Movie Anyone watching the Challenger movie?

Fat Melissa said:
how/why did the thing blow up anyway?


:( their death viewed by millions (?)
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The o-rings that sealed in the liquid fuel did not work below a certain temp, because it lifted off in Florida, no one figured it would get to that temp, so it didn't really get mentioned or thought about.
Unfortunately, the day it lifted was fairly cold...
 
Mr. Asa said:
The o-rings that sealed in the liquid fuel did not work below a certain temp, because it lifted off in Florida, no one figured it would get to that temp, so it didn't really get mentioned or thought about.
Unfortunately, the day it lifted was fairly cold...
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O rings ? Qué?

Ok so it was partly due to weather conditions ???
 
When you have two hard surfaces that you need to seal (metal and metal, glass and metal, ceramic and glass, whatever) one of the ways you can seal it is with a ring of soft material that squeezes between the hard surfaces to fill in any gaps between the hard materials and create a good seal.
Best example that I can think of that you might have in your house would be the metal lid to a glass jar in your fridge. Take the lid off the jar and feel the inside of the lid, there should be a sort of rubbery surface.
That isn't really an o-ring as they are usually designed as separate pieces that can be replaced, but it should give you a rough idea.

Since the o-ring failed, a small trickle of liquid fuel trailed down to the engines below, once the fuel was lit it followed the trail back to the initial leak, then tragedy.

And weather conditions was one of the causes, although I think more of a blame would be poor engineering.


That help?
 
Fat Melissa said:
O rings ? Qué?

Ok so it was partly due to weather conditions ???
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yeah, it was a perfect combo of a subpar part and cold weather that caused the part to fail. It was January if i remember correctly. when the o-ring didn't do it's job the fuel began to leak during lift off caught fire and caused the shuttle to explode.
 
Mr. Asa said:
When you have two hard surfaces that you need to seal (metal and metal, glass and metal, ceramic and glass, whatever) one of the ways you can seal it is with a ring of soft material that squeezes between the hard surfaces to fill in any gaps between the hard materials and create a good seal.
Best example that I can think of that you might have in your house would be the metal lid to a glass jar in your fridge. Take the lid off the jar and feel the inside of the lid, there should be a sort of rubbery surface.
That isn't really an o-ring as they are usually designed as separate pieces that can be replaced, but it should give you a rough idea.

Since the o-ring failed, a small trickle of liquid fuel trailed down to the engines below, once the fuel was lit it followed the trail back to the initial leak, then tragedy.

And weather conditions was one of the causes, although I think more of a blame would be poor engineering.


That help?
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Yeah, what he said.
 
Fat Melissa said:
Uhm that must have been pretty traumatic! Wtf
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It was odd to watch, but like yeppers said, a lot of schools did assemblies or brought TVs in to watch. It was a huge deal because they made such a thing about teachers being involved with the space program. I know we were signed up to do a lot with this thanks to our teacher. It was surreal in a way.

I'm not sure people quite grasped what happened at first as the film of it was not very good and we were kind of young (IIRC I was about 9). I really don't think it was nearly as bad for me to watch that shuttle explode as it was for me to watch the TV while Columbia shuttle. I caught that one somehow and remember it more than Challenger's explosion.
 
ok so i youtubed this this and found this clip of the explosion as it happened and the reaction of the students and parents/family on the ground. pretty fucknig sad as they really had no idea wtf had just happened

 
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This thread caused me to go look at some of the videos of the TV reports.... some of what the newscasters stated was simply chilling. That video of Christine's mom is totally heart breaking :( I couldn't imagine what it was like to watch that and knowing your family was up there.

I have no idea what that would be like working there during something like that. I have a friend who works for NASA and has been since like 2000 though in FL and I cannot imagine working there when something like that happens.
 
WHAT THE FKING FCK. I RENT A DANG OL MOVING FROM AMAZON AND IT SAYS I NEED TEH FLASH ON MY TABLET. SO I GO TO DL TEH FLASHES & THERE IS NO FLASHES AVAILABLE TO DL?!?
WHAT. THE. EFF
 
helenabear said:
It was odd to watch, but like yeppers said, a lot of schools did assemblies or brought TVs in to watch. It was a huge deal because they made such a thing about teachers being involved with the space program. I know we were signed up to do a lot with this thanks to our teacher. It was surreal in a way.

I'm not sure people quite grasped what happened at first as the film of it was not very good and we were kind of young (IIRC I was about 9). I really don't think it was nearly as bad for me to watch that shuttle explode as it was for me to watch the TV while Columbia shuttle. I caught that one somehow and remember it more than Challenger's explosion.
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When the Columbia thing happened it was the weirdest day for me. I had just left Dan the day before. I was staying with a friend who thought that it was unimportant and didn't care. Then, the house next door to her suddenly exploded. It turned out to be a gas leak. It was just a strange day. I felt like I was living in some kind of terrible dream.
 
MapleySyrup said:
When the Columbia thing happened it was the weirdest day for me. I had just left Dan the day before. I was staying with a friend who thought that it was unimportant and didn't care. Then, the house next door to her suddenly exploded. It turned out to be a gas leak. It was just a strange day. I felt like I was living in some kind of terrible dream.
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you've been with dan since 1986??!?!?!?!?
 
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