A 68 TON rocket and its crew destroyed due... to a bit of foam.

[@StephenLuke]

RIP Rick Husband (1957-2003) William C. McCool (1961-2003) Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003) Kalpana Chawla (1962-2003) David M. Brown (1956-2003) Laurel Clark (1961-2003) and Ilan Ramon (1954-2003)

[@FenianAn1mal]

geee you can type. congrats

[@StephenLuke]

@@FenianAn1mal Seriously? That is not what was anticipated.

[@StephenLuke]

@@StayActive98 That depends on cultural, social, and personal contexts. I'd say Husband is a nice surname!

[@tomb9420]

Makes me wonder if space flight is even worth the risk.

[@Your_mom928]

@@FenianAn1malgee, your a douche bag. Congrats.

[@jarrensmith1060]

Idk how the algorithm gave me this weird french/english documentary but I'm here till the end now.

[@animula6908]

It was the date of the anniversary of the shuttle loss, so I guess they mass algorithmed us to commemorate the event.

[@fanbutton]

Don't waste your time. Space is fake, the Earth is flat, and NASA is nothing but a money sucking propaganda machine.

[@615taz]

I ended up watching the entire thing myself

[@Leigh3420]

@@615tazit was beautifully done. I didn’t mind the French dialogue at all.

[@olderickrobertesparon9915]

❤​@@animula6908

[@DavidMiller212]

Suits didn't listen to the engineers. That's why we lost Challenger and Columbia. Gross incompetent negligence from bureaucrats.

[@dennisford2000]

Dead wrong with the Challenger . It was Rockwell and the rest needed work. None died. And I was an eyewitness to the tragedy. Just like I was going to a reenactment when I said that we should have heard the booms just about now to the ex . It never came…..

[@DavidMiller212]

@@dennisford2000 there were no booms because Challenger didn't detonate. The engines were still operating but from a structural standpoint the STS was broken up. You are so ignorant.

[@deepakmorya5481]

5th ⅚​@@dennisford2000

[@jeffmilroy9345]

There are more dead assigned to credentialed engineers and designers than you can imagine. How about the world trade center. I had a real good idea why it failed before the top story hit the ground. Why is that Joe?

[@scottmonty1828]

What I haven't heard... if I were the family of any on those astronauts I would have sued NASA for "BILLIONS" because of their negligence. NASA committed murder at that launch. They should have never pushed to launch knowing that the One-Rings were compromised. SHAME ON THEM!!

[@mannellosebastien4555]

Toute personne qui a travaillé avec du carbone sait que si sa résistance à la température est grande, celui-ci peut se briser comme du verre face aux chocs. Cette configuration comportait indéniablement trop de risques en cas de collision contre ne serait-ce qu'un des nombreux déchets spatiaux largué lors de missions précédentes. Comment de tels ingénieurs ont ils pu ignorer ce fait et n'effectuer les tests de résistance qu'après le drame? Ca interpelle... Love-Love !

[@kayakdog121]

They lied to the commander of the shuttle. They proclaimed they knew there was "absolutely no risk" when they didn't know any such thing. They should have told him every detail of what they knew and let him decide whether to proceed with more photos or whatever. He is the commander for a reason.

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

NASA was advised that it might be wise to divert to make a pass by a satellite to get some images of the impact area to see if there was damage and they opted not to do that. NASA was advised to postpone the launch of Challenger because the temperature had dropped to freezing and the o-rings would fail. They opted to pressure MortonThiokol to override their engineers who built the boosters and was pushing to postpone the launch because the cold would prevent the rubber o-rings from sealing the joints between the booster segments. Two Shuttles and two crews vanished for negligence

[@gfujigo]

Chilling. I hope they have changed their ways.

[@paulywarly6977]

Yes agreed. As for having no ability to inspect the shuttle for damage is astounding! Why no spacewalk capability? Was it uneconomically viable?

[@paulywarly6977]

@@gfujigowell they didn’t did they having already lost Challenger, a loss that was totally avoidable!

[@waterthugs]

Some NASA people needed to be put in jail

[@hughhaefner3317]

Yes, the arrogance of the higher- ups in NASA have blood on their hands with regards to the Challenger and Columbia astronauts.

[@marksamuelsen2750]

I was in Dallas the morning the Columbia broke up. I was in the parking lot of Flight Safety International at the DFW Airport. I was late to ground school class as I stood there watching this machine break apart. I will never forget that horrible day.

[@andrewc1199]

What was the class' reaction to the loss of Columbia?

[@dutchess406]

Did u still have class that day

[@arcoxia4]

I'm an experienced orthopedics consultant and I can't imagine what you went through

[@stu4392]

I'm sorry for your memory 😢

[@Gmill3r]

@IvanmeAlawiyou’re trash for that statement, no empathy whatsoever

[@capricornk9033]

"An accident some years previous..."??? What an odd way to describe the Challenger disaster.

[@nathansmith1085]

"There was an whoopsie several years before. A minor detail was overlooked causing NASA to request a mulligan"

[@PassengerFifty7]

Always down play your fck ups. Minimize, Deflect, and Deny.

[@7thdayproductions330]

It's an AI narrator so 😂

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Calling that disaster an accident is a major understatement.

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

there's so much damage-control rhetoric in this I can't even watch. 🙄

[@JustTheFactsMan]

Thank you for using the footage that I shot of Columbia in this documentary.

[@utubebroadcaster]

Footage I originally shared with you. You're welcome!

[@WWESVRPLAYER]

Oh, where’s my autograph book?​@@utubebroadcaster

[@Lmngx13872]

If that's true you should get royalties for your work

[@BlackMageSam]

Well truth be told I gave you my camera that day so it's partially my footage

[@richardjura7450]

@@BlackMageSam If you “gave” your camera then you shouldn’t get any credit, but if you “loaned” your camera, then you should get credit.

[@CrazyCraigfromcraigyland]

The pain on his face when he had to say lock the doors heartbreaking 💔

[@nphipps9406]

@@CrazyCraigfromcraigyland what. did I missed that part

[@zebra2346]

Whenever a government agency says"dont worry" then you know its time to worry

[@Madonnism]

Exactly!!!

[@CCP2024P]

So true! Liars!!

[@NiteshTulsi]

❤❤❤❤😊​@@Madonnism

[@subject_7]

Facts!

[@murrayent1able]

I second that 😢

[@jenniferbell5482]

Speed and velocity have so much power. A little piece of foam travelling hundreds of miles and hour can do so much damage. Same as when people think planes can just ditch in the water and be fine, at the speed the plane is travelling, hitting the water is like slamming into concrete. When the plane landed on the Hudson, it was a miracle landing, due to the captain’s skills.

[@LoociferZ]

I'm pretty sure nobody thinks that they can ditch a highspeed plane in the water anymore. Even the flat earthers have that one figured out.

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

An accelerating piece of foam.

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

@@LoociferZ You'd be surprised.

[@LoociferZ]

God, don't tell me that stuff. I thought we had everyone tied into the "1. NO you can't jump up in the air so that the net result will be you hitting the water at 10mph. 2. this will turn your body into chum if you try to water land a plane at 150 knots" deal.@@nicolaskrinis7614

[@asdf9890]

@@nicolaskrinis7614yeah, with the amount of people I see speeding in poor conditions or even exceeding capabilities of their vehicle/road, quite a few don’t get real world physics. Movies make everything seem survivable.

