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00:00more bad news for the space shuttle challenger today fruit of the loom panties created just for
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00:31well i love students i love the interaction i feel that teaching is a learning process i see myself as
00:40a facilitator not as an authority in the classroom and i'm going to miss that this year because i
00:45feel that i grow every time i teach in a course or teach it a little bit differently because students
00:50have different outlooks and they have different opinions i'm enthusiastic got lots of energy and
00:56because i like what i'm doing i think that gets the students involved in it if you knew someone who's
01:02thinking kind of seriously about going into teaching but we're vacillating a little bit what would you say
01:07to encourage them what one thing could you tell them well i would hope that they would have at least one
01:11teacher who they could look at as a role model i'm hoping that i can give a lot of students that
01:19opportunity so many times women especially have such limited role models and it's changing it is
01:25changing and that's good but if you see a lot of good role models then you're going to be able to
01:30pick and and i'm hoping as more and more people stay into teaching because they love it and maybe that
01:36the salaries get raised a little bit so that all everyone is happy and they're enthusiastic that more
01:41students will look at that and say i'd love to become a teacher challenger's crew will deploy a tracking
01:47satellite and observe halley's comment they'll also oversee an indiana college student's prize
01:52winning experiment measuring weightlessness on embryo development using chicken eggs it took me three
01:57times before i ever became a national winner and maybe it would take you four or five but just think
02:01that one time my ship came back home look what it's done for me you know i'll be able to say hey i
02:05have a project on the space shuttle tonight's space shuttle challenger on launch pad 39b as the mammoth
02:10spacecraft is prepared for liftoff crews were expected to begin loading some 500 000 gallons of liquid
02:16hydrogen and oxygen into the external fuel tank the large expandable torpedo shaped object the shuttle
02:22is attached to earlier today air force meteorologists predicted clouds and possible rain for tomorrow
02:29forcing nasa officials to consider delaying the liftoff joining me live now is jim misel public
02:33affairs officer with nasa jim how does the liftoff look for monday morning how does the weather look
02:38the front is going to move through this area very rapidly tomorrow bringing overcast clouds with a lot
02:43of rain and we're expecting this to clear up monday and have great weather for the launch is the
02:48launch a go for monday or will there be decisions to be made yet we have a meeting at two o'clock
02:52tomorrow afternoon to discuss things such as decisions to be made such as the weather right now we think
02:57that the weather is going to be great for monday okay very briefly if you can tell our viewers why
03:02rain is a problem a lot of people don't understand that well the shuttle has heat resistant tiles on the
03:07bottom and these are like eggshells they're very fragile to breaking and the rain acts like bbs or
03:13shotgun pellets on the bottom of the orbit at the speed of sound as it climbs out of uh kennedy space
03:17center jim you've been involved in an awful lot of these launches how does the crew take a delay
03:22like this well the crew is trained for this they're very professional and uh they take it in stride uh
03:27several of them are test pilots so they're very familiar with uh delays while most of the shuttle's
03:31work is aimed at the future they'll also be paying some attention to the past studying the creation of
03:36the universe by taking a closer look at halley's comet astronaut judy resnick will set a satellite
03:43outside the shuttle where it will study the vapors that create the comet's tail after a couple of days
03:48of comet watching spartan halley's satellite will be brought back in but it won't be all work on this
03:54mission at least if astronaut ron mcnair has anything to say about it i want to find me one little
04:00perch in that window grab me a camera put my music on and just watch the world go by
04:19this is daybreak sunday on cnn for january 26 1986 with atlanta bad weather is blamed for a delay in the
04:28launch of space shuttle challenger it was supposed to lift off today but nasa postponed the launch
04:32until tomorrow because the forecast calls for fog rain and clouds near the kennedy space center
04:38challenger is now set to head into space at 9 37 a.m eastern time 6 37 pacific time tomorrow we're
04:46always interested in the safety of the flight crew and the safety of the shuttle so based on those
04:50considerations we decided to reschedule until monday morning is the crew aware of the delay the crew is
04:56asleep at the present time they'll be awakened at their regular time and of course uh they will
05:00then find out that they're gonna have to wait 24 more hours before they go it's gonna be a big big
05:05disappointment when they find out gregory bruce jarvis graduated from mohawk central high school
05:12later renamed to gregory b jarvis high school which eventually became the gregory b jarvis middle school in
05:19his honor in mohawk new york 1962 he received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering
05:27from the state university of new york at buffalo in 1967 and a master of science degree in the same
05:33discipline from northeastern university two years later jarvis joined the united states air force the
05:41same year and served until 1973 when he was honorably discharged as a captain thereafter jarvis worked
05:49for hughes aircraft in june 1984 jarvis was one of two hughes aircraft employees selected as candidates
05:59for the space shuttle program he planned to conduct experiments regarding the effects of weightlessness
06:05on fluids future satellites will be designed based on what's learned during this mission
06:10astronaut great jarvis will be running experiments to see if the amount of liquid fuel in a satellite
06:16or the sloshing around of fuel makes satellites less stable and thus unusable in orbit jarvis was initially
06:24scheduled to make his shuttle flight in april 1985 but jarvis was replaced on that flight by u.s senator jake
06:33garn jarvis's flight was rescheduled for early january 1986 but he was again replaced this time by u.s
06:43representative bill nelson
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07:32Let me out!
