the Union address.

[@organicheals]

"After more delays than NASA cares to count"...that kind of attitude is what led to this disaster.

[@AhYes-it3mr]

And just after he said that... 😭😭😭

[@alexiscoutinho8078]

@@AhYes-it3mr Cursed

[@scrubs3050]

Yikes

[@SM-pr1qt]

I heard that right at the start and thought the same thing. Arrogant bastard!

[@moulehumide7342]

Bad managers.

[@richardcochrane1966]

"Obviously a major malfunction" - Possibly the greatest understatement in the history of mankind!

[@Kanru-5829]

I heard (and can not confirm) that said person didn’t have any view of the broadcast at all

[@masamune2984]

True, but they are CLEARLY, obviously just trying to present the facts, and keep the calm, in whatever way they can. What are they supposed to say at that point?

[@user-wj7sr9xe6v]

😂

[@D-Boss-1958]

Ya think?

[@wei2190sd]

@@masamune2984well what about saying something like ”seems like it just exploded”

[@CinemaDemocratica]

If you're a broadcaster at this moment you have to be sure -- you can't be the person out in front of a false report -- and that pressure must have been extraordinary in this case.

[@cheowesley860]

Rest in peace to the seven souls we lost 33 years ago today. We will never forget you.

[@ssssjxd]

Well said mate 🥀

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen knock it off you fucking tool!

[@breakplateseatsteaks5107]

@Markus Allen You tried to be funny. You failed. Don't worry comedy ain't for everyone just ask Brendan Schaub.

[@doccu]

@@TrailofTruth yep, no one dies in that accident

[@F5Storm1]

They are heroes

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

The guy with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth and yelling "everybody shut up in here!" Is my hero!

[@trainboy2300]

🇱🇷America makes stupid choices

[@wwegirl8747]

John Clover N Don't talk about my country. America don't make stupid choices.

[@savinhoslijngard2354]

Luna Lovegood well. Trump is president after all

[@wwegirl8747]

Savinho Slijngard Every American didn't vote for Trump. Try again smartass.

[@F3502000]

gunz-n-gadgets You always listen to the guy with the smoke in his mouth...its basic protocol.

[@sometime.somewhere]

Not sure if this is just average newsroom energy, but i love seeing people, in whatever job, in high octane, 'somethings wrong' mode.

[@DEVTHADUDE7]

thechampionessa it’s great seeing all the cogs move EXCEPT for media.....nothing but cockroaches

[@comment2009]

That is just about how it happens on significant breaking news, not the daily low level "breaking news". Side note: Today news stations have vast video servers, back then it was 3/4" videotape.

[@Katehowe3010]

'It's silly no? When a rocket ship explodes, and everybody still wants to fly. But some say a man ain't truly happy unless a man truly dies. Oh why?'

[@joeg5414]

Makes me think of when I worked in airfield management in the Air Force and we had an F-16 crash. Definitely the one moment that really stands out to me for that.

[@seraphik]

i know what you mean. high-achieving people running on all cylinders is really just the peak of what humanity has to offer. i feel like you see this energy at the olympics too. just people who are at the top of their fields, being at the top of their game.

[@rebeccahopkins9522]

I was just a little kid when this happened. Single digits even. We had all been allowed to stay home from school to watch the launch on tv. My Dad, who owned his own shop, stayed home to watch with my Mom and me. When it happened, my Mom screamed and my Dad actually cried. I didn’t realize what had happened and asked him why he was crying. He said “cause they all just blew up”. Nearly 35 years later, my Dad deceased now, I still remember it like it was yesterday. One of the biggest, most widely witnessed in real time, saddest, most unexpected tragedies that ever happened in our country. Especially because how happy and excited everyone was just moments before, and a civilian teacher was part of the mission. Horrible tragedy. All these years later I’ve never forgotten that day.

[@LittleMissV]

I think the title for the most unexpected US tragedy witnessed in real-time should go to 9/11

[@spacecadet2172]

it’s not even close to saddest, biggest tragedy. Worse tragedies happen literally every day in America

[@travisseals3149]

This was one of my earliest memories, probobly the first major news event I could remember witnessing firsthand.

[@lisafoos8976]

They set us up in the auditorium and a TV. We were kids and saw it live...

[@bman99ss]

Sorry to hear of the passing of your father.

[@patkun01]

All these people, dying after taking the risk of going to space, sacrificing their lives, helping the future missions be success... i salute these people so much... then flat earthers appear....

[@erdafaandikri6780]

When i read this... didn't expect that ending

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Yep. Why on Earth anybody with access to all combined knowledge of the human race decides to deny it, is way beyond me. We are living in a truly sad state.

[@WhiteoutTech]

*Steel Beam* because the bible states that the earth got created in 6 days, that its in the center of everything and that its a flat pancake. And many people cannot live without believing that there is an afterlife

[@madwax4771]

I know it's not a flattering comment, but when this project fell flat, they knew they had been working flat out when they fell back to the earth from 46,000 feet in 2 minutes 45 seconds flat. Yes this knowledge will certainly knock you flat, but it's the reality, and that's flat!

[@practicalwerewolf]

@@madwax4771 not really that creative of a comment. Just remember.. try.. try again.

[@thespaceelefant2441]

"obviously a major malfunction"

[@crisinreverse8223]

I'm hip I was like wtf 😂 still feel bad tho

[@missunderstood8445]

Ya reckon?😂

[@sbchelldiver]

They did not have a look at images, all they had were the ship's readings, so he just said what the readings told him-a major malfunction...

