Challenger Anniversary Resource Tape

okay up on the stool there on the shirts and the jackets and we need the jacket zipped or you want to leave them why don't we zip them off to about right half fast okay good I know where I was looking on that I think he's just to let's see here this is your be careful when you're adjusting this this is a canopy jettison no about taking the pins out okay later all tell you how are okay you the uh you can see in the like this the W to screw this thing in it'll automatically as you screw it in it'll it'll open up this valve and you can go ahead and inflate it more in case something happens y cat grab an just pull off that bcro flat uh un Stow The Descent control tether and rope bag that's your Sky de thr the Rope bag overboard attach the tether you attach that to your Carabiner climb the MS seat and you descend over the top and we got the line coming in here and it's wrapped around a bar in the middle three and a half times and almost any tension at all on this create enough Bri to completely stop your fall I let up on it you still go at a fairly slow rate of descent let me do a couple of things easy should be 6 67 53 okay you're about 55 ft it's about 20 ft for so I'm need to go about 10 ft further out it's not there here must be below it yeah that must be it about 40 35 on a actually it drifted a a little bit 16 how many of them have one you know they not in here because okay it's red the indoor but you know you'll see things at the same kind of time frame as you're seeing it now it doesn't look different start collectings no way no way is Dr Bill's like I say the bag will will look different it's a bigger bag all three dsos are yes um now where we are now you're going to be up I I'll probably come down and help this camera back over here or upstairs so if right at the end I could get everybody over here that would work everybody except for prce everybody could come over if you wanted to J can come down from upstairs yeah I I think that would be nice I think oh that's going to be great and then this camera you going to talk about the galley and the lockers the lockers the gley the lockers the the treadmill where the other seats um were in the A and the crew and then the crew will come over yeah we should we just show can see I didn't I didn't realize to be so spply I should have held on tight e good afternoon I'd like to introduce to you the commander of sts-51l Commander dick scobby who will introduce the rest of his crew and they'll say a few words thank you our fans are over here in the corner as usual it's a real pleasure to be at the cape to come down here and participate in something that the cape does better than anybody in the world and that's launching space Vehicles it's a it's a great pleasure for us to be here we expect weather like this on Sunday when we launch and you all do the best to keep it that way if you would and what I'll do is introduce the next crew member and we'll just go down the line let everybody say a little a little bit as we go and uh I'd like to introduce my pilot Mike Smith who's one of the best flyers in the world and he's great to have in the in the shuttle and I'm glad to have him board as a pilot so here's Mike thanks dick uh let me Echo what dick said about it's uh good to be down here and uh to be flying a vehicle that we know a lot of folks down here have worked very hard on we understand it's ready to go and we're looking forward to going to fly uh I'm one of the three people on board who who's and it'll be be my first time to fly Krista mcalli and uh Greg Jarvis will Al it'll also be their first time and we're just all looking forward to getting on over and getting the secret handshake I'd like to introduce now Judy Resnick she's she's our Center seater and keep sticking eye honest on the system problems Judy well I too am glad to be here one more time and uh I am hoping that the the uh Affliction that Steve Holly had from the 41d mission mission specialist of the delays hasn't rubbed off on me and I think the guys behind me are hoping that it hasn't also otherwise they might throw me off the flight and I will now introduce El Elon isuka let me say that uh it's really a pleasure to be back I'm looking forward to going to fly this one I think we got some uh real interesting payloads the mission is a is a great Mission we're looking forward to it and I think we're ready to go fly thanks for uh being out here today I forgot the one thing I was supposed to do let me introduce uh Ron mcneir who is uh going to be doing a lot of work with the Spartan hle Mission and uh carrying on a lot of the experiments that we'll be going on in the crew compartment again I like to Echo the opinions of my crew members that we look forward to returning launching from the cape first of all and returning here a few days later I had the privilege of being a part of the crew a couple years ago that made the first landing here at the cape and I intend to be a part of the crew to make the first return Landing to the cape in about a week at this time I'd like to introduce you or to perhaps the person you you came to see and that's uh Christa mccallop our payload specialist teacher in faith well I am so excited to be here um we watch Columbia go over the Houston area this morning and that was a thrill I don't think any teacher has ever been more ready to have two lessons in my life I've been preparing these since September and I just hope everybody Tunes in on day four now to watch the teacher teaching from space I'd like to introduce to you someone who's going to be in my second lesson Greg Jarvis the payload specialist from Hughes it's a a great pleasure finally to get this far uh I'm uh very proud to be part of the program that NASA and Hughes have put together and I'm glad to be representing the Hughes aircraft company as their payload specialist without any further Ado I'll uh get off the stage you can all get going thank you very much and then we have uh Commander dick scobby sitting beside pilot Mike Smith in front of the traditional cake featuring hi's Comet and an apple for the teacher Judy rnck on the left Mission specialist along with Ron McNair and payload specialist Greg Jarvis all members of the uh 51l crew and they're going to give it another shot today there they are the crew of mission 51l including teacher and space participant and the first first private citizen to fly in space Christa mlli this is shuttle launch control at T minus 