[@asdf9890]

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s smile makes me sad every time I see her 😢 RIP

[@sharondasykes2101]

Yea she was so cute

[@fadika281]

😮😮

[@dahliacheung6020]

I know. She seems like she was one of those people who could light up any room she walked into

[@felicous]

It was the first time I saw an East Indian on tv and it made me proud

[@reallifebarbie1]

She was so gorgeous🤩💔

[@stevehuffman4625]

53:45 On that day in 2003, i was driving to work on FM 1960 in NW Houston. It was a beautiful bluebird day! At approximately 9am, something made me look off to my left... and I saw what appeared to be silver glitter falling from the sky.... a few minutes later, i walked into the workplace, and found everyone looking at a tv.... news flash about the shuttle! It was then that I knew what I had seen! OMG! tragic moments I will never forget!!! 😢

[@senatm7625]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@alex8fish]

I'm from that area

[@davidaugustofc2574]

That means the metal evaporated, very cool detail

[@smallfries3462]

I remember this my kids got sent home early from grade school as one of the astronauts was a school teacher from Concord NH all schools in the state closed early

[@isthiswherewecamein6130]

The most disgusting thing about all of this (outside of the obvious) is, in that letter from nasa to Columbia the person wrote, "Just one thing, it's not even worth mentioning, but, in case a reporter asks..". Like are you freaking serious. That is a someone trying to save face for nasa. Period. Disgusting.

[@joeshoe6184]

Glad you have the whole situation figured out after watching some KZbin content. With powers of deduction like that, perhaps you should be working for NASA...

[@isthiswherewecamein6130]

@@joeshoe6184 so, how would you have handled it if you were nasa? I'm assuming the way nasa handled it. We'll tell them it's nothing. And just cross our fingers and hope....? Sorry, but, I usually fell sorry for the heroes and NOT the government yes men. But, that's just me. You do understand they prepared them for the media asking about the debris JUST TO SAVE FACE, and it WAS NOT for the benefit of the crew. I mean, outside of a last second, unprecedented rescue mission, they were pretty much screwed. But, at least if they knew the situation, maybe they could've talked to their families and said their possible goodbyes. But, I guess your right, keeping people in the dark is ALWAYS the correct course. Smh...COMPANY MAN...

[@joeshoe6184]

@@isthiswherewecamein6130 there are some wild flights of conjecture in your comment. Both about the disaster and about me. As far as the situation. Where did you get your information about the disaster? KZbin videos? Conversations with the actual participants? Actual legitimate research? I don't think you can do the latter unless your privy to information I'm willing to bet you are NOT privy too. I'd bet youre speaking from a place of almost complete ignorance. For all you know these people were struggling mightily to try and do the right thing in an incredibly complicated situation, and they torture themselves every day over what they did or didn't do. As far as me being a "company guy". If you actually knew me, you'd get a good laugh out of that accusation. I'm about as far from a company man as there is on earth. Speaking of the phrase "company man". People come into this with a preconceived bias that "oh it's those dammed company men they're always the problem". And they seek to confirm that bias, rather than coming to a logical conclusion based on the actual facts of the matter. This behavior has become ubiquitous on the internet. People that are completely ignorant of the situation taking wild flights of conjecture and accusing others of heinous crimes. It ain't cool man.

[@julianshalders6047]

Rest in peace, brave crew, very sad for the families.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹.

[@DiHandley]

What on excellent documentary. Very impressed with all the details and the honesty of those people on the ground.

[@about2mount]

For four years prior to that launch NASA had problems with trying to keep heat tiles from falling off and were doing space walk inspections to check and repair them with a special caulking gun and extra tiles. So my question is why they didn't hold to that protocol? Incompetence.

[@fukhue8226]

I think they knew what was going on and that there was no repair. There is also no backup mission or escape pod. All of the redundancy NASA builds into everything has limitations. They knew the damage was there because I saw an animation of the Challenger making reentry. The pilot was crabbing the craft and it looked like he was trying to take stress and heat off of the damaged wing on the way down by crabbing the craft like an airplane would do to reduce speed.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@fukhue8226 I read somewhere that they could have done an improvised repair using asbestos heat blankets and filling the hole with heat resistant/insulating materials. It might have kept the interior of the wing from getting so hot it failed.

[@JimMac23]

There was a huge hole in the aluminum wing which was above the tiles. That could not have been repaired with tiles and a caulking gun.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

​@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017possible, but unlikely, aluminium loses structural integrity after a handful of minutes at 300° Celsius, that's why the best insulation in the world was used, I had no structural integrity, only insulation properties.

[@joeshoe6184]

​@JimMac23 nobody here wants to hear a solid rational explanation, they already have thier minds made up about a situation they're almost completely ignorant of.

[@nealwhaley63]

I remember that morning. I’d had to leave my car in a public lot overnight due to mechanical trouble. I narrowly avoided having it towed. Once I finally had it at the garage, I checked it in and crashed in the waiting room. I rested my eyes for a few minutes, then opened them to see the television playing. Columbia’s crew picture covered the entire screen and in that moment, I knew something had happened. I later had to max out my credit card to pay for the repairs, but it didn’t matter. I was still here. Those astronauts were gone. It was a terrible day.

[@roykohrs299]

😊😊😊😊

[@jol666jol]

[@ianwalters11]

@nealwhaley63 it’s so sad. I remember 9/11 but not for the reasons most do. I’d seen the twin towers and was travelling into a city in the UK I hit traffic in the tunnels and remember being scared in case we got attacked too. Without going into details that day was not a success and I had a very difficult couple of days ahead of me. But in the scheme of things that was misfortune on my part but I couldn’t complain those poor souls that lost their lives in New York through no fault of their own. Personal mistakes ultimately resulted in my circumstances those next few days.

[@joecortez623]

I just hope the families got welll compensated, and those involved held accountable....pride turned into grief and shame...

[@Del-Canada]

I remember seeing Challenger explode also. One of our teachers herded us into the AV room to watch it. I remember the moment it happened the room got silent even tho we were all giddy moments before. On the walk home nobody said anything. I can even remember exactly my body position. I was sitting cross legged on the floor. Surreal moment, especially back then before we were desensitized to everything. I was in high school at the time.

[@Rythyms]

Bad things happen when people don't listen to engineers. RIP Columbia and it's Crew.

[@symrob1306]

they prefer to listen the ''Don't know but influents people'' experts than the real scientific engineers.

[@cornerofthemoon]

No one really wants to talk about it, but the more I hear about the last moments of Columbia, the more I'm convinced that the crew knew they were doomed and were definitely conscious and felt physical pain at the end, if only for a couple of seconds.

[@Mark-ww1ii]

Unfortunately I agree

[@gregoryhagen8801]

NASA said they died instantly. Any Medical examiner will tell you that's BS.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

The same is true of the Challenger crew. They were likely conscious when they hit the ocean.

[@michaelfreeland2791]

Where's the video?