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

Very calmly stated

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

@Markus Allen are you high brother?

[@zacrie9374]

Who’s here after the launch today which was a success thank God🙌🏾....

[@letsride3016]

Here's your like 👍🏽

[@CharlesGregory]

Sure you don't mean "thank scientists and engineers"?

[@tapankumarmondal1091]

SpaceX

[@lautizas]

@@CharlesGregory exactly

[@bornana269]

Charles Gregory sure you dont mean shut the fuck up

[@mikethespike056]

The last frame of the video is so.. eerie.

[@weslenforever]

After all these years this still make me SO angry. They KNEW they shouldn't launch that day. It was so cold and the shuttle was covered in ice. There was talk for weeks before that it couldn't be launched if the temp was below 50. But they did it anyway. After there was talk that the astronauts may have been alive when the capsule went in the water.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

There was one guy who tried to stop it but they blacklisted him.

[@smallbluemachine]

Joseph Ybarra - hopefully after this he got back on the whitelist.

[@ILLOGISTICSPROD]

Biggest told you so in history. Bastards.

[@reflectiveglasses3338]

They weren’t alive lady, they would have passed out and died on descent due to Pressure, temperature, and no oxygen.

[@2660016A]

People should have gone to jail. They wilfully ignored engineers warnings for the sake of making schedule. Criminal negligence.

[@Miakel]

The CNN people could not look more 80s if they tried

[@Kgio-2112]

It was 1986. What should they look Like?

[@delusional_lucidity4545]

Right, fucking A

[@annetteslife]

You know this happened in 1986

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen do you have to a coward?

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen which is everyday and like I had said "Act like an adult" you are acting like a child!

[@melissasalazar1436]

I was 17 years old when it happened. It was during my lunch period and someone, I think, went into the cafeteria to say something happened. I watched the story unfold in the library. I'll never forget it.😢

[@DocMicrowave]

This is amazing footage in the Newsroom. I didn't know they shot background b-roll footage like this back then. This event was such a shock. I remember being in timesquare and seeing everybody standing in place looking up at the giant ticker scrolling the story minutes after it happened.

[@RemingtonCrowder]

During the Ted Turner days of CNN, when a major event happened, someone would grab a camera and start recording. It gave a way of showing people how breaking news is covered for that time period. You might still see some CNN newsroom footage from 9/11 that shows how CNN covered it and stayed on the air.

[@DocMicrowave]

@@RemingtonCrowder Interesting!

[@ArthurB26]

​@@RemingtonCrowder Very smart

[@DaveWhoa]

still just as hard to watch in 2019

[@annetteslife]

It is still hard for me to watch as well. I was 13 years old at the time of the Challenger disaster

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen JUST SHUT UP! AND ACT LIKE A GROWN ADULT FOR ONCE!

[@elchupulooo8970]

Ignorant indoctrinated sheeple the shuttle exploded on impact because it hit the Dome and firmament of our creator and heavenly father yahuah YAH.. Stop lying to the ignorant sheeple who believe in all your stupidity because you all follow Satan's lies and deceivments what a joke wow

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

Just like the day it happened

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

@@annetteslife I was too,bad day at school

[@carl_anderson9315]

I admire the professionalism, seriousness and organization of the 80s CNN crew.

[@gonzalocanas8335]

professionalism?They know like now, the bad news sell more than the good ones.

[@urekmazino6800]

​@@gonzalocanas8335if this happened today it'd be on every news station

[@Blueslyfox]

@@gonzalocanas8335dude this was live so what point are you even making here

[@gonzalocanas8335]

@@Blueslyfox The point is that they never cared about anyone of those who exploded... what happened in the twin towers, what happened in Ukraine and how it will continue to happen all over the world. I don't know if the point is good or bad , it's just a point...

[@cfoskeeter]

Too bad those qualities no longer exist at CNN.

[@serenegenerally]

Seeing this is so so sad. Not knowing that you will die tomorrow is so terrifying, I hate that the engineers were overruled and something that could’ve been avoided happened. the Challenger team was so brave to go onto the shuttle, even if it resulted in them losing their lives. I remember when I was a little kid watching PBS (the cartoon block had ended) and I saw a documentary about the Challenger (I don’t remember if it was the challenger but I know it was a space shuttle accident), and how all the members died. I didn’t understand that when it means dead, they’re gone. But now I do. I wish that all the Challenger’s families can find peace and I hope everyone on board is in a better place

[@KillerFix24]

It would be more terrifying to know vs not knowing you were gonna die

[@psychadelics4468]

whos here after spacex already launched

[@Merryianna]

Me :]

[@aurelian2641]

Me

[@mikkit4649]

Me

[@non-inertialobserver946]

present

[@quodterminosjustifyquodmed6616]

Nominal

[@MrNJT]

RIP to the crew lost in the challenger. You will be remembered.

