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00:00Looking at the world as a unit, the people I'm sure who went to the moon, because they
00:18were able to see the whole world as this globe, came back with a much better perspective of
00:25why we all should work together, because we are pretty fragile when you look at the whole
00:28universe.
00:30So maybe as more and more people get out and get that perspective, things are going to
00:34change.
00:58Fun.
01:00Fun.
01:02Fun.
01:04Fun.
01:06Fun.
01:08Fun.
01:10Fun.
02:12Starts Friday. Check newspapers for theaters.
02:16Did you say fish fillets that really look like fish fillets?
02:20Even though we're all living at the beginning of the space age,
02:24and now for TV,
02:26you can get Lenny D's just for me.
02:29Did I hear...
02:30Anyone who can bring that launch...
02:34CBS News, this was Charles Osgood.
02:48So far, so good for the space shuttle Challenger,
02:50which is poised for liftoff about a half hour from now
02:53at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
02:55Earlier, there were high winds aloft,
02:57which could have affected the launch,
02:59but that seems to have cleared up.
03:00Now there's a low, solid deck of clouds over the Cape,
03:03and they say there's a big hole in the clouds about 60 miles wide
03:07that's coming this way but isn't here yet,
03:09and they're wondering whether we'll be here
03:11just in time for the planned launch,
03:13about 37 minutes or so from now.
03:15If they have to wait a few minutes,
03:17they will for that hole to get here, Charles.
03:19Wilson, flying down.
03:20Christopher Glenn at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
03:22More after this.
03:23It was elation that turned to heartbreak.
03:28It was to be a dramatic day for NASA.
03:30Many of the people coming here were excited.
03:31After all, the pictures from Voyager of the planet Uranus
03:34were exciting and unprecedented,
03:36and it was to coincide with the shuttle spaceflight.
03:39And after 19 years, almost to the day,
03:43they instead found that the accident that killed Chaffee,
03:47White, and Grissom almost 19 years ago today
03:49was to be followed by a horrible, horrible day this morning.
03:51This is Mike Wallace at the CBS Newsroom in New York.
03:56America's first three Apollo astronauts
03:58were trapped and killed by a flash fire
04:00that swept their moon ship early tonight
04:02during a launch pad test at Cape Kennedy in Florida.
04:06Virgil Gus Grissom, 40 years old,
04:09one of the original Mercury astronauts,
04:10the first American astronaut to go twice into space.
04:14Edward White, 36 years old,
04:17the first American to walk into space.
04:19and rookie astronaut Roger Chaffee, 31 years old,
04:24training for his first spaceflight, Apollo 1,
04:26scheduled for February 21st.
04:29These three astronauts were aboard their spaceship
04:3110 minutes from a simulated liftoff at Cape Kennedy
04:34when the fire hit at about 6.30 tonight.
04:37They were inside their spaceship, pressurized,
04:41buttoned up inside their spacesuits when the fire hit.
04:44A closed-circuit television camera
04:46was relaying pictures of the astronauts
04:48lying on their backs inside the spacecraft
04:50to top the two-stage Saturn I.
04:52Hey!
05:03I'm still firing the coaster!
05:14I'm a bad fire!
05:16I'm still firing!
05:18I'm still firing!
05:19NASA hoped that sending a teacher into space would increase public interest in the space
05:33shuttle program and also demonstrate the reliability of spaceflight at a time when
05:38the agency was under continuous pressure to find financial support. President Reagan
05:44said it would also remind Americans of the important role that teachers and education
05:50serve in our country. The Council of Chief State School Officers, a non-profit organization of
05:56public officials in education, was chosen by NASA to coordinate the selection process.
