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Showing posts with label Space Shuttle Challenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Shuttle Challenger. Show all posts
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, February 4, 2010
New Amateur Video Reveals Sheer Devastation Of Challenger Explosion
From The Daily Mail:
An amateur video of the Challenger explosion has resurfaced, 24 years after the tragedy.
The four-minute film, shot by optometrist Jack Moss, brings an entirely new perspective to the terrible event which killed a team of seven, including science teacher Christa McAuliffe, who had been chosen by NASA to become the first civilian in space.
In the tape shot from his back garden in Winter Haven Florida in 1986, Moss watches the launch with his wife and neighbour before the group noticed something was wrong.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Remembering The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion 24 Years Ago
- Michael John Smith, pilot
- Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first teacher in space
- Judith Resnik, the first Jewish American astronaut
- Dick Scobee, spacecraft commander
- Ronald McNair, a Phd. physicist who would have recorded the first saxophone solo in space
- Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American in space
- Gregory Jarvis, engineer and payload specialist
Sighhh ....
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