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On Jan. 28, 1986, seven astronauts “slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.” America’s space program was never the same.

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36 Comments

  1. HO TUTTE LE ENERGIE IN FUSIONE QUINDI ANCHE SE LE ENERGIE CAMBIANO NON SOFFRO MAI-QUINDI CHI CHIEDE SOFFERENZA AVRÀ INDIETRO SOFFERENZA E FRA POCO MI CONNETTONO E SI RIBALTA LA SITUAZIONE-SUCCHIATEMI IL CAZZO-

  2. Fun fact: NASA actually planned to put big bird from sesame street on a space ship but unfortunately they found out that big bird was too big for the inside of the space ship so they decided to put a teacher on instead. Anyways, then the challenger exploded.

  3. Imagine being that one engineer who's integrity would not let him sign off on the launch, probably thinking to himself that his refusal would cost him his job. While it may not have been enough to save the lives of the crew, alteast he saved his own life. Now he can atleast live guilt free knowing he did the right thing.

  4. Pink Shirt when he gives permission to the crew to full throttle up and then almost immediately, an explosion, and the look on his face expresses it perfectly “I’ve just killed them all” I feel so terrible for that man

  5. Reminds me of my previous days at Raytheon and the engineers that replaced case hardened bolts with stainless steel ones just for the sake of cosmetics … in other words; just to look nice. This violated the specification and will put people in grave danger. I look back and only regret that I did not blow the whistle. If one day and there is a certain death of a young Air Force service technician… then it will then get to me. Meanwhile; there is a time bomb that sits and waits…..

  6. Here I sit in NOVEMBER 2021 and we finally have sent Americans on an American rocket back to space. Not on a NASA rocket though. I’m highly anticipating the launch of SLS as it sits fully stacked in the NASA VAB.

  7. I remember we watched this in 5th grade. It was made such a big deal because a teacher was on board…. They even had us all turn our outside lights on at home, we were told they would see it…..
    That ' malfunction' effed us up.

  8. I feel sorry for the engineers like Roger Boisjoly.
    Allan MacDonald refusing to sign the launch rational was really smart because if he did sign it then it's taking risks he shouldn't be taking.

  9. Ok they didn't listen to the experts about the temperature having to be at least 54 degrees so just look at the damage that did to the space shuttle launches.

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