07:33Let me out!
07:34Take it down!
07:39My controllers here looking very carefully at the situation.
07:45Obviously a major malfunction.
07:49God, no!
07:54We have no downlink.
08:01We need to record whatever we're under.
08:03We're here!
08:05What happened now?
08:06Everybody go!
08:13Go where?
08:15Right!
08:16Go!
08:17The initial path of the crew cabin from the vapor cloud carried it across the path of an adjacent contrail,
08:22clearly revealing its truncated form and attitude.
08:25The remains of all seven astronauts from the Challenger disaster were discovered in the crew decks on the ocean floor.
08:37Jarvis' body was discovered in the lower mid-deck along with McNair and McAuliffe.
08:43During salvage operations to raise the crew deck from the ocean floor, Jarvis' body escaped from the wreckage,
08:51floated to the surface, and disappeared back into the sea.
08:56On April 15th, 1986, on the last scheduled attempt to recover wreckage, his body was rediscovered and returned to shore.
09:06Jarvis was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
09:11The payload specialist, Gregory Jarvis, he is born in Detroit, Michigan.
09:19We have no word on what indeed has happened to the crew.
09:24Although, quite frankly, there is not much hope now that we've been told that the escape capsule,
09:31or what we saw come down by parachute anyway, is not the capsule containing the astronauts.
09:42We also have in this particular segment of video some of the expansion nozzle from the right-hand SRB.
09:49This is phenolic structure, and you can see some of the filaments that are coming out frayed from the inside.
09:57The common ball, kid.
10:02To recover the schedule.
10:04Price is clean.
10:05So don't get caught for dirty dentures.
10:07Brush them clean with minty-tasting dentin cream or mouthwash red dentin gel.
10:10It's the winner!
10:11This has been an unparalleled tragedy in the U.S. space program today.
10:21Everybody stick around, because we're going to have some fun.
10:23At this time, I'd like to introduce you to perhaps the person you came to see, and that's Crystal McAuliffe, our payload specialist teacher at space.
10:34Funny things that stick out this way.
10:37The electrical generation and conversion activity generates heat, and so we have to have a radiator system to get rid of the heat on this part of the ship when it's up there flying by itself.
10:49So the first launch takes up a little electricity, it takes up a little heat rejection, it also will take up an attitude control system.
10:58There will be computers and, you know, have a couple of those antennas we were talking about, because it has to be self-sufficient.
11:05We've got to be able to, and we'll fly it from the control center over here, just like we would an unmanned spacecraft.
11:09I've been talking about sizes.
11:10Maybe you want to talk about sizes.
11:11You at least ought to tell them, when you show them the whole thing after it's split together, you ought to tell them it's bigger than a football field.
11:19It's one of the things that I've also tried to do.
11:22Because having this was very helpful, because kids have a much, they have a pretty good idea how big this is, and then to show it against that.
11:34So that was helpful, just without this, it would be very hard to explain it.
11:41And you're much better giving comparisons to kids or examples than to put the numbers up to me.
11:48Tell me what you're, I guess I sort of understand what you're going to do with this thing.
11:53Are you going to take it apart and put it together in front of you?
11:57The day has finally come when the accident occurred.
12:01We simply were unprepared or ill-prepared for this kind of a tragedy.
12:05We have no downlink.
12:06Train in the fabric of American adventure.
12:08Sharon Christa McAuliffe was born Sharon Christa Corrigan on September 2nd, 1948, in Boston, as the oldest of the five children of accountant Edward Christopher Corrigan, born 1922, and died 1990, who was of English and Irish descent.
12:26And Grace Mary Corrigan, born 1924, died 2018, a substitute teacher whose father was of Lebanese Maronite descent.
12:36McAuliffe was a great niece of Lebanese American historian Philip Curie Hiti.
13:06The year McAuliffe was born, her father was completing his sophomore year,
13:26and in later years she signed her name S. Christa Corrigan, and eventually S. Christa McAuliffe.
13:32The year McAuliffe was born, her father was completing his sophomore year at Boston College.
13:38Not long after, he took a job as an assistant comptroller in a Boston department store, and they moved to Framingham, Massachusetts,
13:46where McAuliffe attended Marion High School, graduating in 1966.
13:51She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in 1970 from Framingham State College, now Framingham State University.
13:59As a youth, McAuliffe was inspired by Project Mercury and the Apollo moon landing program.
14:05For the first live report from the Cape, let's go immediately to NBC's Roy Neal at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
14:11I am just listening to the voice of Colonel John Powers in Mercury Control, who has just advised us that as of this moment,
14:17we can report to you live and direct from this vantage point at Cape Canaveral.