06:03Out of the initial applicant pool, 114 semifinalists were nominated by state,
06:08territorial, and agency review panels. McAuliffe was one of two teachers nominated by the
06:14state of New Hampshire. The semifinalists were gathered in Washington, D.C. from June 22nd to 27th,
06:221985, for a conference on space education and to meet with the review panel that would select
06:28the 10 finalists. On July 1st, 1985, McAuliffe was announced as one of the 10 finalists,
06:35and on July 7th, she traveled to Johnson Space Center for a week of thorough medical examinations
06:41and briefings about spaceflight. The finalists were interviewed by an evaluation committee composed of
06:48senior NASA officials, and the committee made recommendations to NASA Administrator James M.
06:54Beggs for the primary and backup candidates for the Teacher in Space project. On July 19th, 1985,
07:02Vice President George H.W. Bush announced that McAuliffe had been selected for the position.
07:08Another teacher, Barbara Morgan, served as her backup. According to Mark Travis of the Concord Monitor,
07:17it was McAuliffe's manner that set her apart from other candidates.
07:21Rally was reported on the national news media last night that the city of Concord was throwing a parade
07:26for Krista McAuliffe, and that of course is not the truth. She is joining the Lions Club and helping
07:31to celebrate the parade here, but this parade was scheduled long before Krista McAuliffe applied for
07:36the space program. Look at her with the thumbs up. There it is. She is getting a nice round of applause
07:41from a big crowd here. We're at School Street and Main Street telecasting for Channel 12.
07:46I would assume those are the two young McAuliffe children with her.
07:52We're going to take this time out here as we watch America's first teacher astronaut pass by
07:58the Channel 12 cameras, and we'll be back right after this time out.
08:01NASA official Alan Ladwig said, quote, she had an infectious enthusiasm, unquote,
08:08and NASA psychiatrist Terrence McGuire told New Woman magazine that, quote,
08:13she was the most broad-based, best-balanced person of the 10, unquote.
08:19Later that year, McAuliffe and Morgan each took a year-long leave of absence from teaching
08:25in order to train for a space shuttle mission in early 1986. NASA paid both their salaries.
08:32Why ain't that not? If you're used to working with small children,
08:35you shouldn't have any trouble with us, so. I'm used to working with 11th and 12th graders,
08:40but you're right. While not a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, McAuliffe was to be part
08:45of the STS-51L crew and would conduct experiments and teach lessons from space.
08:52Her planned duties included basic science experiments in the fields of chromatography,
08:58hydroponics, magnetism, and Newton's law. She was also planning to conduct two 15-minute classes from
09:06space, including a tour of the spacecraft called The Ultimate Field Trip, and a lesson about the
09:12benefits of space travel called Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why.
09:17Challenger Houston, we have good teachers TV. Go ahead with the lesson, Krista.
09:22Okay. Good morning. This is Krista McAuliffe, live from the Challenger, and I'm going to be taking
09:31you through a field trip. I'm going to start out introducing you to two very important members
09:36of the crew. The first one is Commander Scobie, who is sitting to my left, and the second one is
09:42Michael Smith. Now, Commander Scobie is going to tell you a little bit about flying the orbiter,
09:47and Commander Smith, excuse me, Pilot Smith is going to be telling you a little bit about the Spock,
09:52which is the computer that is used on board.
09:56Okay. After they talk about that, I'm going to be talking about the seats and how people are seated
10:04during takeoff, and I'll be pointing to the two seats or the positions on the floor. Then I'm going
10:13to be going to the aft flight deck and show how it can be flown from the back, pointing to the payload bay
10:21windows. I'm going to be standing right here because Dick's going to be in this seat, and Mike is going to
10:26be kind of balanced to his right with the Spock on his lap. He's going to pull the Spock out, and he's going
10:33to be over here. Now, the camera that is right over here should pick me up coming down.
10:46Want to talk about the bathroom first? Is that what we decided? Oh, handheld mic. Okay.
10:55Yeah, I wish I had mine. Ron's going to be standing right here. Okay. Once I get down to the mid-deck,
11:03I'll be talking about the WCS. Can you see the WCS? Yes. Okay. This is how we dehydrate the food,
11:12and he will do the container for me since I have the handheld mic. He'll do it right.
