On This Day
on 01/28/2007 at 02:02 AM
i still have the news paper from that day, (daily express) what a sad day, not just for the USA but all of us
That Reagan quote shows just how profound that man was at expressing what was going on. ‘slip the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.’ Wow
History channel (I think) was running a special (I guess it was space disasters) could only catch a section of it on the Apollo 1 disaster and how their deaths lead to a safer program and one that just over 2 years later ended in landing on the moon.
On the Challenger - I have the first coverage on tape. So sad. The Columbia disaster was over us in TX.
But for going into Space, we have had relatively few disasters and death.
Deadliest Week in NASA History(as far as history)..
January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 Launch-pad fire (Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White,Roger Bruce Chaffee)
January 28, 1986 Challenger
February 1,2003 Columbia(Rick D. Husban,William C. McCool, David M. Brown ,Kalpana Chawla,
* Michael P. Anderson,Laurel B. Clark ,Ilan Ramonand all three were possibly avoidable...(especially Challenger, but they were in such a hurry to launch that they ignored all the warnings that it wasn’t safe) and Apollo 1 with the capsule full of oxygen to test, and a hatch that basically ended up locking the crew in for their deaths..
Twenty-one years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Where does the time go?
Was working OT at a now defunct defense contractor. Several of us went out to grab a fast bite and it was on TV. Looked at the launch films and said “it has to be a burn through-because there is never any black smoke from a launch.” Coworkers thought it was a crock and after the facts came out it was a subject we never talked about.
01/28/2007 at 02:36 PM
01/29/2007 at 07:38 AM