14:21That's pad 14, Mercury Atlas 6, is ready for launching.
14:25John Glenn is inside the spacecraft.
14:27The countdown at this moment is T minus 85 minutes.
14:30T minus 85 minutes.
14:58the day after john glenn orbited the earth in friendship 7 she told a friend at marion high
15:09do you realize that someday people will be going to the moon maybe even taking a bus
15:14and i want to do that macauliffe wrote years later on her nasa application form
15:20i watched the space age being born and i would like to participate
15:24in 1970 macauliffe married her longtime boyfriend
15:53whom she had known since high school stephen j macauliffe a 1970 graduate of the virginia
15:59military institute the couple moved closer to washington dc so that he could attend the
16:05georgetown university law center they had two children scott and caroline who were nine and
16:11six respectively when she died
16:25macauliffe obtained her first teaching position in 1970 as an american history teacher at benjamin falwa junior high school in morningside maryland
16:39from 1971 to 1978 she taught history and civics at thomas johnson middle school in lanham maryland
16:45in addition to teaching macauliffe completed a master of arts in education supervision
16:51and administration from bowie state university in maryland
16:55in 1978 she moved to concord new hampshire when steven accepted a job as an assistant to the new hampshire attorney general
17:01macauliffe taught 7th and 8th grade american history in english in concord new hampshire
17:05the ninth grade english in bow new hampshire before taking a teaching post at concord high school in 1983 macauliffe was a social studies teacher Tr
17:20American History in English in Concord, New Hampshire and 9th grade English in Bow, New Hampshire
17:27before taking a teaching post at Concord High School in 1983. McAuliffe was a social studies
17:33teacher and taught several courses including American History, Law, and Economics. In addition
17:39to a self-designed course, The American Woman. Krista McAuliffe was chosen by NASA to be the
17:45first citizen in space, a first teacher not. But first of all, she's a teacher and she was cited
17:49for her extraordinary teaching abilities. Krista, what made you decide to become a teacher
17:54originally? When I was growing up, the career opportunities were extremely limited for women.
18:01And I remember going down to a guidance counselor and he said, well, you can be a secretary, an
18:06airline stewardess, a teacher, and or a nurse. And I thought, oh, well, maybe teaching would
18:13be something I'd be interested in. And then when I got into college, I got very interested
18:16in history. And I was trying to decide whether to major in history or maybe go into teaching.
18:22And I decided that secondary education, the older students would be something that I'd
18:27be interested in. It wasn't until I was teaching for my third year that I decided that this is
18:32where I wanted to stay though.
18:33Taking field trips and bringing in speakers were an important part of her teaching techniques.
18:40According to the New York Times, McAuliffe, quote, emphasized the impact of ordinary people
18:46on history, saying they were as important to the historical record as kings, politicians,
18:51or generals. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project and McAuliffe
19:00learned about NASA's efforts to find the first civilian and educator to fly into space. NASA
19:07wanted to find a, quote, ordinary person, unquote, a gifted teacher who could communicate with
19:12students while in orbit. McAuliffe became one of more than 11,000 applicants. I cannot join
19:19the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities
19:25as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early
19:31fantasies. I will never give up. Krista McAuliffe, 1985.
19:36Up close videographer Tony Venti has put together some video we hope will help you and us. Remember,
19:41Krista McAuliffe at her enthusiastic best, and not the few seconds of fire that took her away.
19:47And liftoff, liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission, and it has cleared the tower.
19:55Pieces of ice tumble off as the coldest space shuttle launch ever gets underway. Challenger seems to
20:01shake herself free of the ice and goes. All five rocket engines burning well. The first teacher,
20:07Krista McAuliffe on her way to space with six other astronauts on board.
20:14I am so excited to be here. I thought it was an emotional experience when I was picked. That was
20:18nothing compared to this night. It's super. I am so excited. It's wonderful.
20:30I am delighted to be a representative of the teaching profession,
20:33but it wouldn't be anything unless the adults out there recognized that education was important
20:39and supported their schools, unless the teachers out there truly believed in what they were doing,
20:44and unless you kids out there do the best you can and get the best education you can,
20:49that's what it's all about. She loved teaching, and it was something she never started out doing.
20:56You know, she was a historian. She loved history, and she taught her students through journals.
21:03She had said to me once, Mom, I wish you had written a journal for me, so I would know what your life
21:10was like. And I said, Krista, I can't even stand to write letters. I really hate to write letters.
21:17She used to say to the kids, you know, do you know how important you are? You are very important.
21:23You're going to be running this world someday. You know, that's how important you are. You've got to
21:28learn. You've got to do the best you can. You've got to reach. You've got to stretch yourself.
21:33There are no technical problems this morning. The crew is on its way out to the launch pad,
21:37where they'll be loaded up and get ready to go. And as John mentioned, Krista McAuliffe is going to be
21:44the star of this particular flight.
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