11:18Okay. Showing how the drink container works, and then he'll put that back on. Okay. At that point,
11:27he's going to, well, I think we left it open. He's going to open up one of the lockers,
11:38and it's just going to be a clothing locker, and it's going to have the restraints here,
11:43so I can explain to the kids that everything has to be held down because otherwise we'd have a problem
11:49with things floating away. It'd be nice to end with the space station. Krista, the widest frame
11:56should be from the edge of the lockers to the galley. So as I'm putting it together, and then
12:04I wanted to be able to let it go, you know, and show how it's going to look in space because I think
12:12it's hard for kids to realize that you can build something that's not attached to anything,
12:18but in zero gravity you can do that, or, you know, in space you can do that. So at that point,
12:23I wanted to be able to let it go, and I think it might be fun for the kids to know about the chicks
12:29in space because they can certainly relate a lot better perhaps to eggs than they can to the other
12:36two experiments. All right, so I'll be doing the the liquid marshmallows, otherwise known as cotton
12:46balls, and beans. Whoops, the zero gravity environment is just awful. The lessons were to be broadcast
12:56to millions of school children via closed circuit tv. To record her thoughts, McAuliffe intended to keep a
13:03personal journal like a, quote, woman of the Conestoga wagons pioneering the west, unquote.
13:10According to NASA, the Challenger disaster had such a significant effect on the nation,
13:15in part because of the excitement over McAuliffe's presence on the shuttle. Many school children were
13:21viewing the launch live, and the media coverage of the accident was extensive. This morning there's
13:27some concern about high altitude winds, but the countdown continues. This is the 10th
13:33trip into space for the shuttle Challenger. The crew includes the first teacher knot, educator
13:37Kristen McAuliffe, is to conduct classes from space during the mission. CNN will carry the launch live
13:43whenever. Liftoff is set for 9 37 a.m eastern time, that's 6 37 on the west coast. Evidently has a stripped
13:50screw that is stuck, and they're going to have to drill it out. They've also had some problems with the
13:56micro switches around the hatch, not sealing properly. They opened it several times. One crew
14:02member from the closeout team went inside and worked on the hatch at that point, and they are now
14:09drilling out the handle. The handle is only used on the ground, and they will have to take that handle
14:15off and put the insulation on before they can fly. They are at T-9 minutes and holding now, holding for a
14:22break in the weather. It is a scheduled 10-minute hold, but they're hoping that the problems with the
14:27weather will clear up, and they are also hoping that they can get this handle off to allow them
14:33hopefully to launch on time. A little earlier this morning, they paid homage to the teacher that is
14:38going into space. There you see the mortar warden, one of the members of the closeout crew, saluting the
14:44teacher, Kristen McAuliffe, as she comes up to go inside Challenger for her trip to space. There you see her.
14:51She will be the first teacher to travel into space, and we'll have classrooms going on from the space
15:00shuttle that will now occur a little later than originally scheduled. But we are waiting now for
15:07the problems with the hatch to be cleared up. You can see the handle right on the right-hand side of
15:14the hatch that they're going to be using a drill. They have all the equipment up there, but it's simply
15:19a matter of taking that handle off and removing the closeout crew. Normally these people would be,
15:25a screw is stripped on a handle that is supposed to come out before the space shuttle can take off.
15:31They have to put some insulation on that door you see there. They're waiting now for a drill and the
15:36proper bits to drill the screw off the handle so they can remove the handle and go ahead and put the
15:42insulation on. They estimate that they may be 25 minutes to one hour in doing that work.
15:48But yesterday they knew they had problems today. NASA says there is no exact amount of temperature
15:55that they have to scrub under. You see some of the ice down in the area underneath the launch pad.
16:02That's giving them fits right now because they have some air, some water suppression bags down in the
16:07bottom. And that's typically how they'll test to see whether they're able to go ahead or not. They'll
16:12go down and kick these bags and if they slush around it's not frozen so they will be able to continue.