[@gurke640]

@Markus Allen who shit in your cereal holy crap

[@thebeasters]

Sup jersey

[@joechurch0215]

Historic. Sad. I watched the live event with the entire 7th grade. It was an assembly event because of teacher Christa McAuliffe's notoriety. I was particularly interested in the Challenger launch because my childhood dream at 4th grade was to be an astronaut - (even though by 7th grade I wasn't clinging as strongly to that career goal anymore. Still, to this day, I love space topics and read articles all the time.) Anyway, I'll never forget the reaction of my science teacher, Ms. Brook, who hosted the drummed-up event in her own classroom jam-packed with all three 7th grade classes. It started as a party atmosphere - a leisurely break from the monotony of whatever classes we were regularly scheduled to attend that day. Heightened anticipation before the launch, the excited countdown in unison, an amazing and mind-blowing liftoff, the dramatic cheers, and then the side chatter throughout the room while the post-climactic ascent continued through the sky. That is... until the strange smoke suddenly appeared to fly everywhere. Boosters seemed to be traveling in separate directions; but we had lost visibility to the shuttle carrying our courageous crew. "Where is it?" The room got quieter, and we - puzzled - turned to Ms. Brook for some hint of whether the plumes of smoke on the TV screen were routine. Maybe a stage-2-separation type of activity? She was also unsure, trying to digest what the TV was showing; but she was still a thought-step or two ahead of us. Her widening eyes and uncertain lips felt increasingly more alarming. The delay in feedback from the newscasters, combined with the shift in her facial reactions, had the equal effect of slowly erasing the hopeful chance in our minds, that what we had just seen was somehow not as bad as the morbid ideas that our imaginations were letting on. Her gradual understanding slowly became ours, as we hesitated to realize the malicious magnitude of what had just happened before our eyes. She shrieked once confirmation came through. Sobbing, her knees buckled, and she lost the strength to stand straight. She had to be supported and comforted by Mr. Williams, another 7th grade teacher. It was surreal, and had a chain effect. There was no more doubt by then; only an unfriendly, unwelcomed depression over the entire room, the entire day. The celebratory excitement following lift-off had quickly and tragically morphed between bizarre states of shock, confusion, disbelief, horror... and tears. And it all happened in the brief space of only a few minutes. It was a very rare, unmatched scholastic experience. Thanks for the upload. As tragic a period in space history as it was, it paved future successes for the space program and our relentless curiosity of the skies.

[@AmethystEyes]

E. Joseph Churchville how did everyone deal with it after it happened?

[@henney93]

you sir, have an amazing writing skills. I could imagine and feel your exact experience just by reading these words.

[@jaydavis9005]

I agree with henney93. Very descriptive. I was in 4th grade at the time, and thankfully I didn't watch it live. I was in social studies class and heard about it later, and then watched all the TV coverage after I got home. The first "Remember-where-you-were-when" event of my lifetime. If you haven't seen the Punky Brewster episode on Challenger, you should see it. It's on KZbin, that's how I saw it. She captures my thinking on the whole thing perfectly.

[@jasonlee8497]

E. Joseph Churchville me too, in the 3rd grade. i remember our teacher was in shock. no one talked about it. i didnt really understand what happened until i got home.

[@philipzamora4259]

notoriety... I don't think that word means what you think it means. After all, isn't notoriety a term used for someone famous for a tragedy or horrible deed? She wasn't "notorious" before this happened, she was and still is "inspirational."

[@Zoomer30]

"And graphics, I need graphics!" They use that line in Deep Impact.

[@NautilusGoose]

Thought exact the same.

[@a.lilchicboysmith2952]

I was 16 years old when I was watching this with classmates and our school teacher in 1986.

[@spirittammyk]

I was about 8 and lived in Eastern South Florida and the whole school was out on the play field like we always do to watch the shuttle take off, and before we knew it the principle was coming out and ushering us all back to class. From there we watched it all unfold on TV. I also remember a while later, there was a show called Punky Brewster and they had an episode of the explosion that kind of stuck with me to this day.

[@bhollingsworth]

3:04 is a legend.

[@dml0ver]

I feel like I've seen him in several movies

[@easterdm]

Shut up in here!

[@BabySonicGT]

@@easterdm I thought he said “shut up and hear”

[@Larry_Ibarra]

How the mission control guy managed to remain that calm is beyond me.

[@jpcodnia9133]

Maybe he had something to do with it, like those "inside job" cases

[@mikethespike056]

@@jpcodnia9133 he wasn't looking at the space shuttle. That's why he continued talking after the explosion and didn't even notice it right away. The following seconds were just his skills

[@mikethespike056]

@@jpcodnia9133 he wasn't looking at the space shuttle. That's why he continued talking after the explosion and didn't even notice it right away. The following seconds were just his skills

[@aryan7767]

jp codnia shut the fuck up

[@kiragoldy4615]

Ikr. If it was me I'm probably in hysterics.

[@juneseghni]

Watching this as if it were yesterday. Even though I knew what was coming I still had my heart in my mouth. I was pregnant then with my son who is now 34 and a father of 3 kids. That's the only indicator to me of how long ago this is. Shocking tragedy. Their poor families and colleagues.

[@Nelson_Swamp]

I was in 8th grade that morning watching this with my class. It truly was an anticipated event back then. When it became apparent something was wrong, the entire classroom sat in shocked silence, maybe confusion. My teacher rushed to turn off the television. She was devastated but had to soldier on for us. Every time I see footage from this tragedy, I think of that classroom and my teacher.

