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Wednesay, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was successfully launched into space with the teacher Barbara Morgan who has been waiting for over 20 years since the Challenger tragedy. I think that is a wonderful that the teacher is in space finally and Morgan's persistence and patience paid off and she finally get to go up in space. My hats off to her :)

The mission will also have a tribute to the Challenger and the teacher Christa McAluffe. The class will also play a role in the mission and we pray that the mission will be complete successfully.

I'm sure many people who never forget the day on January 28, 1986 on the ill-fated Challenger. I never forget that day when I was in school and was glued to the TV and came in shock and some of the teachers cried in class. It was pretty much a somber day.

Does any of you remember that fateful day that you would like to share with us?

R.I.P Challenger and your mission carries on forever in space and heart.
 
Calvin said:
Wednesay, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was successfully launched into space with the teacher Barbara Morgan who has been waiting for over 20 years since the Challenger tragedy. I think that is a wonderful that the teacher is in space finally and Morgan's persistence and patience paid off and she finally get to go up in space. My hats off to her :)

The mission will also have a tribute to the Challenger and the teacher Christa McAluffe. The class will also play a role in the mission and we pray that the mission will be complete successfully.

I'm sure many people who never forget the day on January 28, 1986 on the ill-fated Challenger. I never forget that day when I was in school and was glued to the TV and came in shock and some of the teachers cried in class. It was pretty much a somber day.

Does any of you remember that fateful day that you would like to share with us?

R.I.P Challenger and your mission carries on forever in space and heart.
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I heard about the challenger disater, but I recall the worst back in 2003, the colombus disater. :(
 
I remember. I used to work at the base where the challenger used to landed there often.. I remember when I was at the desk and saw my coworker began to tear. They told me his uncle was gone and I never knew he had a family member who was on the challenger with the school teacher. I did not see it blew up on TV alike others on the base saw it. We were all in shock. Then I had to come home and deal with my sick 3 years old son. It had been 21 years now and still have those old pictures where I took pix of them landing on the runaway. So sad.
 
jclarke said:
I heard about the challenger disater, but I recall the worst back in 2003, the colombus disater. :(
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No difference between those twos. Took few years before they allow another flight into space then it happened again and waited few more years. Dangerous traveling into space.
 
Calvin said:
Wednesay, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was successfully launched into space with the teacher Barbara Morgan who has been waiting for over 20 years since the Challenger tragedy. I think that is a wonderful that the teacher is in space finally and Morgan's persistence and patience paid off and she finally get to go up in space. My hats off to her :)

The mission will also have a tribute to the Challenger and the teacher Christa McAluffe. The class will also play a role in the mission and we pray that the mission will be complete successfully.

I'm sure many people who never forget the day on January 28, 1986 on the ill-fated Challenger. I never forget that day when I was in school and was glued to the TV and came in shock and some of the teachers cried in class. It was pretty much a somber day.

Does any of you remember that fateful day that you would like to share with us?

R.I.P Challenger and your mission carries on forever in space and heart.
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same here i was in school watching the tv and saw the tragedy and was zombie that day
i never forget that day
and that is awesome for them to do a tribute to challenger and the teacher and the crews as well on the endeavour mission

RIP
 
I myself recall the trajic day of Challenger; was in third grade watching on TV too.
 
i remmy the day Jan 28, 1986... I was 14. I was home sick but glued to tv and watching the shuttle go up but it blew up.. I cried and was numb all day... I couldnt believe what happened...

Did u know that Barbara is retired from teaching but turned into an full astronaut? just wondering if you knew that?
 
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Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery was launched. The space program gets more interesting on what's happening in space these days.

It was not long ago - a couple months was the 23 years anniversary of the Challenger as well as Columbia 6 years ago. Also, the Apollo 1 - 42 years ago in 1967, they are all still remembered heroes.

Any of you still have vivid memories at the time of the Challenger explosion that you would like to share, please post away :)
 
It was my day off work and I was cleaning my apartment. I always watched space launches, and I watched the liftoff, and when it blew up, I couldn't believe it. I kept watching the reports, stunned, and eventually realized I'd been sitting on the couch clutching my dustrag for a couple of hours.
 
JClarke said:
I heard about the challenger disater, but I recall the worst back in 2003, the colombus disater. :(
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this is why they need to scrap our shuttles since it's a Russian roulette. Stick with apollo design (or whatever it's called) because it's proven to be safer than space shuttle.
 
Designing a launch vehicle is risky territory. Realistic tests cost millions of dollars, so they are limited. Jiro is right, the Apollo (rather Saturn V) designs are more efficient and simpler, so it's safer. That's why the new launch vehicles (Constellation program) will look more like rockets. However, I've read documents about those 2 space shuttle incidents, and it's always something like 3 minor things going wrong AT THE SAME TIME. If those minor things went wrong alone, it wouldn't have made a difference.

I have utmost respect for the team that created the Saturn fleet.
 