16:19The computer problem that caused them to move the fueling back by one hour was because of the
16:27cold temperatures in the area. Here you see the crew just a few moments ago coming out of their crew
16:32quarters area for the second time in as many days. But NASA is fairly optimistic this morning. The
16:38weather is not a factor except for the temperatures. They have pretty much clear skies in the areas.
16:44The area, the landing site area of the shuttle, Patrick, and we're looking for temperatures to
16:49climb into the 40s here this afternoon. But now that they're above freezing and there's a great amount
16:52of sunshine, plus they have a team out there working on getting the ice sickles off the service structure
16:58of the shuttle. So hopefully we'll go ahead. Let's go down to the Kennedy Space Center and take a look
17:02at Challenger sitting on the pad as they continue the countdown. They started the auxiliary power
17:08units about a minute ago and that is one of the major milestones to continuing the countdown and
17:15counting. Gimbal checks now complete. Let's go for each yellow temperature station. Um kind of but I mean
17:24I'll be real psyched when it goes up though. I wish it'd go up. I want to see it.
17:30They are not the only ones that want to see it. All of America is watching and waiting to see if the
17:36ice on the pad will ice the shuttle permanently to its structure. Once again the live picture of the ice
17:42buildup. The countdown has been moved back several times today because of the weather. It is sub-freezing
17:49there now and causing uh some great great concern about the ice. If they do not go today because
17:56they have already fueled the external tanks a second time. They fueled yesterday and again today
18:01and if they are not able to get off today it will be a 48-hour turnaround. They're going to knock off the
18:07two-foot icicles that are on the pad. Hopefully that will enable Challenger to break loose from its launch
18:14pad and get underway. They have moved the countdown several times today. Here's a look at what the ice
18:20looks like on the pad. Very unusual for the Kennedy Space Center with the temperatures below freezing
18:2624 degrees this morning when they went out to the pad. There was some concern that these icicles,
18:31if the Challenger did launch, would damage the heat tiles underneath it. So they decided to go out and
18:36knock them off before they attempt to resume the countdown. The countdown clock is running now.
18:41The shuttle sits on the pad waiting. They have been inside for a few hours this morning. Not quite
18:48what it was yesterday morning when they were in almost six hours sitting on their back waiting to go.
18:52But as it appears now 11 38 will be the optimum time. Other than the ice there are no serious weather
18:59problems. The winds are calm and the skies are clear. So as it stands right now 11 38 eastern time will be
19:08the next scheduled launch time unless it's put off again. Molly? Coming up on the 30 second point in our countdown.
19:15T minus 30 seconds and we've had a go for auto sequence start. The SRV hydraulic power units have started.
19:24T minus 21 seconds and the solid rocket booster engine gimbal now underway. T minus 15 seconds.
19:36T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. We have main engine start. 4, 3, 2, 1 and liftoff.
19:49Liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower.
19:53Woo!
19:54My crew!
19:55My crew!
19:57My crew!
19:59My crew!
20:01Good roll program.
20:03Woo!
20:03Challenger now heading downrange.
20:05Engines beginning throttling down now at 94 percent. Normal throttles for most of the flight 104 percent.
20:24We'll throttle down to 65 percent shortly.
20:29Beautiful blue sky. Crystal clear weather here in Florida although it's very cold.
20:34Only three fuel cells. Three good APUs.
20:38Everything's going well.
20:39Velocity 2200, 57 feet per second.
20:42Now pursuit four point.
20:43One minute in.
20:43One minute in.
20:44Three minutes in.
20:44Three minutes in.
20:45Three minutes in.
20:45Three minutes in.
20:46Three minutes in.
20:47And across from me hundreds of school kids jumping up and down and cheering as this
20:51space shuttle takes off with teacher Crystal McCullough on board.
20:55Go and throttle up.