[@UKBornin1971]

"Obviously a major malfunction", well that's an understatement

[@UKBornin1971]

@Joe Smith Never said they were, and how would you know that

[@UKBornin1971]

@Joe Smith Go kick rocks barefoot dummy. My comment says that HIS comment was an understatement. How the fuck you know he wasn't looking at a monitor🙄🙄

[@euangarbut3977]

Andre Akerele, What else would he say? Those guys are trained to speak clearly so everybody can easily understand them, if he said the tank exploded there would have been more confusion caused than saying it was a malfunction,which it was

[@UKBornin1971]

@@euangarbut3977 It was sarcasm🙄

[@euangarbut3977]

Ok

[@kevinhillary4057]

Dang he was trying to do a voiceover for an image and just goes “SHUT UP IN HERE” you’re supposed to call “Quiet on the set!” but his way works too lmao

[@spanneraol]

well he was stressed... and it wasn't a "set"

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

Then he went and groped someone

[@missyverah8444]

The Devil's Advocate what

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

The Devil's Advocate what

[@luv2467]

You’re a freaking dumba$$

[@54spatula]

I remember reading somewhere, that they survived the explosion. They were alive and doing a couple of thousand mph when the shuttle hit the Sea. Just terrifying. RIP Heroes.

[@booqueefious2230]

They did have launch-abort capabilities but they were very limited in the stage of flight where it happened. After that mission, they severely improved the capabilities. The next disaster would be something completely different

[@EmeraldWaters-uq1jb]

they were very very likley to be unconscious very quickly after the explosion. There is evidence the module depressurized. It is true they were conscious for some brief window. But even if the cabin didnt depressurize, the G's they started to experience in the fall would have very quickly knocked them out and then possibly even killed them.

[@OCinneide]

@@EmeraldWaters-uq1jbI believe that they were able to analyse the switch positions and saw that they had progressed through the checklist for cabin depressurisation.

[@EmeraldWaters-uq1jb]

@@OCinneide yes but you have about a minute or less of consciousness when depressurization happens, unless you get oxygen. There was a flurry of activity during that very small window. its unclear if any of them properly had oxygen to keep them consicous and i believe a few verifably did not so they would be unconscious. I was talking about their total experience--It is exremely unlikely they were conscious for the entire ordeal from explosion to hitting the oceans surface. Its is very probable they were all dead by the time of impact. Again the g forces alone: we just dont know what experiences like that do to a body because weve never seen it, but what we do know suggests it would have killed them. Or, almost certainly made them unconscious whether they had oxygen or no oxygen. But its not conclusive, there are scenarios where some of them could have llived and possibly been conscious for the entire plummet. But those are very slim and unlikely and they mostly exist as possibilities because the damage from the impact masked what happened before, not anything directly suggesting them.

[@OCinneide]

​@@EmeraldWaters-uq1jb Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, director of life sciences at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the explosion that tore the crew compartment from the rest of the orbiter probably would not have killed or even seriously injured the crew members. “Medical analysis indicates that these accelerations are survivable and that the probability of major injury to crew members is low,” Kerwin wrote in a report to Truly. In his report, Kerwin said the crew “possibly but not certainly” lost consciousness in the seconds after the orbiter began breaking apart because of loss of pressure in the crew cabin. He said the amount of time which the crew maintained consciousness “depends on the rate at which the crew module lost pressure, and that depends on the size of the hole in the crew module,” which could not be ascertained from the wreckage. The explosion occurred at an altitude of 48,000 feet, and the crew cabin continued to a peak of 65,000 feet, Kerwin said. “The pressures there are so low that even with a supplemental breathing supply, the time of useful consciousness would vary between approximately 6 and 15 seconds,” Kerwin said at the news conference. “So the number of seconds that the crew may have retained consciousness would be a function of how rapidly the crew module lost pressure.” When asked after the news conference if he meant that the crew probably remained conscious for at least 10 seconds, Kerwin replied: “Yes.” ----- I'll take the word of a NASA director. They also had supplemental oxygen and three of those were activated.

[@nova_kane]

The CNN staff back then looked like they had Christmas parties at Nakatomi Plaza.

[@Trashcanman135]

What’s your name? Roy.

[@skymaster4743]

Only if Hans Gruber was there.

[@heizmannfabio3624]

Helsinki ....Schweden......no .. Finnland !!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@jakkew5753]

30 years ago today. The astronauts knew they might not return, but decided to take the risk anyways.

[@leetaylor3641]

No they didn't you fool they knew nothing about the problems with the O-rings due to the cold temps that day, NASA management made a decision the day before against the advice of one employee of morton thiokol that cost the Astronauts there lives, Roger boisjoly said the shuttle would explode due to poor expansion rates in cold temps allowing fuel to escape.

[@4776yankee]

+Lee Taylor you fucking idiot, those astronauts are on a space vehicle with 17,000 moving parts with Solid rocket boosters and nitrogen gas, yeah, absolutely no whatsoever......

[@leetaylor3641]

Debbie collins​ hey debbie I love you too!! Firstly I was referring to a specific point ok and secondly you call me a fucking idiot and then say the space shuttle has 17,000 moving parts when infact it has 2, 1/2 million moving parts!! Where you came up with 17,000 is a mystery to me and really you ended up looking like a dumbass.

[@robertthomas2601]

+jakkew I'm pretty sure they spend a lot of time with friends and family in the weeks prior to launch, anticipating the rather discomforting odds that something can go wrong.

[@E.TGropeHome]

Return? They never left ha!

[@davy1458]

I was in the 2nd grade living in Florida at the time. Every time there was a shuttle launch the whole school would go out to the play ground and sit in the grass and watch the shuttle go up....i saw this happen with my own two eyes and not a year of my life has since passed that I do not continually remember it

[@ohdear_marty7672]

jesus, i know my words today won’t make anything better but i’m so sorry you had to witness this so close up, i can’t imagine how that must have shattered you at such a young age. you didn’t deserve that.