[@alanluscombe8a553]

They did know. NASA knew as well. There were conversations of trying to rescue them but it was concluded it wouldn’t be possible in time.

[@keiththorpe9571]

They didn't want to confirm the foam strike had caused critical damage to the orbiter because they knew full well there was nothing they could do about it. There were no viable rescue scenarios, their was no way to get Columbia to the ISS (They were on totally different orbital planes), and there was no way for the crew to conduct on-orbit repair of the damage.

[@ct6502-c7w]

Unfortunately, you're right. The crew was basically doomed. And once they fired the engines to de-orbit, their fate was sealed. 😔

[@MikeGcdi]

What is shocking is how consistently NASA disregarded safety concerns.

[@dahliacheung6020]

Yeah, the bar is so low that I actually don't have much worse expectations for SpaceX (and that was started by a guy whose company is known for its exploding cars) or whatever bezos is doing!

[@stuartf2946]

...and get away with it.

[@waynecross1924]

I once met a NASA official in France in 1990. He said he was extremely surprised they launched from Cape Canaveral That day considering the cold temperatures and NASa knowing that the seals had leakage problems in cold temperatures at launch.

[@mrs.vhorton8045]

27:35 so basically, they were worried about spending money than these people lives that are on a perhaps, highly probable damaged rocket.

[@angelaomondi913]

I also thought so.. very sad indeed!

[@LoociferZ]

Interesting to hear how they wouldn't move one of their spy satellites for the sake of at least knowing. I've not heard this information before. Makes me wonder what else I haven't heard.

[@jimwiskus8862]

⁠@@LoociferZthe engineers at one of the Air Force bases in CA was so concerned, they asked the DOD turn one of their satellites toward the orbiter as it passed by. The engineers boss who was at NASA found out about the request to the DOD for taking photos of the orbiter. She was later dismissed. Look up Alan J McDonald’s video, “Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Ethics Case Study”. Alan covers the Columbia situation specifically the request of the DOD that was rejected by their boss. If you want a real eye-opener look up the Reagan Commission on the Challenger disaster. A much younger Alan J McDonald testifies and it is damning. It’s pretty long, but it’s worth every second.

[@Jasper_the_Cat]

​@@LoociferZit makes me think that they likely already knew it was a serious problem. But you can only claim plausible deniability if you don't have a satellite giving definitive proof. I think they concluded (perhaps not incorrectly) that additional attention to the issue and a potential leak to the public would lead to cries for a Hollywood-style rescue attempt a la "Armageddon".

[@JimMac23]

Even if they had a photo it wouldn't have done any good. The astronauts didn't have the materials or the tools to repair that large a hole in the wing. And they didn't have the right spacesuits to do a space walk.

[@larryrich327]

This documentary was riveting, nailbiting cold sweat inducing , excellent work by these guys

[@trreb1]

I bought my first semi 3 months before this happened. The night before this my engine threw 2 rods out of the block and I ended up in Columbia, Mo at a hotel. I remember waking up the next morning and turned on the TV to the news and thought "Why are they showing footage of the Challenger?" then seen that it was Columbia. I, like most people, was in shock that it happened again. R.I.P. to the crew and peace for their families.

[@sdsmt99]

How did you confuse footage of Challenger and Columbia? The incidents have no resemblance. Make up a better "look at me" story.

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

@@sdsmt99 lol They allways over-play their hand, don't they? 🤭

[@thepvporg]

Correction, the challenger crew was alive after the shuttle exploded, the cockpit where the crew were is a protected environment and despite it being now known that they survived, it is likely the impact with the ground (ocean) that killed the crew, so they knew for several minutes that they were going to die.

[@elizabethbrown8833]

💔🥀

[@Khaseenwar09]

Was it sabotage?Did the crew see something

[@JimMac23]

@@Khaseenwar09 No, it wasn't sabotage. The Challenger had faulty o rings, and they came apart after the liftoff. After that the o rings were replaced with better ones on future flights.

[@SpeedbirdConcordeOne]

The shuttle assembly did not actually explode but rather disintegrated under extreme aerodynamic forces. However, your point about the integrity of the crew compartment is indeed correct. Rather a terrifying prospect.

[@theblackwidowchronicles]

15:46 That's not true at all. There was no fault with the O-ring seals on the boosters, it was simply too cold to launch hence the reason they didn't seal properly as designed. This was a 100% preventable disaster.

[@jimamizzi1]

This video has left me with more questions than answers

[@jessicaregina1956]

Obviously a major malfunction

[@leelunk8235]

IT WAS A GOOD VIDEO

[@maskcollector6949]

I mean so does 9/11 and the Titanic, they all have something in common.

[@leelunk8235]

@@maskcollector6949 911 WAS DONE BY THE US GOVT. HUMANS NEVER SET FOOT OB THE MOON

[@LoociferZ]

It's funny how this documentary has more information than I haven't already heard in the 20 years since the disaster. I'd like to know about how Nasa had more information than I've seen in a bunch of other documentaries. I keep getting more and more pieces...

[@Phonesavanh-dd7oh]

I saw live on challenger in 86 when I was 8.. than I saw live again on this . Wow

[@drlisa3]

I was 14. I recall it as if it was yesterday. To see this in '03 was tragic.

[@Mysasser1]

Same I'm 45 now.

[@AstronomerRob]

I'm the Oldest 👨‍🦯 I was 21 😁 I was working swing shift, so was in bed sleeping 😴 My friend called me and said The Shuttle just blew up! A known fibber, I said Yeah Right 😅 He said turn on the TV..... 😱😢😭

[@RandyBaumery-s4i]

I used to work in the thermal Protection Systems Department of Martin Marietta Michoud, and they always preached about the quality of the foam and the dangers of the foam coming off. I really saw why on that day! I am happy to say that it is unlikely that I worked on that foam of that tank since I was probably laid off long before that tank was ever manufactured.

[@stu4392]

300 million dollars to pick up debris but wouldn't spend a couple of million to take a photo from a military satellite that without NASA most likely wouldn't be up there.

[@cmt51597]

So many short-sighted decisions. With the horizon oil platform disaster they tried to save around $100,000 by not testing the cement. It ended up costing billions. As a basis of comparison it costs around $250,000 / day to operate an offshore oil rig.

[@allancerf9038]

Great point.

[@arthorse6835]

I thought the exact same thing- their lives were not worth that attempt?

[@KhaledKhaled-lm7yo]

Un accident de la fusée NASA Speciale dû a une incompétence des ingénieurs americains ...etc...Il faut d'abord prendre des essais par des animaux, en particuliers des chiens et des singes et autres animales...

[@JimMac23]

A photo wouldn't have helped. There was no way that the astronauts could have repaired a huge hole in the aluminum wing.

[@peytwonfrancino]

The title made me immediately think of the Challenger, something so simple as a rubber ring that took so many intelligent lives including a school teacher. These are some of our lead scientists doing this work trying to prepare for the worst when theres still so much thats unknown about the environment they are planning for. Living my entire life in the "rocket city" surrounded by von Braun accomplishments, i really enjoyed this video.

