Author Topic: 73 Seconds After Launch (Read 1558 times)

Gunslinger · « **on:** January 28, 2006, 11:45:29 AM »

20 Years ago today

Meatwad · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2006, 11:54:48 AM »

A sad day for everyone everywhere

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2006, 12:23:09 PM »

20 years!!?! wow time goes by, i still remember it very good, was watching
it live on TV. Seeing the explosion, it was a total shock. Traveling to Space
AND returning safe to earth is still not a usual bussines, for me this people
are pioneers.

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2006, 12:33:50 PM »

GhostFt: How were you watching it live? The only way to do so was with the satelline feed from NASA TV. Perhaps you were watching one of the many shows that covered the first minute of the launch, then panned away to a different story before hurredly coming back and showing the replay?

It's a common phenomena about the Challenger incident (which, despite the caption above, was not an explosion) that millions more remember seeing it 'live' than actually did because of how the media covered space back then.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2006, 12:40:41 PM »

at least they died doing something 99.9% of us can only imagine....

something inside of me still thinks to die in the persuit of incredible dreams is better than to live 1000 years doing nothing so incredible.

S!!! challenger crew, we still pray for your families.

edit: chairboy, maybe he was at the launch pad?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2006, 12:48:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
GhostFt: How were you watching it live? The only way to do so was with the satelline feed from NASA TV. Perhaps you were watching one of the many shows that covered the first minute of the launch, then panned away to a different story before hurredly coming back and showing the replay?

It's a common phenomena about the Challenger incident (which, despite the caption above, was not an explosion) that millions more remember seeing it 'live' than actually did because of how the media covered space back then.

I was 8 at the time and we were watching it live at school. I remember my teacher totally freaking out afterwords.

Eagler · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2006, 01:08:20 PM »

I saw the smoke trail from tampa - was in my truck on the way back to the office and thought it was the strangest looking launch trail I had ever seen

walked into the breakroom at the office to fnd everyone watching the tv .....

Wolfala · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2006, 01:41:57 PM »

Watched with mom on cable since they were the only ones carrying the launch live. Networks dumped it.

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2006, 01:43:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
GhostFt: How were you watching it live? The only way to do so was...

who cares, i was watching it on TV that time, and if it was not 100% live
i dunno, as far as i remember it was live. Some german TV stations up
to day sending live coverage from all the starts, NASA, ESA and so on.
Any more Question Chairboy ?

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2006, 01:51:30 PM »

NASA.GOV

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2006, 01:52:18 PM »

I remember it like it was yesterday.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2006, 02:06:09 PM »

Challenger Transcript

tapakeg · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2006, 06:33:15 PM »

A little known station called CNN was carrying it live at the time I remember reading.

Chairboy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2006, 07:12:17 PM »

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Originally posted by tapakeg
A little known station called CNN was carrying it live at the time I remember reading.

Back then, they were VERY little known. Few cable stations carried it, it didn't really get big until the Gulf War.

But you knew that and were just being silly, right?

Rolex · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2006, 07:31:13 PM »

Chairboy is correct that most people who saw it on TV were seeing tape, not live coverage. Only some schools in the US were carrying it live via NASA, and they cut away seconds after the incident. They came back to it, though.

It doesn't really matter - live or tape. As Chairboy is saying, there are still plenty of myths about it (as with all things, since people are people...), but leaving the public with the myth that the flight was an unavoidable disaster inherent in the dangers of spaceflight was the saddest thing.