[@davy1458]

@ohdear_marty7672 ah....it was shocking at the time but I wouldn't say I was traumatized by it....tho I do seem to think about it every day at some point. It was probably much more traumatizing to my 1st grade teacher (my first grade teacher being a different person than the teacher I had at the time of the challenger explosion) who was actually one of the finalists to be selected to go up in the spaceshuttle...however in the end she wasn't picked to go ...I'm sure she was sad when she didn't get picked but after seeing it explode I'm sure she felt different....I wish I would have asked her how she felt. But I was to young to think of such things at the time. Appreciate your response to my post tho. Thank you for taking the time.

[@mrawesome2742]

I was watching this live in third grade and I’ll never forget the reaction of my teacher. She just switched off the TV and try to change the subject.

[@EmanDeMoan]

Good teacher imo

[@christinawallace2051]

I was only 7 years old when this happened and my classmates and I were watching the live broadcast in school when the Challenger exploded. Students and teachers alike were visibly upset because we were looking forward to science lessons from one crewman in particular.

[@knockingowl4028]

I remember sitting in my grade 2 class, watching it all unfold. At first we were confused. I'll never forget our teacher telling us the obvious of the moment. We were stunned. Eventually we all started crying. I recall it like yesterday.

[@rjjcms1]

I remember seeing it on the news here in England,either during or after work that day at a new temp job I'd started that week,with a snowstorm going on outside.

[@Pan472]

1:01-1:04 "This morning looked as though they were not going to be able to get off-" And then, 1:05 happens. This had to be the most eerie and frightening moment witnessed by everyone watching this live on 28th January 1986.

[@pebbleman721]

Thiokol engineers warn NASA about the O-ring risk and the temperature problems. NASA chose pride over safety by launching it in cold temp, due to previous delays. What a disgrace.

[@TimmyTickle]

@@pebbleman721 Pride... or media exposure?

[@eloisaguilar72]

It's on Netflix showing now, When I was watching it, I saw several what to be a sign from God not to launched, the weather, the door didn't want to lock, a screw was thread out, the 3 repair guys had 3 cordless drills and they where all dead, the ship had ice that morning, I mean all the signs were there telling not to launch because those rings were not good.😳😬😭

[@ChatGPT1111]

Kinda like on 9/11 when the morning crew said on air minutes before that it looks to be an uneventful day.

[@angl5615]

Who came here after watching the serie on Netflix?

[@KeyhaneBishomar]

What serie? I wanna watch

[@poppileepopp]

@@KeyhaneBishomar It's called "Challenger: The Final Flight" .. I just watched it, and whoa 👀www.netflix.com/search?q=challen&jbv=81012137

[@antonioangelszamosi8421]

Who’s here after the cancelation of SpaceX and NASA

[@talossebi6803]

LOOOL

[@mosesisack9646]

Me

[@cama1112]

Yep

[@Zoefzoefable]

This is what happens when they are under pressure to launch anyway. It was too cold and yet still they proceeded. Good thing they halted todays launch.

[@krisferguson2428]

Yep

[@ardisgardner4641]

that was a sad day...I was 10 at the time watching live.....God bless the family's

[@leetaylor3641]

I was 11 at the time and remember watching it live

[@xxuser0200]

Ardis Gardner I was in my dads testicles

[@TheBeautyofMy2Eyes]

*_I WAS IN MY GRADE 12 PHYSICS CLASS, AND OUR TEACHER CAME INTO THE ROOM & SAID "DID YOU HEAR THAT THE SPACE SHUTTLE BLEW UP?" THEN THE CLASSROOM (ALL BOYS) ALL CLAPPED, LAUGHED, AND CHEERED. BUT MY BEST FRIEND WAS SHOCKED & SCREAMED "WHAT?!?" AS FOR ME, I JUST ROLLED MY NAKED EYES & TOLD MY BESPECTACLED FRIEND "DON'T FEEL BAD. THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME!"_*

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

@Markus Allen fill up your pockets with rocks,crack included, and walk into a deep lake

[@sanick4864]

@Markus Allen so edgy

[@erictheviking844]

Damn that newsroom was pretty awesome not gonna lie

[@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051]

How were they awsome? Please elaborate

[@Weightlossjourney24]

Yeah real stories, today it’s smoke and mirrors!

[@thebeasters]

@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 real shit. Now it's all Treason and facists

[@TheErockaustin]

Back when the news employed actual journalists

[@MeredithPeruzzi]

Please enable captions! This is important coverage everyone should see.

[@DS-lh1dh]

I was 11 yrs old watched it live on TV.. I watched all the shuttle launches from as far as I can remember.. Was truly heartbreaking.. God bless them and there families

[@ReviewTheCritics]

This is incredible footage! Feels like a movie.

[@tannertoby1834]

Andrew Toy do you think that was maybe because it was manufactured to I dunno make the media seem a bit different...

[@stevenwilding5311]

Except real people died not actors

[@johngallipani2781]

Andrew Toy cause it was

[@tannertoby1834]

steven wilding did they? Your sure?

[@RealHomeRecording]

@@tannertoby1834 are you sure they didn't?

[@meganruchwatercolors7186]

I was 21 years old. I was in my studio apartment watching this live on my little television!!! It was so shocking to see what happened!! So tragic!!

[@moraimarosariocastillo8680]

wow... 21 yo in 1986.. u were lucky

[@gupta8554]

Times just flows very fast, we are getting older day by day😢

[@unusualsuspectsszzzz]

I'm here after the successful launch of nasa space X Dragon

[@YaItxSmoothy]

I'm here to watch the video only and not asking some stupid question

[@MrCraiglicious]

Terribly sad to watch and see such precious intelligent lives gone right in front of our eyes.I will never forget that day.