[@AUTOTUB3]

Sorry to hear the loss of so many families. Being a astronaut is scary and risky. My condolences to the families. 😞

[@ferdyspears]

That email sent to Rick and Willie is infuriating. So much dismissal of what was a major issue. NASA really dropped the ball.

[@isabellem2527]

it's so stupid that something bad always has to happen before we can do something about it. I know that's how we learn, but when you think about it, it's sad to think this way

[@bigronmedia159]

Trial and error

[@doublecell966]

Nothing in space is bothering me so I don't need to bother it. That's just me respectfully.

[@symrob1306]

We don't learn much, how many times when we think something can't happen, it happens ? Titanic wasn't supposed to sink but it did. And a lot of others tragedies happened which weren't supposed to happen. The fire inside the Mont Blanc tunnel, etc. And at that time they think: insolation mousse breaking the carbon fiber isn't suppose to happen but it does.

[@misterb3577]

Every modern-day safety regulation was written in blood.

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

Theycould've done somthing, but didn't. It's sad NASA hired incompetent people like that .

[@maximezehraoui5222]

Une traduction audio des personnes qui parle autre que le français aurais été la bienvenue. Documentaire très intéressant cela dit.

[@Lee-mx5li]

Phenomenal job on video!! Thank you.. RIP cew ❤❤❤❤❤😢

[@songbyrd5]

Challenger explosion did not kill the crew. Veteran astronauts have testified that the crew was alive all the way down to the ocean.

[@meg4458]

This has been a known fact for years. Thanks for trying though.

[@Peter-w4s1e]

There's a photo of them in their old age

[@urekmazino6800]

Not all of them

[@sharondasykes2101]

​@@Peter-w4s1ethat's fake the family members would know they living

[@sydneyallen8820]

The part that confuses me about that is how did they survive the explosion though?

[@eduardo31000]

15:57 Je tiens à apporter une précision: Challenger n'a pas explosé mais s'est désintégré. C'est bel et bien un nuage que l'on voit et non pas une explosion (hormis les boosters). Il a d'ailleurs été mentionné que l'équipage n'est donc pas mort à T+72 et que les airpacks ont été utilisé plus de 2min après l'incident. On peut considérer que l'équipage a perdu conscience suite à la dépressurisation et que cela leur a été fatal.

[@cusoonmyfriend3738]

ouais sauf qu'aucun des "acteurs" de challenger n'est mort ...il est facile de trouver des infos sur tous les membres ...il suffit de chercher.

[@sambott1029]

@@BadApple42 Bonsoir @Bad Apple42, comme @cusoonmyfriend3738 j'ai visionné le reportage dont il parle, et qui porte sur le devenir des astronautes de Challenger, dès lors que j'en ai pris connaissance, je serais vraiment malhonnête de médire sur les propos que rapportent @cusoonmyfriend3738, car la vidéo en question est plus 'qu'édifiante' ! Je vous invite donc à la regarder. Attention, il s'agit-là de Challenger, et non pas de Columbia. J'espère que vous la retrouverez, bonne visu !

[@denisjehan1157]

tu peux me donner tes "infos", je crois les avoir croisé tous les 7 chez Aldi hier ! Pauvre gland, tu imagines, tu es assis sur 900 tonnes de poudre et hydrogène liquide qui te pète au cul à une vitesse supersonique !!! Abruti.

[@vovoreveque2274]

@@cusoonmyfriend3738 Je confirme ! D'ailleurs , ils n'ont pas étaient trés loin pour pour changer de nom car,ils les ont gardés pour la plupart

[@cusoonmyfriend3738]

bien content de croiser quelqu'un qui sait réfléchir et sortir de sa condition de golem, merci.Oui on arrive à un tel niveau de stupidité de la population qu'ils n'ont même plus besoin de se cacher.C'est tout bonnement ahurissant @@vovoreveque2274

[@PorshaEd]

I’ll never forget this; feb 1, 2003 was my 16th birthday. I remember how this made me sad. Feb 1 is a happy day for me, and for their families it’s a sad day

[@thomasbrunn4182]

death and sadness cares for only what's to be

[@chrystalp3086]

We have the same birthday friend

[@tonamg53]

NASA went from “failure is not an option” to “there’s nothing we can do” which was really sad to see…

[@winterrose9658]

This documentary was really good. Explained everything I remember seeing this all over the news. Then to hear that this had happened before in the 80s: blew my mind! How could this happen twice?

[@Infinite-void908]

Because of the failure of NASAʼs organizational system.

[@DiabolicalAngel]

I remember this so well. Tragic.

[@tatianaromonov1416]

not really

[@tatianaromonov1416]

just a few earthlings

[@2BachShakur]

So much damage control from NASA officials in this video. Phrases like “Oh we didn’t know how serious it was” and “No one could’ve imagined what was to happen” all rub me the wrong way. Why in the hell did they willingly refuse to take a photo from a satellite, even when granted permission from the military? Because ignorance is bliss. They knew.

[@ManuelFlores-oe2wf]

Even if they could see any damage, what could they do? Just curious if there were any feasible options to rescue these guys

[@2BachShakur]

@@ManuelFlores-oe2wf I honestly doubt it. They mention in the video that it would’ve just put more lives at risk and I agree with this statement. Where I take issue is when they start denying knowledge of how doomed they were.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

What I found really disgusting at the time was that the Nasa Administrator making official statements about the accident while the investigation was still ongoing. Even worse, he was all angry about the people who were investigating foam impact as a possible cause and was publicly disparaging them, calling them "foam-heads". The "foam-heads" wound up being right and it was proven through live testing on actual shuttle components. They had a spare wing leading-edge and when they fired a piece of foam at it at 500 MPH, it punched right through. Bammo, major controversy put to rest. The administrator should've been fired and lost a quarter of his retirement as a penalty for his assinine behavior. As far as I was concerned, he was guilty of tampering with the investigation through use of illegal command influence (it's a charge that has taken down a good number of military commanders, either when trying to get somebody exonerated who is guilty or trying to jam up somebody who is innocent).

[@jenniferbell5482]

There was no way to do a rescue of them even if they took photos from a satellite. What could they so other than tell them they had no chance of returning home alive. I would have given the families solace though to at least be able to say goodbye.

[@Canev821]

Didn’t a Soyuz dock with a USA spaceship during the Cold War

[@denisjehan1157]

Comme à chaque fois, argent, carrière, argent, contrat.... L'équipage était condamné, et le mensonge de la Nasa à son égard est intolérable. Aucune leçon n'avait était retenue suite à l'explosion de Challenger, qui était là un véritable crime, puisque en 1986, l'équipage n'avait aucune chance de survivre au décollage à cause du froid. A l'époque, Roger Boisjoly, ingénieur chez Morton Thiokol, qui fabriquait les booster à poudre, avait tout fait pour empêcher le décollage, car il savait que les joints des boosters ne rempliraient pas leur fonction vu les températures trop basses. Malgré l'aide d'Allan Mc Donald qui avait refusé de signer l'autorisation de décollage, Challenger avait bien sur explosé. Le mieux, c'est que les responsables se sont vus promus, alors que Boisjoly a été mis au placard comme Mc Donald dans une moindre mesure peut-être.

