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Posted: 6/22/2008 4:41:43 PM EST
I had heard some conspiracy theory type stuff a few years ago but the sources were sketchy websites that didn't seem credible
on Discovery channel's When We Left Earth show they just confirmed 3 of the astronauts turned on their air packs after the explosion. Although then they said they would have been unconscious when it hit the water due to it going up to 60000 feet before it started falling if they activated their air packs wouldn't they have stayed conscious? |
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Some of the air packs were apparently activated.
NASA never released the crew audiotape |
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I've heard it said that the screams could be heard over the mic set. I've also heard that one was still alive on the ground after impact, but just briefly. I'm not sure whether each of those two are a possiblity.
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There were reports that the crew cabin was intact after the explosion and thrown clear, if that is true than it is possable that some of the crew survived the initial explosion, but since the cabin would have been free falling I doubt they would have survived the impact.
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until they hit the water maybe then they would be dead anyways. look at air liners every one dies and I don't think they would be going as fast as the shuttle would be from falling from so high.
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The rumor around the place that I work is that some of the crew survived until they hit the water.
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I still remember crying when I watched it....
Christa McAuliffe's parents are watching... you hear their audio... everyone applauds the explosion- because they think it's a stage seperation that we've all seen before.... here's a 2nd view. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAzA6k-spnc CNN video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE "Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project. She was one of seven astronauts killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster." I bet she inspired a lot of girls to go into science. |
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Not likely - everything2.com/e2node/Negative%2520G-force en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force |
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There's a lot of bullshit out there purporting to be fact on this matter.
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They were.
Challenger didn't "blow up." It "broke up" from aerodynamic forces when it turned sideways. The crew cabin was relatively intact. |
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No, I don't. But I do remember watching Challenger blow up on live TV, in my morning History class (7th grade). Fuck anyone that made jokes about that crew. |
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this is from wiki, so take it for what it's worth
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NASA failed to build a recovery system for the crew compartment thinking it wouldn't matter anyway if it blew. Now they realize it would matter and don't want us to know how miserably they failed those poor people.
Guilty conscience, basically. |
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Yep, I was watching as it happened. It was the worst feeling. Also, I heard the sonic boom from Columbia in 2003. I was reading my newspaper when my brother called and said to turn on the TV. Just a minute or two earlier, I had heard the sonic boom and then on the TV were all those comet-like pieces of Columbia. I only hope that none of Challenger knew what happened, but Columbia, those folks had a pretty good idea what was going on. |
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Sorry, Dr. Sally Ride was not on the Challenger. That was Christa McAuliffe. |
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Google 'terminal velocity' |
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Any escape system that would have saved the Challenger crew would have been too heavy to launch into space. The escape systems that emerged from the Challenger breakup were stopgap feelgood bullshit that catered to the inexplicable American need to believe that putting people on the end of a giant missile and shooting them at the stars is a safe and routine practice. Much like strapping a man to a nitromethane burning hemi V8 and sending him down a track at 300+mph.. Someone sometime is going to buy the farm doing that shit. |
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Agreed. God bless our heroes, in plainclothes and uniforms, camo and spacesuits. |
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I was in Mrs. Baucum's 6th grade math class, I bet you I could walk to the exact spot in the room where I was sitting even 20 years later.
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thanks.. I'll correct it. |
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I was in 1st grade, watching it live. I remember they kept replaying it over and over and they finally turned off the tv |
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Agreed. I remember the jokes. Some sick fucks out there. |
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I think you're confusing Challenger with Columbia. |
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God damn. I don't agree with everything Reagan did, but he was a leader and a man who spoke eloquently and with sincerity. This country needs another leader like that. |
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I was sobbing watching the funeral and reagans speech definately moved me |
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Fourth Grade. I remember coming from the bathroom and hearing what sounded like crying coming from the A/V room. Looking through the glass I saw the footage being looped over, and over, and over. Ran back to class and got in trouble with the teacher for telling everyone the shuttle blew up. She thought I was fibbing....and I still wish I was.
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See, I was at school yhat day to and yes I like every other American felt that lump in their throat. And yes sorry to burst your bubble but there were alot of jokes that came from that and guess what,thats life. |
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+1 |
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Columbia burned up. He's right about Challenger; the explosion of the center fuel tank didn't tear it to pieces, it was the fact that it got sideways. Aerodynamic forces were too much. |
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That's pretty much what I remember NASA releasing after investigating the issue. |
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I won't watch it to this day because it was so overplayed by the media. My cousins husband worked for KTTV-11 in LA when it crashed, he said the constant replaying of the accident was a real bone of contention amongst the staff and crew vs station management. It's a well known fact that some of the crewmembers survived the initial breakup of the ship. |
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I was in 3rd grade, we were watching it in the school library. I remember the exact spot where I was sitting when it happened. I remember that I was reading a book about go-karts earlier in the day. Our class had written letters a couple weeks before.
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Gus Grissom after the Gemini 3 mission, March 1965 |
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Truth. |
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Yeah - as I understood it some turned on their air... but I think falling that far would cause you to pass out...
At any rate - once they hit the water it would be the same as hitting earth. I was in the 4th or 5th grade I think . I still have my weekly reader that has the article about it. An ejection seat isn't very feasible for such a craft. The whole premise of a shuttle was sort of a flawed idea (though the ability for it to take cargo up I think is good for specialized missions). BUT I still liked the shuttle program. The problem is there are 100000001 things on those ships and one too many oversights or flaws could end in catastrophe. But at the same time - all those involved know the risks. |
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Me too. My roomie went "BOOM!" about 30 seconds into flight, and I gave him and said it wasn't funny at all. Then it really did go BOOM, and I literally couldn't believe my eyes. I asked him if it was being re-played, but no - it was live. |
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Here's the official voice recorder transcript from NASA:
and here's the *hoax* after explosion transcript that floated around the internets...
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For the life of me, I can't understand why this is even an issue for people. The astronauts knew (and still know) what will happen if there is a catastrophic failure. No matter how good your engineering is, there are still some things that cannot be solved. One of those problems is how to save the lives of people on spacecraft if there is a complete failure.
These brave souls risked, and continue to risk, their lives in the belief that the risk is worth it relative to the contributions that they make to science and to the well-being of this country. I am profoundly proud of their sacrifice. Everything worth doing has a significant amount of risk associated with it. |
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Gallows humor is as old as humanity. As odd or as sick as it seems, ask any homicide detective, morgue worker or crime-scene cleaner if they partake. It's how people, odd or as tasteless as it can be, deal with issues of unspeakable horror or tragedy. |
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