18th. Pilot mike smith, followed by christa mcauliffe. Payload specialist greg jarvis. 30 years ago on january 28, 198, the Space Shuttle challenger 73 seconds after liftoff taking the lives of seven crew members pictured up. Up next on American History tvs reel america, a 1986 nasa video report detailing the causes of the disaster. The conclusions are the findings of the president ial commission on the Space Shuttle accident released on june 6 of 1986. First, nasas video of the shuttle launch followed by president reagans remarks to the nation from the oval office about five hours after the accident. T minus 15 seconds. T minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six we have main engine start four, three, two, one, and liftoff. Liftoff of the 25th Space Shuttle mission. And it has cleared the tower. Rock and roll, challenger. Confirmed. Challenger now heading down range. Engines beginning throttling down. At 94 . Normal throttle for most of the flight, 104 . Will throttle down to 65 shortly. Eng
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Engines beginning throttling down. 94 . Normal throttle for most of the flight, 104 . Will throttle down to 65 shortly. Engines at 65 . Three engines running normally, three good fuel cells. 2257 feet per seconds. Three nautical miles. Engines throttling up. Three engines at 104 . Challenger, go with throttle up. One minute 15 seconds. Altitude nine nautical miles. Flight control looking carefully at the situation. Obviously, a major malfunction. We have no down link. We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. Director confirms that. We are looking at checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done at this point. Ladies and gentlemen, i had planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the union. The events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and i are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people
Civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here. Our hopes and our journeys continue. I want to add that i wish i could talk to every man and woman who works for nasa or who worked on this mission and tell them, your dedication and professionalism has moved and impressed us for decades and we know of your anguish. We share it. Theres a coincidence today. On this day, 390 years ago, the great explorer sir Francis Drake died aboard a ship off the coast of panama. In his lifetime, the great frontiers were the oceans and the historians later said, he lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it. Well, today, we can say of the challenger crew, their dedication was like drakes complete. The crew of the Space Shuttle challenger honored us in the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth, to touch the face of god. Thank you.
Washington journal begins live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. On september 14, 1986, president and mrs. Reagan made a rare joint address from the white house residence carried live on national television. Their message was on drug abuse. First lady nancy reagan, who died on march 6 at the age of 94, urged young people to just say no to drugs, an antidrug abuse strategy she had been promoting since 1982. Good evening. Usually, i talk with you from my office in the west wing of the white house. But tonight, theres Something Special to talk about and ive asked someone very special to skroin me. Nancy and i are here in the west hall of the white house and around us are the rooms in which we live. Its the home you have provided for us of which we merely have temporary custody. Nancy is joining me because the message this evening is not my message but ours. And we speak to you not simply as fellow citizens but as fellow parents and grandparents and as concerned neighbors. It is back