[@sebastienberengercoulibaly8879]

Hummmm ce monde ! Il est répugnant 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Ninjaskillervshayabusa]

Oui bienvu ils sont toujours en vie pour la fusse challenge oui

[@denisjehan1157]

@@Ninjaskillervshayabusa que racontes tu comme connerie, tu crois encore que la terre est plate ?

[@JohnMordok-rk5kr]

Un documentaire détaillé faite par des étudiants allemand a retrouvé 6 des 7 personnes de l'équipe de 1986 , fait tes propres recherches avant de dire qu'on es dit des conneries !

[@denisjehan1157]

Et visiblement, tu es assez con pour croire un doc', qui te présente 6 rescapés sur les 7 de Challenger qui a explosé. C'est cela, donc, Christa McAuliffe, elle continue à faire l'école ou elle est en retraite ? Sais-tu la quantité de carburant dans une navette, sais-tu la consommation par seconde ? En gros, la navette bouffe 14 tonnes par seconde, elle emporte env 1900 tonnes de carburant. Au moment de l'explosion, il en restait env 900..... Pauvre gland.

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

it wasn't so much the foam, but managements failure to check for damage that actually caused the crash. Gross negligence.

[@bluejones747]

I saw the exact moment it broke apart. I was standing on by back porch, Athens. Texas, telling my son to come inside. He was hitting his metal baseball bat against a wooden post making a loud sound that reverberated. I saw him hit the post once more and a huge sound again rang out. I saw immediately an explosion of white smoke in the clear January blue sky, and pieces of something falling down followed by white smoke. I yelled to my son who was 11 at the time and yelled at him, What in the heck did you just do?!!! Why that was the first thing I yelled out, I don't know, but it scared him.

[@366Gli]

It could be expected that a lump of foam would be so soft that it would not damage anything. But at an impact at several hundred MPH chunks of foam become very energetic and lethal. The prime job of the tiles that covered the wing surface,was to provide fantastic thermal insulation. As the ship reenters , their outer surface gets very hot ( a thousand degrees or more) due to the compression as the air hits the outside and the friction as that air rubs against the surface. Those tiles do a fantastic job of keeping the aluminum structure of the ship reasonably cool during the 20 minutes or so time of the reentry. The tiles thermal conductivity has to be very minimal. To make that low the tiles had to be made of a felt made of thin fibers of a low conducting materiel. A material of that nature would have very low strength and elasticity. With hindsight maybe the wing should have had an additional layer of thermal insulation or a heat resisting steel leading edge. These suggestions would have added weight.

[@FenianAn1mal]

yap yap yap, but you truly have no fkin idea what you are talking about. try googling what the TPS system on the orbiters was actually made of before commenting.

[@chezman3892]

You have a few facts off man. First off it was not tiles that were damaged on Columbia but the reinforced carbon carbon on the leading edge of the shuttles wings. Also the tiles were not made of felt fibers but were actually made of porous silicon, the tiles were glued to a felt cover on the shuttle. The carbon carbon leading edges were very strong but every material has its limits. The fact that NASA did no studies after seeing so many foam strikes shows how badly they "normalized" issues that should have raised concerns.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

@@FenianAn1mal Take it easy, Karen.

[@wharris7594]

HOAX 100 PERCENT

[@michaelfreeland2791]

Who cares about your opinion. Next...

[@HeathInClearLake]

Nasa, Apollo era, "We're getting the home." NASA, shuttile era, "its probably too difficult to try, we don't want to risk 7 people to try to save 7." Men were different in the 60s. Failure wasn't an option.

[@FenianAn1mal]

lol this is easily in the top 10 of dumbest comments in this video

[@TheHipHopolypse]

@@FenianAn1maliknr? Here we are watching this beautiful documentary about the Columbia space shuttle disaster, and this guy is talking about real estate 😂😂😂

[@nikolaskraven2323]

Imagine if a rescue mission with a second shuttle had been launched and had been successful. Would have been one of the most epic achievements of mankind.

[@crankychris2]

Even by taking all available shortcuts the next launch would have taken 5 weeks. The risk of failure was over 50%. It just couldn't be done.

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

NASA actually came across this scenario 15 years prior: STS-27, 1988, a chunk of foam from external tank impacted the shuttle, and the crew were informed that their chance to surviving reentry is low, but the foam impacted a point that was holding an antenna which blocks extreme heat from entering Atlantis wing and thus saving all 5 asttonauts onboard

[@westnblu]

The difference between the Challenger disaster and Columbia was significant. With the Challenger disaster lessons were learnt particularly as regards to the O rings and their susceptibility to weakness in very cold weather. The Columbia disaster on the other hand showed a fundamental flaw in the very design of the space shuttle , something which was overlooked right from the get go. Foam falling from the main booster rocket and striking the space shuttle was a common occurrence on lift off. It happened so often over the decades it became routine to the point that not much significance was paid to it. U can actually see tiles missing from various space shuttles on their return to Earth. The common perception amongst many was well.. it's only foam right? what possible danger can foam pose to the shuttle and the crew? How wrong they were. It was only after the Columbia accident that tests were performed which showed in fact foam falling and striking the space shuttle can indeed prove fatal. The foam which hit Columbia was larger than what was anticipated and hit a vulnerable part of the undercarriage of the left wing allowing plasma to penetrate it on reentry. It really was only luck a Columbia type disaster didn't happen decades earlier. What's particularly eerie was the video showing the crew preparing for reentry was not a live stream by NASA but a hand held recorder from a fellow astronaut which survived the reentry and was found in a paddock in working order.

[@60sgalesburgerrfan]

Did anyone ever consider wrapping the tank in a fine nylon or similar net to contain the foam???

[@BlackMageSam]

​@@60sgalesburgerrfanNylon netting? Lol at that temperature?

[@tonywillans7556]

Fine mesh would probably have been ripped off given the velocity of the shuttle after lift off and before the tank was jettisoned.

[@tonywillans7556]

@@BlackMageSam the tank doesn't come back.

[@60sgalesburgerrfan]

If not nylon metal, and if pulled tight it would slightly penetrate the foam and be protected. Too late to think about it, but when NASA did, they usually made things work.

[@ceciledonnet6467]

Vraiment intéressant. Franchement, on voit bien que ça aurait pu ne pas finir si tragiquement, l'excuse avancée c'est "yavait jamais eu de problème avant "! Mais on voit bien ici que la Nasa savait que la navette était endommagée et ils n'ont rien fait pour tenter quelque chose, ils ont juste dit c'est un problème technique, pas de sécurité, c'est triste pour ceux qui y ont perdu la vie et leurs familles, on sait que de telles missions ne sont pas sans risques mais dans ce cas, l'erreur se paye cher car elle est due à une véritable nonchalance, comme quoi, il ne faut jamais être sûr de rien..😢

[@ilronin804]

Qu'est-ce qu'ils auraient pu faire ?

[@ceciledonnet6467]

@@ilronin804 tenter quelque chose pour agir directement...

[@myriamdelemme4369]

Comme quoi, quand l'HOMME se croit super-intelligent, que tout est PARFAIT, qu'il ne peut rien entraver sa 'construction' quelconque ???!!!