Daredevel7 said:
Designing a launch vehicle is risky territory. Realistic tests cost millions of dollars, so they are limited. Jiro is right, the Apollo (rather Saturn V) designs are more efficient and simpler, so it's safer. That's why the new launch vehicles (Constellation program) will look more like rockets. However, I've read documents about those 2 space shuttle incidents, and it's always something like 3 minor things going wrong AT THE SAME TIME. If those minor things went wrong alone, it wouldn't have made a difference.

I have utmost respect for the team that created the Saturn fleet.
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plus... those Saturn V-based rockets have escape pod if shit hits fan! that's why I read in the interview transcript quite a while ago that the astronauts always dread the moment when they get on space shuttle because it's a 50-50 gamble. If you want to know how that feels - try getting on commercial jet with unreliable safety record just to visit your ailing mama and back home. Yes space journey is dangerous but Saturn V-based rockets are much safer and much more reliable than space shuttles and I think our astronauts deserve that.
 
Jiro said:
plus... those Saturn V-based rockets have escape pod if shit hits fan! that's why I read in the interview transcript quite a while ago that the astronauts always dread the moment when they get on space shuttle because it's a 50-50 gamble. If you want to know how that feels - try getting on commercial jet with unreliable safety record just to visit your ailing mama and back home. Yes space journey is dangerous but Saturn V-based rockets are much safer and much more reliable than space shuttles and I think our astronauts deserve that.
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Yep, however, you have to keep in mind that the Apollo missions spent a LOT of $$$ because of all the failed unmanned tests. Since JFK was pushing NASA to fly to the moon before Russia, so money was just blown away launching unmanned vehicles as tests, which most of them blew up or failed in another way (including Apollo 1, which WAS manned, 3 were killed by fire). We'd like to think "Oh we should spend as much money as we can for the safety of the astronauts." But going from 98% probability of safety to 99.9% on the account of extra millions and millions of dollars... it's not as quite clear cut.
 
Daredevel7 said:
Yep, however, you have to keep in mind that the Apollo missions spent a LOT of $$$ because of all the failed unmanned tests. Since JFK was pushing NASA to fly to the moon before Russia, so money was just blown away launching unmanned vehicles as tests, which most of them blew up or failed in another way (including Apollo 1, which WAS manned, 3 were killed by fire). We'd like to think "Oh we should spend as much money as we can for the safety of the astronauts." But going from 98% probability of safety to 99.9% on the account of extra millions and millions of dollars... it's not as quite clear cut.
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that was before when things were new and unknown. now we have plenty of experience and knowledge. the degree of reliability and safety is lot better than our failing, outdated, expensive, cumbersome space shuttles. however.... we are the only country in the world that can transport a larger object to space that the rocket cannot transport.
 
Jiro said:
that was before when things were new and unknown. now we have plenty of experience and knowledge. the degree of reliability and safety is lot better than our failing, outdated, expensive, cumbersome space shuttles. however.... we are the only country in the world that can transport a larger object to space that the rocket cannot transport.
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There IS a reason for the space shuttle: the International Space Station. It would not have existed if it weren't for the space shuttle. But now it's almost completed.... I really look forward to the Constellation program!

Also, the Space shuttle idea was still "new", despite the experience of Apollo missions. Due to the drastic physical difference from Saturn design, it's a whole new ballpark of analysis.
 
Daredevel7 said:
There IS a reason for the space shuttle: the International Space Station. It would not have existed if it weren't for the space shuttle. But now it's almost completed.... I really look forward to the Constellation program!

Also, the Space shuttle idea was still "new", despite the experience of Apollo missions. Due to the drastic physical difference from Saturn design, it's a whole new ballpark of analysis.
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hence my last sentence - "however.... we are the only country in the world that can transport a larger object to space that the rocket cannot transport." What I can suggest for them is to reopen their scrapped plans to replace our space shuttles. IMO - I think they should shift the money being spent on F-22 to building new space shuttle.
 
kudos to the teacher!

anyway. I think they should develop launching into space by piggybacking on a 747 or something.
 
Calvin said:
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Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery was launched. The space program gets more interesting on what's happening in space these days.

It was not long ago - a couple months was the 23 years anniversary of the Challenger as well as Columbia 6 years ago. Also, the Apollo 1 - 42 years ago in 1967, they are all still remembered heroes.

Any of you still have vivid memories at the time of the Challenger explosion that you would like to share, please post away :)
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I was in 3rd grade watching live from my classroom. It was just sureal to me then. My teacher was very much into space exploration/astronomy. After the incident, my teacher just lost it. I honestly don't remember anything else from that day after seeing the Challenger accident.
 
I'm sure many people who never forget the day on January 28, 1986 on the ill-fated Challenger. I never forget that day when I was in school and was glued to the TV and came in shock and some of the teachers cried in class. It was pretty much a somber day.


I remember this day, it was sad. I was a junior in hs in my English class where it was announced through the loud speaker :(
 
I don't know that day cos I was in her womb at around five months of pregnancy. So, my mom told me that she was just excited and couldn't get off her eyes on tv until, suddenly, it was out of blue. She was extremely disappointed and sad cos she wanted to know what's going on outside of the Earth. She said she couldn't imagine the teacher just got on the ride and expected something so excited to learn, then immediately washed out when it blew up. :(
 
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