The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster - Explained (Minute by Minute)

I truly believe that if this didn't happen, we'd have more normal people that would have gone to space by now, either through winning a raffle or something similar

Wait they didn’t have time to say anything did they?

As usual ‘ya can’t trust management.

"Point blank. A ice storm hit Florida and covered the shuttle with a coat of thick ice and made one of the O rings brittle and weak and NASA launched it without completely checking everything out to make sure all was a go , HASTE MAKES WASTE ! BET THE NEXT TIME THAT HAPPENS THEY WILL SCRUB THE LAUNCH AND DISMANTLE THE SPACECRAFT AND INSPECT EVERYTHING

Do some research! All crew of Challenger have been proven still living as of 7or8+years ago!

This is very eye opening. I thought the explosion killed the astronauts instantly....I can't believe they actually survived that initial explosion only to die a horrible and scary death.

Wasnt an explosion, shuttle broke apart due to aerodynamic forces, the fireball was simply that, a giant fireball, akin to throwing a match into a fire pit with gasoline in it, just a woof /ignition, explosion = pressurized boom, this was not that .

how does a channel with 14 mil subs get this so wrong?

This was a huge deal when it happened. I watched it live on TV. There was an attempt at a cover-up immediately after the accident as the engineers knew exactly what went wrong directly after the explosion. It could have and should have never happened.

Failure of management happened

Sooo.. It blew up. Why did that take a half an hour to say? JFC.

I respect the work put into this video but there is so much misinformation that contradicts proven data it is extremely disrespectful to those who lost their like lives. Don't try to "hollywood" or just outright make up content to get views 😔😏

Apparently they only had like 10-15 more seconds left on the SRBs until separation. The real stink of it.

One of these Vids on the disintegration of the Colombia Shuttle upon landing would be awesome. That specific Space Shuttle disaster is even more terrifying to me, one because I was a kid when it happened and because it’s probable that the crew compartment of the shuttle likely survived all the way to it’s crash into the ocean and the Astronauts were probably fully conscious for each terrifying second.

And those words “uh oh” have been removed from all videos!!

Half the speed of sound at mach 5...hmmm🤔...somethings not adding up here.....NM...heard it wrong.

i lived in titiusvil at that it is still planted in my brainl

Make it mandatory for a couple of the management personnel to fly along on shuttle missions.
It’ll be safe then.

January 28 1986 it happened!

The Challenger did NOT explode! It was destroyed by cataclysmic aerodynamic stresses that happened when the solid rocket booster securing struts failed. Please, try reading the official NASA investigation documents before spouting off with unsubstantiated claims. You'd think with 13M+ subscribers you'd know better.

That whole tragedy was traced back to a deteriorated and therefore unusable O-Ring. You know what they say. For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.

The incorrect grammar drove me insane. Learn some English.

Any automobile driver could’ve made that decision for NASA …

Who wants to go outside after last night’s ice storm and scrape ice off of their car for 20 minutes while it warms up and then drive down the road in slippery conditions … NO ONE !

I know it’s not a perfect analogy but it’s close.

Freezing temperatures and ice all over a massive $10B rocket seems like an easy decision to me. But what do I know ?

🤔🤔🤔😐😐😐🥲🥲🥲

how can that be right about the booster o rings failing to being over worked, the boosters were single use, only the shuttle was ever reused

jesus you make it seem like the explosion took 30 minutes to happen

The bodies of the crew were NOT found inside the capsule, as they incinerated when the explosion occurred. A human foot found on the nearby beach was determined to belong to one of the astronauts that perished.

i wonder if it was like the sub implosion where no one really felt anything because it was so quick that pain receptors didn't have time to react.

Lots of inaccurate and wrong information. Go watch NASA's analysis video if you want to know what really happened. Most "sources" always say it "exploded". But that's not what happened. It was high wind shear forces that tore it apart once the support arm burned through. The cloud was the cryogenic fuel and oxidizer suddenly hitting the atmosphere when the external tank was destroyed. It LOOKED like an explosion, but it wasn't.

Should read, Truth, Lies and O-rings which was very revealing

I was in fifth grade when this happened. They rolled the television into the classroom so we could all watch. I will never forget. This is what happens when management doesn't listen to the employees working under them. This is a crisis that never had to happen. I just hope the crew didn't feel any pain.

What about big bird

I absolutely remembered this day. I was in the 11th grade and that morning I was late for school. I was walking to my seat in my science class and all the students was looking at me but past me at the same time. And I was like "what." Then past my shoulder was the Challenger exploding on TV. I couldn't believe it. I will never forget that terrible day.

Every disaster is caused by someone not listening to a scientist for example climate change.

the best part: nobody in nasa was arrested and charged for incompetency.
Yay 🇺🇲

This isn’t entirely accurate, the O-ring seal did not fail because of wear and tear built up from reuse, the seal itself was poorly designed. Engineers at Thiokol, the aerospace company that developed the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle, noticed that given the right conditions the O-ring seal could fail. Those conditions were cold enough weather that would affect the effectiveness of the seal. Middle managers at Thiokol who got reports of the issue from the engineers did not report it to their bosses or just downplayed the severity. Well the day of the disaster, the challenger was out on the pad in the exact weather conditions engineers were concerned of.

very good documentary and study. keep posted those kind
videos in future

I was told challenger blew up because the crew didn't power down at MECO but it was a while ago can someone help me out here plz

I dont watch Infographs because all auto-generated and have too many errors and veer off topic.

I feel bad for Roger Boisjoly (engineer) that warned nasa that this would happen. But, of course no one listened to the little man in the back that knew what he was talking about.

why don't people on the ground tell them what's going on

why you could see the fire dummy's everyone can see it

What did NASA expect with a female pilot?

Was there a way to manually jettison the SRBs and/or the ET, either by the crew or mission control, in a situation like this?

I remember this tragedy.

Its really nice to know that Barbara Morgan did not back out after Christa McAuliffe died in the Challenger disaster and went on the STS-118 mission.

I had a family member who was involved in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster. My uncle by marriage was the Navy officer in-charge of the dive teams who went down to retrieve what could be salvaged of the wreckage.

The kiss of death!