[@denton1000]

​@@ceciledonnet6467envoyer une autre navette avec des dépanneurs???

[@ceciledonnet6467]

@@denton1000 il aurait surtout fallu ne pas prendre ça à la légère et prévenir l'équipage, plutôt que de les mettre devant le fait accompli, il y avait sûrement des autres solutions à chercher plutôt que de se dire que tout devrait bien se passer, il faudrait prevoir une possibilité de sauvetage dans de tel cas car ils risquent quand même leur vie et il n'y a pas de moyen de tenter de les sauver si ça tourne mal😥

[@jean-jacquescortes9500]

Pour Challenger, les astronautes n’ont pas tous péri au moment de l’explosion mais lors du crash dans l’océan.

[@jacyves831]

Tu crois? ils étaient assis sur plusieurs milliers de litres d'hydrogène et d'oxygène liquides quand Challenger a pété. Les réservoirs n'étaient pas pleins, c'est vrai, mais il restait encore du coco dedans bien après que les boosters à poudre soient largués... Et justement, c'est parce qu'ils n'étaient pas encore largués que la navette à pété. Sérieux, ça m'étonnerait qu'ils n'aient pas tous été tués sur le coup. L'explosion qu'ils ont du encaisser, c'était pas celle que provoque le réservoir d'essence d'un scooter alors qu'on en est à 10 mètres

[@jean-jacquescortes9500]

@@jacyves831certaines des bouteilles d’oxygène de secours ont été percutées et partiellement consommées.

[@lesliegriffiths8567]

O-rings: "Nah, there's always some erosion, no biggie" Insulating foam: "Nah, chunks are always coming off, no biggie"

[@mikaelkaris9273]

Thanks Dave again for great info video. Mikael from Finland 🇫🇮

[@malikabelghiti5008]

Pour l´amour de la science, quel sacrifice!!!

[@HubertPetremann-oy6th]

Dans l aviation et le nucléaire ons ne compte pas les morts des pioniers

[@fab92n15]

​@@HubertPetremann-oy6th c'est la vie

[@jamesbroady3604]

Incredible documentary. Sorry for the losses.

[@m4st3rm1nd9]

Day 2 NASA knew everyone is going to die because of the hole in the wing. But they didn’t do anything to save them.

[@ramadaMC]

saving is easier to say then do its not like they send a fire truck to your house to extinguish a fire in your home...they need to go in outer space... they were the moment debris hit the wing

[@mikealvord55]

Don’t be an ass

[@dorisboucher2450]

They never got off the elevator

[@roberthenry9319]

@@dorisboucher2450 ?????????????

[@JimMac23]

@@dorisboucher2450 More conspiracy theory junk.

[@richardbaker7557]

myself and several other men were at a safety meeting in Navada when we watched the shuttle come in and burn up as it crossed the sky, it came from the west going south east, it was a very pretty site as the color was a pretty blue and had a trail that followed way behind....truly unbelivable....it was only later that we found out that the shuttle had burned up....i say this in a kind way but they truly went out in a blaze of glory.....god rest there souls.....

[@metaltradesmachine8910]

I live in Johnson county, TX. south of Fort Worth and I have a story to tell. About a month or so BEFORE this happened, I was in my front yard running the weed eater and I had a daydream or "lost time" episode as follows: I saw the space shuttle pass overhead, way up. Thought nothing of it; it was common in those days. A second or two later, a missile came into view, catching up to the shuttle. Big one, like a Patriot. It exploded, and the shuttle was badly damaged and rolled over upside down. Now the wierd part: The cargo bay doors opened or blew off, and out fell a WHITE CHEVY PICKUP WITH A WHITE CAMPER SHELL. The wreck was low enough by this time that I could see and identify it clearly. Almost like my vision was zoomed in. That was the end of the daydream or whatever it was. I know the technical details may not add up, but I remember it vividly even now, many years later. That doesn't happen with a normal dream. I have only spoken of this in a personal setting up till now and only one person has taken me seriously.

[@deb3670]

I live very close to you... I believe you ♥️

[@jamesadams893]

Hahahahahahaha good joke I mean dream, what happened to the black Chevy pickup with a black camper shell

[@davidaugustofc2574]

I wouldn't take it seriously, impressed by the dreaming abilities tho

[@wez492]

Since it's inception , Falling foam has always been something NASA engineers have contended with ..

[@ilokivi]

Astonished and horrified that NASA went to such lengths as redeploying a military satellite and software analysis of ground-based video footage to avoid an EVA visual inspection of the wing in order to establish whether it had in fact been damaged by foam impact. Without any such capability, when damaged a safe return would not be possible. Unfortunately for the crew, NASA chose absence of evidence. The crew paid with their lives. Deeply saddening.

[@daveworthing2294]

Wouldn't have made any difference. No way to fix the damage.

[@thetowndrunk988]

@@daveworthing2294This. Idk why people think it’s like a ship floating in the ocean. The ONLY possibility would have been to scramble Atlantis for a quick launch (extremely dangerous in itself), pray it didn’t suffer the same damage (as there wouldn’t have been any time to address the issue), and hope more people didn’t die on a Hail Mary. People act like space rockets just sit there, ready to launch at a moments notice. Typically, they’re stored without any fuel or boosters (for obvious reasons), and there are months of prep work and inspections involved. It’s not a fire truck. You can’t just slide down the pole and jump in.

[@maskcollector6949]

They can't cover it up with evidence...

[@Canev821]

What about a Soyuz

[@tonywillans7556]

@@thetowndrunk988 It just shows how flawed the shuttle system was. Talking big with 60 flights per year, when they couldn't get one every 3mths.

[@johnlorenz4190]

The Shuttle Orbiter itself has never failed. The SRB with Challenger destroyed the vehicle. The ET failed, destroying Columbia. The Orbiter was fragile, of course. But, without the other component failure, The Shuttle would still be flying.

[@easternyellowjacket276]

This is true. It was always the lift system that had problems/failures. Not the shuttle itself.

[@cmt51597]

Interesting point, but without the SRB and ET, the shuttle could not achieve orbit. In the documentary it states that around 70-80% of thrust on take-off/ initial ascent comes from the SRBs. Given this, although separate components, they were designed to work as one integrated unit. They tried their best to apply learnings from the X-15, but the Shuttle could not use Inconel. They faced extremely tough engineering challenges with those 1500 F temperatures. I wonder if they could do more with slowing the descent rate like more banking and a slower and longer reentry. I'm sure there are good reasons why not. Some say humans are not meant to go to space. Maybe they have a point, but I believe that is our destiny. We have much more to learn about physics and aerodynamics. Perhaps in coming decades there will be major breakthroughs in material science and aeronautics, assisted by AI and then we'll say "ah ha". I wonder if it's possible to have some kind of laser bubble or shield like the hypothetical Star Trek Enterprise has. Maybe something with magnetism. What can resist that plasma? As they say at those speeds molecules are torn apart. We need to find better ways to shield the heat shield. We need at least dual-layers and a more redundant approach.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

​@@cmt51597 assisted by AI 🤮

Impossible d'oublier.. Ces images son graver dans nos mémoires,comme celles du 11 septembre. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jameswulzen590]

I remember seeing the craft coming apart during reentry feeling so sad about the end result, so sad indeed, the loss a a fine team and family members being able to see the end result must have been terrible. R.I.P. gallant crew.

