Challenger disaster helicopter video
 

Not sure how YouTube works? I was looking at Singer 911 videos and this popped up. A video of the Challenger disaster take from a helicopter. This is the first time I have seen the disaster from this perspective.

A very sad day. I remember it well. God speed to all onboard.

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Very sobering.

I've not seen that perspective before either.

heartbreaking

I remember that day so well. I was working in the lab, where we investigated aircraft failures. My boss came into the lab and said, "The Challenger just blew up." We all gathered around a little 13" TV he had in his office and watched for an hour or so. I don't thing anyone said another word all day. We got real busy testing O-rings a couple of weeks later.

The worst one to watch is the viewing stand w the families of the astronauts faces.

In early February 2003, my wife and I were headed down I 75 across the Florida/Georgia line, and I remembered that we may be able to see a space shuttle coming in for a landing at Cape Canaveral just about the time for us to drive underneath it. We were on the phone with her Grandmother who lived near lake Eustis in Tavares Florida. She told us that the shuttle COLUMBIA never made it past Texas on it's approach.

So sad when these things happen.

That happened on my 30th birthday. I had taken the day off to work on my 1966 Corvette, and was listening to the radio in the garage when the bulletin came on. Horrifying.

I had just driven off the parking lot from a tire company in the city of Glendale. I just got out of second gear into third in my little 1980 Celica trying to get up to speed and the sad news came on the radio.

I remember it well also.. I was at work, and we all stopped to watch the launch and then stayed glued to the TV for an hour in disbelief

I was in my SOC497 class issuing unit mastery tests when someone came in the class to tell us the Challenger exploded.

This is still sickening to watch, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Horrific.

I just found the newspapers i had saved from that day (and the following 2 days).
We had been in school and the teachers had wheeled in the tv carts for us to watch.