Thursday, February 4, 2010

New Video of Challenger Disaster Surfaces After 24 Years

Do you remember where you were when the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion occurred. I was leaving my dorm room walking to a chemistry lab at Texas A&M. As I walked by the TV room I saw the first replay of the explosion, before they actually knew what happened.

Someone just published a previously unseen home video of the explosion on YouTube.
On a chilly January morning 24 years ago, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration the explosion of the shuttle Challenger.

In the videotape, a stream of white smoke behind the climbing shuttle shoots into view but Moss, his wife and a neighbor noticed immediately that More..something was amiss when the channel separated into two streams.

Thats trouble of some kind, Moss can be heard saying. That didnt look right.

Moments later, someone is heard telling Moss that the Challenger had blown up.


Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

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