[@archibaldelkin6541]

If this happened today, the news would rely on Twitter for information.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

They doesn't and they wouldn't. You would.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher They do. But since they can't control the narrative anymore, they stopped caring about giving "news".

[@Bill-ut9qi]

there would be hella memes everybody so shallow now if only they blew up ina shuddle

[@jasonfaber1463]

The liberals would blame President Trump......sad but true.

You'd have the right maniacs calling "fake news CNN" in loops, blaming the liberals/deep state/never trumpers/scientists/whoever and spreading rumours following the alt-right playbook, and you'd have the left rabids trying to blame it on Trump/Russia/the society/capitalism and of course spreading their own rumours. Typical Hyperpolarised Twitter days. You can already see a sample in the comments here.

[@jojopuppyfish]

For everyone who wasn't born when this happened: Most people did not have cable back in 1986.......so very few people were watching CNN when this happened. Also, in 1986, the Shuttle launches were becoming so routine that the local news was not covering these launches live. Obviously there were some exceptions.

[@milankumarsethy1019]

jojopuppyfish I was born 11 days after this incident, so heartbreaking 😢

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen the vast majority didn't have cable you fucking moron

[@biprr4993]

Blue Skeptic they almost brought big bird instead of the teacher but the costume was too big

[@biprr4993]

Markus Allen dude chill we all know you’re 9 don’t pretend you know all About the 80s because of google and stranger things

[@biprr4993]

Markus Allen no it’s that the way you act all over this comment section makes It abundantly clear you don’t know what you’re even saying

[@tonypierson9044]

Nearly 35 years later this is no easier to watch ! Never forgotten those 7 brave souls ❤️

[@lbacker90]

Was in Spanish class my senior year of high school & we were watching live when the challenger exploded. I remember there being nearly absolute silence the remainder of the school day.

[@andrewharrier]

I remember being 6 and my whole School went in the cafeteria for an assembly to watch Challenger lift off on t.v. I remember being very confused as to why the older kids and teachers were upset as I was only six and I had no idea what was going on but I do remember that that will be a memory I'll never forget...

[@PP-ky2ji]

Lol

[@Squidbillies1000]

What an experience for 6 year old.

[@xoheartz3xo]

Crazy. I was six when 9/11 happened. Learned a lot about the world that a six year old shouldn't. I would have endless nightmares about planes crashing into my home or other buildings and ended up with a terrible phobia of airplanes until I was 13. What an experience. I wonder how I'd feel watching the live coverage of the challenger explosion.

[@ryvr.]

"shut up in here"🚬

[@user-do5qn3iy5g]

I didnt even know what is the most people here tell about "shut up in here" meaning?could u explain it?

[@mysoundrights]

sounds like "Shut up and Hear" (what he was saying)

[@xboxheavy]

The guy talking over the launch is like "Alright nothing happened here, some minor details"

[@Michelle-rv9ks]

That was the flight director. Footage of him in Challenger Mission Control.

[@princeadle]

Who's here before the Crew Dragon Launch today March 28, 2020?

[@MW_MH_-]

me lol

[@Soulhander]

Me 2

[@danielmyres8107]

Me 4

[@andream5493]

Me haha

[@aerojetrocketdyners-2538]

scrubbed

[@Zedek]

This rare footage is a very great contemporary witness of what happened back then. It's cool they took footage from the news room and backstage areas too instead of simply showing what has been actually aired. Thanks for documentating this day of fate for so many people. (We need more people doing this. Not focussing on the main event, but all the small details in the background)

[@Offthbadan]

I remember having a bad feeling after all the delays on this mission. I thought it would be canceled for months and then I heard this. I felt sick.

[@jpcodnia9133]

Saturn 5 is a better design by any standards. Shuttle has had issues and they just got tired of analysing what could be done and took a chance. Sad

[@patriciasalem3606]

Like the commentator, I also had a dream about the Challenger exploding the night before the launch. In the dream I was one of the astronauts, floating through space. I kept saying to myself, "It's all going to be okay." Not that the explosion wouldn't kill me, but that death was freedom. That dream has stuck with me vividly for decades.

[@omarzamora5395]

thats very humbling thanks for sharing. any idea why this was so powerful in your life?

[@nancybenton5635]

Whoa!

[@coxallk32]

Absolute rubbish. It's the same as those dumb people that say "I could have been on that flight" (after a plane crash) forgetting that the plane was fully booked and they never even had a ticket. Stop this nonsense.

[@MissMariQueen]

Sure you had that dream! I know because I was in your head 🙄

[@coxallk32]

@@MissMariQueen at least it proves you're consistent when it comes to talking absolute nonsense. I was hoping it was a one-off ludicrous thing you said, sadly not.

[@chickie456]

1:02 the way he goes dead silent after he just said that is just gut turning, gotta give it to him for keeping his cool and calm after just seeing that. My mom and grandma seen this happen on the tv, my grandma was on the phone with my aunt when my mom came in and told her "it exploded, it just exploded"

[@AmolJr]

The dude from CNN didn't even use any emotion when he was talking.

[@Ryandupont0896]

its because he couldn't even budge to talk due to being in horrific shock, awe, and disbelief of what happened

[@Southerngal72]

[@ajomagurd]

Amol Jr Why did they film the newsroom?