2 minutes 2 I mean 2 hours 28 minutes in counting here comes the uh 51l flight crew boarding the elevator uh for the second time in two days ready to depart the onc building for the launch pad and they'll ride down the uh three floors to the main level where they will uh exit the onc building traditionally met by the members of the media who are uh standing by waiting to uh document and this is the work crew here that uh has been very active in preparing the 51l mission at the operations and checkout building payloads which include a tedra satellite spart and Halley experiment and here comes the flight cre now Commander dick followed by J wrest Ron McNair and pilot Mike Smith followed by Christ Malla teacher in space Ellison anuka and payLo specialist Greg Jarvis big smiles today confidently getting into the van they're going to go out to that pad and uh attempt a second try second La second try at launch today and the first crew member Commander Dix Kobe now uh in the white room taking off his jacket uh along with Mike Smith who is the uh the pilot T minus 15 seconds 10 9 8 7 6 we have main engine start 4 3 2 1 and liftoff liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it is cleared the tower good roll program confirmed Challenger now heading down range engines beginning throttling down now at 94% normal throttles uh for most of the flight 104% we'll Throttle Down to 65% shortly engines at 65% three engines running normally three good fuel Tails three good apus velocity 2257 ft per second altitude 4.3 nautical miles downrange distance 3 nautical miles engines throttling up three engin now at 14% Challenger go with throttle up go throttle up 1 minute 15 seconds velocity 2900 ft per second altitude 9 nautical miles down range distance 7 na miles flly controllers here looking very carefully at the situation obviously a major malfunction we have no down link this is Mission Control Houston we have no additional word at this time reports from the flight Dynamics officer in indicate that the vehicle U apparently exploded and that uh impact in the water at a point approximately 28. 64 Dees North 80. 28° West we are awaiting a verification from uh uh as to the location of the recovery forces in the field to see what uh may be possible at this point lift up confirmed lift off Roger roll Challenger good roll flight good roll three at 65 65 pH T confirms throttles thank you Challenger go with throttle up trajectory go ahead flight JC we've had negative contact lost down okay all operators watch your data carefully flight final till we get stuff back he's on his Q card for abort modes flly GC negative down L copy flight Futo go ahead RSO reports vehicle exploded copy pH can we get any reports from recovery forces stand by F flight go ahead did the rsos have an impact point stand by okay everybody stay off the telephones make sure you maintain all your data start pulling it together flight go ahead sir are the lsos on the loop we can get them get them up on this Loop please yes sir it's the lso okay are there any forces headed out that way yes sir DOD lso reports that all all soft forces have been scrambled and they are underway a large scale search effort was initiated to recover the space shuttle debris 22 ships six underwater search vessels and 33 aircraft participated in the operation the pieces recovered initially were those found floating on the surface the submarine fleet was used to locate and inspect underwater debris objects identified as being important to the investigation were retrieved 50% of the entire vehicle was recovered in the effort of Roger charlesy we'll adise when we have any further 429 come around to 00 1800 RPM okay we're going try to catch up the be great steady Bob I got you you got it what no idea ma'am e e we have a video release of the way in which the fragments from the STS 51l accident are being brought back and after being cleaned up are being laid out on a grid in the KSC Logistics facility you'll notice that they're being placed on a grid uh drawn on the floor in conformance with the national Transportation safety board's normal procedures The View shown on the videotape is taken looking from a corner of the facility uh along the port side or the left side of the Orbiter from the tail looking forward toward the nose e we come together today to mourn the loss of seven Brave Americans to share the grief that we all feel and perhaps in that sharing to find the strength to Bear our sorrow and the courage to look for the seeds of hope our nation's loss is first a profound personal loss to the family and the friends and the loved ones of our shuttle astronauts the best we can do is remember our Seven astronauts our challenge seven remember them as they lived bringing life and love and joy to those who knew them and pride to a nation they came from all parts of this great country from South Carolina to Washington State Ohio to Mohawk New York Hawaii to North Carolina to conquered New Hampshire they were so different yet in their their mission their Quest they held so much in common the future is not free the story of all human progress is one of a struggle Against All Odds we learned again that this America which Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of man on Earth was built on heroism and Noble sacrifice it was built by men and women like our sevenstar voyagers who answered a call Beyond Duty who gave more than was expected or required and who gave it little thought of worldly reward today the frontier is space and the boundaries of human knowledge sometimes when we reach for the stars we fall short but we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on immense reservoirs of Courage character and fortitude that we're still blessed with Heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger dick Mike Judy L Ron Greg and Christa your families and your country mourn your passing we bid you goodbye we will never forget you may God bless you all and give you comfort in this difficult time e for

Channel: NASA STI Program

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Keywords: CHALLENGER, (ORBITER);, SPACE, SHUTTLE, MISSIONS;, TRANSPORTATION, SYSTEM, FLIGHTS;, FLIGHT, CREWS;, AERIAL, EXPLOSIONS;, SPACECRAFT, LAUNCHING;, ASTRONAUTS;, LAUNCHING, SITES;, RESCUE, OPERATIONS;, WRECKAGE;, NEWS, MEDIA;, PHYSIOLOGICAL, TESTS;, PREFLIGHT, OPERATIONS

Id: IviOm71Iml0

Length: 33min 17sec (1997 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 19 2011