25 years ago today the space shuttle Challenger exploded. I vividly remember being in sixth grade art class when the principal announced what happened. The shuttle also had the first civilian on board as well, teacher Christa McAuliffe. Here's video of what happened that day on live TV.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 5:27 PM
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
8 Comments:
This is so sad. This and westward expansion are testaments to how far the human race is willing to go to explore the unknown.
6:35 PM
Do you believe manned space missions are still in the United States' future? Do you think they are worth the billions they would cost?
6:40 PM
I agree with Jack.
As for Carlisle, I think manned missions are realistic although they would be unpopular with the public. NASA is a black hole for government spending.
I feel like the federal government needs to stop placing all of its funding into NASA. NASA's had its share of accomplishments, but the private sector would be (and are) able to do a lot more with the money than make Tempurpedic mattresses.
6:45 PM
This is really sad. And I also agree with Jack, it's incredible how far we're willing to go to explore the unknown but it's also admirable and a good characteristic of the human race in my opinion.
7:15 PM
I agree with Jack
And Quach (I think...)
And Casiana-the courage and desire to explore the unknown is a valuable but dangerous endowment of the human race, especially Americans according to the Frontier Thesis.
Not much else I can say.
9:20 PM
I am confused about the actual point in which the Challenger actually blew up in this video. I also think it is a bit of an understatement for Houston to say that there was a "major malfunction" in the last part of that video. It looked obvious that something went wrong.
What is to be done with NASA? It is a terrible waste of money in my opinion because of the lack of accomplishments in the last say, 10 years. I think the American people would like to see more out of NASA in the coming years in order for the common person to feel more confident that their tax dollars are being used well.
9:28 PM
Wow, this is horrible.
And I believe I am in disagreement with some people that have already commented when I say that space missions are worth their cost. I can think of many other options that would be worse use of government spending than NASA's space programs. I honestly believe that it's vital that human knowledge expand as time progresses. I mean, what are we (as humans) to do if we don't continue to learn?
5:57 PM
Exploration is incredibly important to progress. The desire to understand something that no one else has is vital to humanity. Ideas themselves are a form of exploration, and can be just as dangerous.
For Ivan K. watch the video again, you'll see a miniscule shadow on the right side of our view of the shuttle at 43 seconds approx. That's a piece of the heat shield falling off.
9:35 PM
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