[@jaydavis9005]

Just a matter of him being in complete shock. And he knew he had to keep it together and not go overboard in trying to describe what happened, being on the public airwaves.

[@Tio-Nino]

That's the hardest part of being a real reporter, being neutral and do his job, no opinions no emotions. Unlike today is just bias. We needed news like that, so WE make decisions.

[@ti994apc]

No matter how many people blame NASA management, this was caused by a series of design flaws from the very beginning. The use of of both solid and liquid fuel, having the orbiter inline with the main fuel tank, requiring the O rings to absorb the shock of the SSME's. The design was a compromise design no one was happy with that could never meet the goals of its purpose.

[@zoidburg2975]

Chad Snow Er, 134 prior flawless launches, the design was fine.

[@ti994apc]

@@zoidburg2975 12 people died, --there is a death for 1/10 launches. The Shuttle ended up costing 1.5 billion per launch and was promised to be only 20 million per launch and routine. there is a major design flaw not only being the most dangerous manned vehicle, but for its true cost.

[@mr.mcnuggies]

Yea my science teacher said it was caused by some sort of gas leak in one of the tanks (I forgot which gas it was)

[@pa28acir]

@@mr.mcnuggies the main root cause was a defect in a seal ring of a booster. A plume of burning gases developed on a booster side meters above the nozzle sadly exactly against the main tank and leading rapidly to its explosion. You can see the plume in the last frames few seconds before It blew up.

[@saeedafyouni619]

The one word you can use is NIXON....this was his administration's fault....I remember when this happened.

[@KuroHatsu.]

The cameraman must have been traumatized when he zoomed in when the shuttle exploded

[@EmeraldWaters-uq1jb]

I thinkt they knew they had an important responsibility to capture as much useful information as possible.

[@BestBecky78]

I was in 3rd grade when this happened. They wheeled in the TV for us to watch it live in our classroom. We were so excited. I remembered when the explosion happened we all gasp and our teachers were so confused. I remembered all of us were quiet, sad and glued to the TV. It was so tragic 😢

[@rosahughey8081]

My 3rd grade class watched this too...I can't even really remember what we did or said afterward. I guess I just can't get past how surreal and bizarre it was to witness it

[@LEDANCETHERAPY]

This was so sad. I remember this very vividly❤

[@cybergothika6906]

I see they couldn't go to space but I know they reached peace on the stars.

[@cybergothika6906]

@@PP-ky2ji Stupidity walks together with arrogance... One of the many poop materialism can crap.

[@crystalwings4520]

@@PP-ky2ji Did you just disrespect them? They actually not died... At first. After the huge explosion, the cabin was depresurrized. Some of the crews were either unconscious or still alive. But they didn't had much time to save the others until the cabin impacted the ocean on very high speed of free fall. Thus it killed all crews.

[@PP-ky2ji]

@@crystalwings4520 nice

[@marshallross3373]

Interesting to see the seemingly frenetic and chaotic nature of the behind the scenes production effort for a live news broadcast, as they quickly try to anticipate how the story will unfold, the impact on scheduling, and the many logistical questions that arise on the fly. I'll never forget walking into my high school physics class and seeing everyone gathered around a small TV monitor in the room, watching the replays of this event.

[@tellysantos2392]

i was in the 6th grade watching this in the classroom 😢😢 I'll never forget the look on my teachers face 😢

[@powerofdvd5476]

"Bleach blonde coming on at 5, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye"

[@TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner]

So true

[@powerofdvd5476]

@@TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner its a song called dirty laundry

[@kevinkarg4464]

And she's a "bubble-headed" bleach blonde.

[@gerardog2663]

The relatives of the astronauts felt the worst pain.

[@TimmyTickle]

"Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down..."

[@6piecechickenmcnuggets23]

3:07 "Shut up in here!"

[@Jcwestrupp1]

I’m a big fan of this guy lol

[@daviddewey8242]

Geez, I don't know which one I remember more sitting in computer class,doing programs on the new school computers at the time,or watching this unfold on the av monitor in the class room,I was lost for words,and I'll never forget this tragic piece of history.

[@ironphoenix5145]

It was a bitter cold winter day and I was home from school because there was a massive snow storm hitting the state of Pennsylvania. It was one of those event where you remember where you were and what you were doing when it happened.

[@raffapur4243]

1:33 your love is bright as ever...

[@melindanelson7111]

I worked for Lockheed Space Operations at the Kennedy Space Center for many years and was, of course, out there on this horrid day. We were all ordered to not talk to the press and they were not allowed nor suppose to be roaming the grounds of the Space Center but they got in our building. I was chased by some idiot with a camera and I ran in the bathroom. This unnecessary tragedy was bad enough. What was even harder was, after the remains of the crew were recovered, my coworkers and I stood on the NASA Causeway and watched 7 black hearses go by coming from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to take them to their final resting places and their families. To this day, one of the top 3 most horrible days in my life. RIP CHALLENGER 7.

[@Lee-sd1vx]

3:07 *”SHUT UP IN HERE”* “open their mic”

[@kurtmoeller1434]

i remember being sick the moment my classmates all went down the hall to watch this launch. i just laid my head on the desk and hoped to get well in time to see it. well it was only a few minutes and the whole class came running back in just histerical. i asked one of my friends what happened. he said that it just blew up.. i was like 'no way, but that is what happened. and as the day wore on, i just became sadder and sadder. i held out hope that they would find the crew alive for at least a week. the whole experience is like remembering the deaths of members of my own family. ice accumulating on anything that flies is never good. our country owes these families better. its not alaska, its florida. one day tops and everything would have been fine.