20:58And that means the engines are running well.
21:00Two and a half minutes into the flight the solid rocket boosters will drop away and we should be able to see it.
21:04What's happening?
21:11Still going.
21:13Big did something strange happen then?
21:15Something is gone.
21:16A miss.
21:17Something is wrong.
21:19We have a problem.
21:20Nothing from mission control but I can see pieces of something falling off the side as if one of the solid rocket boosters had come away early Bob.
21:29It's still climbing.
21:30The shuttle is still climbing but there is a problem.
21:32There appears to be a serious problem.
21:35What's happening?
21:36Not a word from mission control.
21:38Everybody here is open-mouthed.
21:39Controllers here looking very carefully at the situation.
21:42Where is the shuttle Vic?
21:43Can you see it?
21:44Major malfunction.
21:45Can I get down?
22:01Can I get down?
22:11Can I keep running?
22:15Can I get down?
22:16Can I get down?
22:16Go ahead.
22:17Can I get down?
22:18Can I get down?
22:20Can I get down?
22:24Can I get down?
22:26Okay.
22:28No kidding.
22:33We have some reports from made by dynamic
23:03that the vehicle has exploded.
23:05My director confirms that we are looking at
23:07checking with the recovery forces
23:09to see what can be done at this point.
23:13Can we get the cameras?
23:17Coming down in the sky,
23:19but it's not known if anyone survived.
23:22In fact, NASA said shortly afterwards
23:24that nobody had survived.
23:26Those are the latest pictures we're receiving now.
23:28That's all. What can be done?
23:33What can be done?
23:35What can be done?
23:37What can be done?
23:39What can be done?
23:41What can be done?
23:43What can be done?
23:45What can be done?
23:47What can be done?
23:49What can be done?
23:51What can be done?
23:53What can be done?
23:55What can be done?
23:57What can be done?
23:59We have Edward and Grace, Oregon.
24:06We're about three and a half miles away from the area of the launch pad and the VIP launch area.
24:29The families of the astronauts normally in the grandstands.
24:50Thomas John Zarela flew out from the Cape earlier when all of us first saw the blast.
24:58There was a moment of stunned silence and disbelief.
25:02Many people perhaps did confuse it with the booster rockets.
25:11But it was far too early and far too big an explosion.
25:18And it took a while, I'm sure, for it to sink in in the minds of the parents and the school children.
25:27You see Mr. and Mrs. Corrigan, who's still standing, saying a silent prayer.
25:36How many crews have we got?
25:38Two.
25:39Okay, so we've got four crews.
25:40Two quarters.
25:41We've got three.
25:42How many at the space center?
25:43We don't worry about the air.
25:44We'll worry about everything else.
25:45He's leaving.
25:46Stand by to voice over this picture.
25:48Stand by.
25:49Shut up in here.
25:50Open their mics.
25:51Can you get to the airport in time and just meet that plane and say get back on the plane with tickets?
26:06Whoever isn't necessary right now, please move back into the pit.
26:10Graphics, I need pictures of the crew, please.
26:13We've got three.
26:14We are not, we're not sure that we know that C-130 was in the area and that medical personnel were dispensed by parachute down into the water to search for survivors.
26:26A BZ truck.
26:28Okay, hired by WBZ.
26:30In, right there.
26:31Alright?
26:32We don't, there's no name on the truck.
26:33We don't know whose it is.
26:35Her parents watched it from the VIP site three and a half miles from the launch pad.
26:38Hugged each other and stopped.
26:40Watching the fireball.
26:41Let's get it.
26:42Yeah, let's get it.
26:43How many we do that?
26:56Yeah.
26:57All right.
26:58OK, let's get it.
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27:00I'm sorry.
27:01I'll see you too soon.
27:03All right.
27:04Ok,jest Sixthep go.
27:06I'm sorry.
27:07He has any message that's no hope and anyone can receive that opportunity, disrespect to these current actions that are exposed
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