Paul 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸I've just found out that the Challenger Disaster happened 40 years ago today.
CarolleisaRemembering with sorrow and love 1/28/86 #challengerdisaster The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51L pose for a portrait prior to flight. Back row, from left: Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. Front row, from left: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ron McNair. NASA
Their remains were found after two months off Cape Canaveral and burned in May at Arlington. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💜
Their remains were found after two months off Cape Canaveral and burned in May at Arlington. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💜
J.A. Pipes ✅Forty years ago today, I was a senior in high school sitting in my yearbook class when our teacher rolled a TV into our classroom and said, "the space shuttle just blew up." We all thought she was joking. It was obviously no joke.
#spaceshuttle #challenger #challengerdisaster #NASA #astronauts #tragedy #40yearsAgo
Boomerissimo.itUh-oh' - le ultime parole del pilota Smith. La NASA sapeva tutto, ma cosa successe davvero in quei tre minuti orribili?
Il caso Challenger come non l'avete mai sentito. 👇
#nasa #spaceshuttle #truecrime #anni80 #storia #challengerdisaster
https://boomerissimo.it/2025/09/11/challenger-fine-del-sogno-la-verita-su-una-morte-orribile/
Steve MitchellI still get a shiver down my spine whenever I hear the words, “Challenger, go at throttle-up.” And not in a good way. This will be my next book to get off of my teetering #TBRpile #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bibliophile #BookLovers #Bookworm #ChallengerDisaster #SpaceShuttle #Challenger #AdamHigginbotham
Mattias
AnneTheWriter#OnThisDay in 1986...
I was at college, walking up the stairs to my dormroom when I heard about it. I spent the rest of the day glued to my little TV in our room.
As I watched the video that was being replayed over and over, one moment struck me: The twin trails of smoke from the booster rockets looked like the wide-spread arms of a giant in the sky.
It was immediately obvious that there would be no survivors. I cried, and prayed that they never had a chance to know what happened, and feeling awful for all the school kids watching the teacher take off, on TVs at schools around the world.
The cause was later determined to be a simple, small, faulty O-ring. It would be months later before any human remains were recovered, found at the bottom of the ocean.
The #SpaceProgram would never be the same again.
#ChallengerDisaster #SpaceShuttle #Space #SpaceShuttleChallenger #ThisDayInHistory #NASA #NASAshuttle #OnThisDay80s #OTD
From the archives: 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion
Queen of AnxietyWell I don’t think I’ve had a #ChallengerDisaster dream before. Unsurprising that the news repeatedly playing the footage at me when I was home sick means it’s part of my psyche. Just don’t think it’s ever worked its way into a dream before.
Jason TownsendJanuary 28, 1986:
I was in 4th grade. It was a special day as a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was going up on the Space Shuttle to do experiments in space. They brought in a CRT TV on one of those tall carts for my class to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle happen live.
As the shuttle was ascending to space, there was a catastrophic explosion. They quickly turned off the TV and we were all in shock.
#Challenger #ChallengerDisaster
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
ThenaRemembering Judith Resnik, who died #OTD in 1986 aboard #SpaceShuttleChallenger.
Judy wore this flight suit on her way from Houston to Cape Canaveral ahead of her mission on #Challenger #STS51L. She left it with her things in the astronaut quarters, and it was returned to her family after #ChallengerDisaster. Her family donated it to the Johnson Space Center Visitor Complex where it can be seen today.