[@jamieevans6395]

Awesome documentary 👍👍

[@Defender78]

it is a great docu on the Columbia, but sheesh what a bleak and badly written video title!!

[@pinkharrier47]

It wasn't the tiles that failed. It was the carbon carbon leading edge of the left wing that was breached by briefcase sized piece of foam that hit it at a relative speed of 550mph (850kph) carrying great kinetic energy.

[@HobbyOrganist]

yet they said the carbon fiber was basically indestructable, but that's on earth at room temperature not in the vacuum of space and -300 degrees or whatever!

[@pinkharrier47]

@@HobbyOrganist it was 20 to 25kms high. Cold, but not -300C

[@pinkharrier47]

Plus possible friction warmth.

[@Lou-eye]

Management's always screw the working employee, safety of no concern to them just $$$$

[@davidaugustofc2574]

​@@HobbyOrganist it was between 65-85 seconds after launch, why make up such bs?

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

What a shame. I still remember this as if it were yesterday. The people at NASA probably have never studied basic physics. Any 12 year old could have told them that F=M x A2. Any physics undergrad could have explained the effect of an accelerating object, that even a very light object can strike and destroy anything in its path. What really makes me mad is that this foam separation had happened on many occasions in the past. Reinforced carbon fractures with impact more readily than they thought. They had never tested this resistance, or lack thereof, of carbon fiber to impact involving a small object weighing essentially a ton, or two. What were they thinking, or not? Their mistake was to trust management. To trust the engineers that were oblivious to the Laws of basic, Newtonian physics. RIP heroes.

[@romabatala]

You are right they never did. Nasa is bigger than Bollywood, most of them I heard are actors😅

[@andrewwilson4897]

You mean E = M x V^2

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

@@andrewwilson4897 No, I mean F=m x a. The energy is a derivative of force, which is the ability to do work, which is the ability to exert a force resulting in displacement of an object. The defining variables are mass and acceleration. Caused by energy dissipation as the fragment detached accelerated and struck the wing.

[@andrewwilson4897]

@@nicolaskrinis7614 , if you meant F=MA, perhaps you should not have written F=MA2 in your original post?

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

@@andrewwilson4897 Are you done now? Is there something too arcane for you?

[@Carolina-uf2ip]

The millions they didn’t want to spend on checking out the Columbia in space, then spent 300 million spent on search

[@erg0sum17]

Très bon documentaire. Cet équipage aurait-il pu être sauvé, par exemple par le lancement d’une navette de sauvetage ? Un excellent article dans Ars Technica publié il y a quelques années montre que non. Dès les premières minutes cet appareil et son équipage étaient condamnés. Doomed!

[@scz1770]

They said so in the documentary. No rescue shuttle could've gotten there in time before Columbia's oxygen ran out.

[@tarafficstory]

Decide the language of the lecturer, the French gaps are so annoying

[@cassandrahenry]

👏🏽👏🏽

[@afonphoenix16]

Imagine being angry other languages exist in the world.🤦🤦

[@tarafficstory]

@@afonphoenix16 it's not what I said. Silly

[@afonphoenix16]

@@tarafficstory "Having to listen to another language annoys me." That is LITERALLY what you said. Unless they're annoying for some other reason, it sounds like it's because they're not in English.🙄🤦

[@tarafficstory]

@afonphoenix16 No, it is not what I said at all. It is annoying because it changes from one language to another so I can listen sometimes and never know if there will be part to read subtitles. I speak a few languages (I'm not English native) but not very good at French. So it hurts when it swaps. I said gaps are annoying and not the existence of the French language. If I'm set to read subtitles all the time, it is also fine as long as it is consistency there. Hope that is now clear what I ment

[@DatRedBoy242]

As much as I love the Shuttle it was basically a space 737 Max

[@luc5798]

Dans un autre documentaire on voit l'étonnement des ingénieurs lors d'une reconstitution du choc de l'impact du bloc de mousse sur l'aile, lorsque effectivement ce choc produit un trou! Ils ne croyaient vraiment pas cela possible... Comme quoi il ne faut jamais penser tout savoir! Et quand on pense que chaque vol de cette navette, c'était jouer avec le feu...

[@tftrainman]

Ill never forget this disaster. I was watching this unfold live on the tv at the fire dept with my dad, i immediately knew something wasnt right as soon as i saw the first piece of debris fall off the shuttle, then once it started breaking into larger section i knew for sure columbia was lost, i was so terribly sad. The space program specifically the shuttles had always sparked interest in me growing up and i hated to see anything happen to the brave men and women who partook in those missions.

[@Nine-Signs]

I will never understand how NASA didn't understand that things in motion increase in density on impact and that this might just cause an otherwise perfectly safe soft material to act like a fucking bullet. The space shuttle, most expensive and lethal/unsafe space vehicle ever produced.

[@haroldsanteliz6153]

Rest in Peace , Valiant Space Shuttle Crew , May God comfort Your Families , we recognize your Courage and dedication , Rest In Peace you Valiant Men and Women , May your Families be Comforted, God bless you Guys You will never be Forgotten.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@FenianAn1mal]

p sure they would be vomitting in the afterall from this, if there were such a thing.

[@iamvampyrnow]

and here i thought space was fake, i was so blind. Thank you for your service to humanity, seriously, thank you

[@KNT.63]

Think about this the Sr 71 goes Mac III the skin of the airplane heats up to about 500 degrees have you seen what the jet looks like? you think that the space shuttle shaped like that really went that fast and all the decals an the paint stayed on it did not burn off,?

[@iamvampyrnow]

@@KNT.63 no I don't think that I was being sarcastic

[@cherylb2008]

A gamble to send them Could not rescue them it’s that simple Those astronauts are very intelligent people They risk their lives for space exploration Very courageous people They are even more intellectually aware of the dangers

[@cmt51597]

Yes, from what I've read, the fatality rate of human space travel still sits at around 2%.

[@Despond]

@@cmt51597 And this is just around our planet. Imagine interstellar travels, all the debris, black holes, gamma bursts, shuttle degradation, biologically survivng etc. It's a full landmine and one day the scary fact is whether we can travel at near light speed or not, we will have to send everything we have and just hope because our time is limited on this planet.

[@chandioanwar1231]

My Dearest Astronauts - we will never forget your Great Sacrifice for humanity and mankind. Love you we will always remember you.

[@nenblom]

May the crew of the Columbia tragedy RIP. ❤❤ I’ve been to both the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Seeing those two incredible places was a dream come true for me. In addition, for extra icing on the cake, I saw Atlantis out on the launchpad.

[@EricWood-tm3oq]

I was almost 3 years old and was living in Nacogdoches when the shuttle exploded back in 2003. My dad and sister heard the explosion, and my grandfather actually saw in the sky the explosion. They also found a piece of debris from the shuttle that broke through the roof of the optometrists office where my grandmother worked. It’s been 21 years now, and it’s so sad to think that something like this could happen… my heart breaks for the families and friends of the astronauts who were killed that day 😢

[@taraatkins4823]

Nasty nac

[@gshadow90]

Idk if i can still get in trouble, but i still have a couple of stuff from the debri that i picked up while playing with friends. It's a pen, a pair of broken sunglasses, and 3 buttons with the letters "EN1, " "BUE," and "ES," i assume from some sort of machine on board.

