The Untold Story Of The Challenger Crew Cabin

I've watched every doc about this event and yet the level of intentional negligence never fails to stun me.

So, I live in the Florida space coast area. Raised in Titusville, Florida, could see the VAB from my high school, got so habituated to rocket rumbling and sonic booms that I always slept through them. I remember the day Columbia broke up, how my mom made an offhand comment, “huh, we should have heard the boom by now. They’re late.” I’ve heard the story of Challenger a million times. Both my parents watched it happen. I know the facts in an academic sense, but this video still made me tear up. What the crew experienced was just so horrible, and it gets worse the longer you think about it. The people who made the decisions here deserved much, much worse than they got. The profit motive is possibly the most evil impulse we battle as a species.

When you take off your engineering hat, and put on your management hat, you have successfully become an idiot.

While this is a known story told many times on Youtube, i think this is the first time I heard of the executive meddling, effects of budget cuts and overall pressure, forcing a launch despite engineer protests. Once again learning something new from this channel.

I watched the Challenger launch in my second grade class. It went from a bunch of kids happy to be getting out of spelling to watch television to confused silence & teachers crying in seconds. Wish it was the only national tragedy I've seen live.

Correction: at 23:11 I misspeak and state Aluminum melts at 350° I was supposed to say loses it's structural integrity. Sorry for the mistake. What do you think was the cause of the accident? Don't forget to like and share with other science fans!

Richard Feynman is the man! I love how he explained the Challenger failure in a way that everyone could understand.

I was at the penultimate Challenger flight with some of the NASA engineers - so we were allowed to be closer than usual to the launch. A few minutes before the launch an engineer told me 'If it explodes, throw yourself on the ground and open your mouth'. Thinking he was joking I asked what the probability of an explosion was -- I've never forgotten his answer .. 'Do you want the official number or our number?'. I asked the obvious follow up question and got -- 'The official number is one in thousands -- we think it is about one in thirty'. And of course he was right.

Ngl i was surprised to see this documentary to have only 43k views like thisnis more in depth than netflix's documentary on this tragedy

Thanks for the video man. 2 hours of good eating. Thank you for all your hard work.

Judy Resnik is my favourite astronaut. I wasnt even alive when the disaster occurred, but she was such a brilliant mind. Her work on STS-41-D and her work on the RMS (Canadarm) was outstanding. She turned down a full ride scholarship for piano at Juilliard because engineering just sparked her interest more in the end. Everyone who was lost on Challenger was brilliant. They should never have passed this way.

It was all about cost cutting in the end - what a disgrace.

I hope those who gave the go ahead for that launch, were haunted for the rest of their days😢💔

I work in Wildland Fire for the USFS. The Challenger and Columbia disasters are two of our primary examples of the risk management process in avoiding the “normalization of deviance”: the drift to acceptance of something that is usually unacceptable, while it is failing more and more. You’re extremely thorough and detailed but approachable and understandable film completely shows forensically where that “normalization” started and how it deviated over time, to a point of absolute obvious extreme danger, and ultimate deaths of people whom had no say, no control, no vote. Brilliant work man. Keeping and sharing this!!!

In 1979, a failure analysis concluded that recovery reliability of the shuttle would be 97%. It was expected that 1 in 50 flights would suffer a catastrophic failure during ascent and that 1 in 100 would not land successfully. The final numbers from 2011 showed recovery reliability of 98.5%, comparable to Soyuz.

We were promised hover cars, free energy, common rooms that could virtually transport us to the African Veldt or a street in Victorian England during the time of pre-WW1. Cheap homes on Mars. Lifespan inching closer to 130 years old. Instead we got war after pointless war. Zero wealth increase (compared to inflation) over 45 years and we totter today on one bad move in the Iran War that will pitch us into perpetual darkness, economic collapse…or both.

What an excellent and thorough detailed review of this tragedy Well done for an insightful review without drama but just facts

Awh man what an upload, i recently remembered my confusion with why spaceshuttles didn't work out. Me and my brother had a spaceshuttle toy we liked to play with and since we're now adults, i asked him recently about this and we got into a heated and fun argument over all the things that went wrong. Great videos sir, really appreciate them

I knew about the engineers getting overruled the night before. I did not know that the o-ring problem was discovered on the very first test firings of the SRBs. That is enraging in new, even more infuriating ways

Lawerance Malloy should have been charged with 7 murders. Should be no doubt there are questions and distrust in NASA for the Artemis II flight and they fact the heat shield has been singed off on. They better pray nothing happens to that launch or NASA needs to be dismantled