[@tatijanacaldrmoska9418]

I remember watching this in primary school on the television i was 12 years old. It was so sad

[@samdanner6244]

I am now 66 years old and I remember this like it was yesterday. I am still in shock and awe over the Challenger Accident. America was in Shock.

[@freelance4132]

The fact that they didn’t have the internet as we know it, & yet are still able to gather pertinent information ✔️✔️✔️ I can’t even fathom

[@donnalombardo1135]

Exactly that's professionalism

[@AboveAvgMan]

Al gore was working hard that day

[@barbarahiggins583]

I was just 10 when this happened, I remember our teacher let us watch it in the classroom because there was a school teacher on board, the whole class counted down to lift off, we were so excited, after the shuttle exploded the teacher turned off the tv, a lot of started crying as we knew something had happened just not sure what, the teacher gave us notes to take home explaining what happened so our parents could discuss it us, the next day the teacher also talked with us about it more, it was really hard at the time watching it at such a going age, still hard all these years later.

[@proxin1145]

Wow, these historical archives are amazing. I had no idea that CNN, at one time, was an actual News Network.

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen fuck you fucking 12 year old

[@malindagarza8762]

I remember watching the count down in my 7th grade classroom. We were excited because a teacher was on board. We did the count down we cheered then in a blink of an eye it exploded. To this day the memory is fresh.

[@NorceCodine]

I remember I was in high school, we watched it on TV, the physics teacher demonstrated the conversation of momentum principle on the different pieces flying off just after the explosion.

[@spectacularspaghetti1849]

Footage from the past is always incredibly interesting . Rest in peace to all precious 7 souls lost in this disaster

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

30 years in Heaven. God bless them all.

[@Aqua.man045]

+George Vreeland Hill How do you know they all went to heaven?

[@J0hnBr0wnsB0dy]

+Aqua Man they dont. but because they died in a tragedy they are labeled "heroes". what a load of shit

[@Freethinker1958]

+George Vreeland Hill That is a very sweet thing to say (I guess), but it means nothing. It is funny to hear pious, religious people having a "God Bless You" contest. Each freak tries to outdo the other freak with saying that meaningless phrase the most times.

[@sundaypro]

They get BJs by Jesus. How I envy them. Getting the balls tickled by Jesus beard.

[@Muzzy12]

"Obviously a major malfunction." Yeah. Kinda major.

[@jlongino51823]

Being a 5 year old in Headstart this is why I still have to watch but I hold my breath during launches. It was on television for so many children. May the victims rest in peace and I pray their families found comfort after.

[@noirincassidy6090]

I'll always remember this it happened on my 20rh birthday. May they all RIP.

[@davidellis5141]

4:21 He's That Guy !

[@mr.mcnuggies]

Both my science teacher and my mom said that they watched this happen live in school while my science teacher was in Grade 11 and my mom was in Grade 5, and they both said that everyone was just in shock and people couldn’t believe what was happening.

[@mrawesome2742]

Mr. McNuggies I was in third grade when this happened and I was watching it live. When my teacher started crying I knew something was really wrong.

[@Mikathedog100]

It affected enough kids that Punky Brewster made an episode about it...I was 7.

[@susistrolch6930]

I saw this tragedy live on tv as a kid. It was horrible and everyone was shocked.

[@Alaska_Gal]

I was 11 when this happened, watching it with my elementary school class. We all went silent.

[@annetteslife]

I remember this accident like it was yesterday. Rest in peace to the seven astronauts on board

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen get the fuck out of here just leave. I watched this on live television. You were not even born then or be respectful to myself and others. Get the fuck out of here or you will be reported or blocked

[@annetteslife]

@Markus Allen how about you stop being an obnoxious little brat because that is what you are nothing more than a childish brat. So go back to playing with your toys that mommy gave you fucking kid. Stop giving out information that was off of Google and start giving out real facts you mindless self righteous prick

[@MaheshWalatara]

This is one of those things I wished could go back in time and stop happening :(

[@keystonedaytrip238]

Disasters permeate your being , you never forget where you were & what you were doing when tragedy occurs. I was a sr. in high school , witnessed this on tv in english class. A sad day :(

[@phantom10]

Anyone here after _the historic launch_

[@michellejisabelle7710]

when i saw this on tv and tried to tell my family and relatives they didnt believe me

[@theguyof360]

@Markus Allen ???

[@random_account2160]

I bet they believe you now lol

[@katiewilliams5643]

This was a sad day I was 7 years old watching this and 30 years later tomorrow I feel like it was yesterday something you never forget God bless there family's and loved ones who pause to reflect on the lives that where lost 30 years ago tomorrow.

[@Rgucci7407]

Katie Williams I was also 7 years old and watched it too my grandmom had it on the TV, seems like yesterday....never forgot it. Bless their hearts, all 7 of them ☹️

[@anthonyc4138]

@Markus Allen lol

[@grim_56]

Markus Allen What the fuck is wrong with you

[@N3therWolf]

@Markus Allen oh, you placed more comments. How pathetic😂 I bet you have a pretty shitty live seeing what you are up to here ahahahah.

[@N3therWolf]

@Markus Allen my point? I already made clear. You are pathetic.

[@realchrisgunter]

35 years ago today.

[@andrewcheatle4691]

Watched this live - a moment I'll never forget...