[@Alex-xy5rf]

C'est triste ( après coup ) de ne pas avoir pris vraiment au sérieux cette impacte de cette mousse .. Car 7 personnes était en jeux quand même ...! Donc tout le monde est responsable surtout ceux qui décide de ne pas faire cette photos ...!

[@cusoonmyfriend3738]

ce qui est en jeu c'est la capacité des goyims à croire en cette énième arnaque ...

[@thetowndrunk988]

What possible good would have came from taking the photos? They would have had to scramble Atlantis for a fast launch (which is never safe), pray it didn’t experience the exact same issue (since there certainly wouldn’t have been time address it), and hoped that it didn’t kill even more people. You’re not rescuing people off a cruise ship. They’re in space.

[@Gree043]

Un peu d'accord avec @thetowndrunk988 pour le coup, même si ils avaient pris les clichés permettant d'avoir vision sur le problème, ils n'avaient semble-t-il pas beaucoup de solution réaliste pour vraiment changer l'issue qui les attendaient.. :-/ A part une mission sauvetage improvisée à faible chance de succès qui aurait non seulement coûté une fortune mais qui aurait obligatoirement été menée dans la précipitation engendrant avec elle son lot de problèmes.

[@thetowndrunk988]

@@Gree043 Unfortunately, KZbin translate isn’t working, so I have no idea what you’re saying. Either way, it was an unfortunate event, that could have been avoided with better diligence on the ground, but once they were in space, they were pretty much doomed. It’s not like they carried around spare materials to fix the hole, and as I said in my previous post, launching Atlantis fast enough to save them just simply wasn’t remotely possible in reality.

[@Gree043]

@@thetowndrunk988 No worries :-) ! Actually I said I was agree with you and that there wasn't much NASA could realistically do in order to save the crew once they were in space.

[@j-fb4596]

Dang dude, That's some straight stockton rush material

[@bernardsicard1991]

Je fus horrifié par cette catastrophe. Espérons que l'équipage n'eut pas le temps de souffrir. Paix à leurs âmes et pensées à leurs familles. De cette tragédie découle une pensée qui me turlupine depuis longtemps: et quid des milliers d'objets divers qui sont satellisés autour de notre planète? Ne sont-ce pas des projectiles en puissance? Sachant que le plus petit de ces objets peut provoquer des catastrophes similaires, voyant aujourd'hui des stations spatiales passer au dessus de nos têtes, autant de risques pour les populations, autant d'épée de Damoclès, autant de nouvelles catastrophes à venir et que fait à ce propos les pays sensés maîtriser la découverte spatiale? J'espère que la réponse n'est pas un silence assourdissant ! La récupération de ces débris n'est-elle pas devenue la priorité, le véritable challenge ultra-prioritaire? Notre proche domaine spatial n'est-il pas de notre responsabilité? N'y a t'il pas assez de gabegie sur Terre pour recommencer ailleurs ce que nous ne maîtrisons pas sur notre "belle bleue"? Je commence à comprendre les hésitations de nos voisins galactiques à officialiser leur présence dans une poubelle à ciel ouvert ! Ceci étant une pointe d'humour afin de dédramatiser une situation où nous risquons de prendre l'horizon sur la gueule. La puissance d'un pays se mesure t'elle au nombre de déchets parsemés ici et là ?

[@JohnMordok-rk5kr]

Est tu horrifié par les civils mort dans les guerres ?

[@leSnakounet]

C tro long le com on a lu que la première ligne

[@mabiteahungout9246]

Parle pour toi surtout si tu lis aussi bien que t'écris !

[@mabiteahungout9246]

C'est évidemment un gros risque mais c'est économiquement impossible de nettoyer tout ça.

[@bernardsicard1991]

@@mabiteahungout9246 preuve que nous sommes encore au stade de " l'apprenti-sorcier".

[@Kerry-G]

I wonder if the astronauts could have docked with the iss until help could arrive?

[@kingdomofcybercityanimations]

They couldn't because the space shuttle and ISS were on different orbital planes

[@Jeremy_the_bot]

Keep in mind all the fuel was spent getting up into orbit. The orbiter didn't have the fuel to get to the iss.

[@MounirZouaoui405]

Quand on voit ça, on se demande comment entre 1969 et 1972 les Amerloques seraient allés 6 ou 7 fois aller-retour sur la Lune ... Pourquoi depuis, ils n'y seraient pas retournés ?

[@ferouzben]

les américains n'ont jamais mis les pieds sur la lune c'est un mensonge

[@QS-si3cq]

Challenger did not "explode." Stop saying that. It disintegrated due to aerodynamic forces, and that is a very important difference. Details matter. It is lazy to say that it "exploded."

[@minerajans2109]

Mounir..aya gidildiği felan yok...

[@cm1133]

On this day back in 2003, I spent the day with my wife’s family. Her 23 year old cousin had passed away from a long battle with bone cancer. It was a sad day for sure.

[@Mahou11]

Just bumped into this amazing and sadful video on Sunday, April 28 2024. After watching a video on the Chinese President XI's last visit in the US, the KZbin algorithm suggested me this video. It's pretty informative and emotional as well. My prayers touch the beloved ones of these astronauts who unfortunately lost their lives in this incident. Thank you for uploading!

[@just2knowthetruth]

I often wonder why they didn't see, and recognize the problem and then proceeded to fixing it.. like Apollo13! They saw the problem, recognized the need for a solution and then went at it.. NASA should have told the crew and then got their collective asses together to solve the problem.. whether or not they sent a new shuttle or not they should have came together to solve it.. that crew deserved a team that was comparable to whom served Apollo.. they may have survived!

[@scz1770]

Even if they had sent another shuttle to transfer them onto, it couldn't have gotten there in time before their oxygen ran out. T

[@HypnoPol1499]

Good point. I agree.

[@joeshoe6184]

You are making pretty serious allegations here. About a situation you are almost completely ignorant of.

[@SnarkfishMan]

Thank you to the families

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Paul Wilde has some serious sunburn going on.

[@ChargersCity]

Love Y'all have a blessed night. Love Y'all forever. Blessings forever, beautiful GOD loves you forever, and Jesus loves you too forever. Teach everyone you know and don't know 😊

[@mosubekore78]

Space shuttle was too risky, fortunately they stopped the program

[@dyonn0610]

À cause d'un peu de mousse.... Mouai... Ça annonce la suite XD

[@MrSychnant]

Although NASA said it didn't tell the crew because it didn't want them to worry during the mission they COULD have told them before reentry so they could have tried to minimize the angle of attack on the damaged wing but they just said nothing and let them burn instead.

[@da40flyer]

Not true. The crew was notified on day 7 of the flight.

[@JimMac23]

The angle wouldn't have mattered. At that speed the badly damaged wing would have fallen off anyway.