Released on june 6 of 1986. But first, the nasa video of the shuttle launch, followed by president reagans remarks to the nation from the oval office five hours after the accident. T 15 seconds. T 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 we have main engine start. 4, 3, 2, 1, and liftoff. Liftoff, the 25th spatial mission has cleared the tower. Confirmed. Challenger now heading downrange. Engines have begun throttling down now. 94 . Normal throttle for most of the plane. Will throttle down to 65 shortly. Engines at 65 , three engines running normally. Velocity, three nautical miles, downrange distance three. Engine is throttling up. 104 . Challenger, go at throttle up. Roger. One minute 15 seconds. Altitude, nine nautical miles. Downrange distance seven nautical miles. Flight controllers here, looking carefully of the situation. Obviously a major malfunction. We have no downlink. We have the report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. We are looking at checking with recovery forces to
Holding steady at 5. 8 . And corporate news, cbs is still on dish network this morning. The two sides failing to reach a deal by last nights deadline. It will continue to be distributed by dish while negotiations continue. And sprb president obama will be announcing his for a new secretary of defense today. Andrew, good morning. Thank you, becky. Stocks to watch this morning, discount retailer five below offering a disappointing Sales Outlook for its keep Holiday Quarter. The Company Naming its new ceo. Gap, better than expected sales. Big drive, its old navy brands. And then American Eagle outfitters warning its Holiday Quarter earnings will fall short of estimates. The teen retailer sales weak mall traffic and online competition is hurting and then theres the result that the Cooper Company is missing wall streets mark. And Fiber Optics Company is posting earnings and revenue blow estimates. Among the reason they say weaker demand for Telecom Products and wiresless application receive
Happening now, new details of the meeting between president obama and congressional leaders for what could be a lastditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. Families in the making ripped apart. Russia officially bans the adoption of russian children by americans. And for the second time in a month, a man pushed to his death from a new york city subway platform in the path of an oncoming train. Wolf blitzer is off. Im Candy Crowley. Youre in the situation room. All eyes on that white house this hour. And the meeting that may be the last best chance to keep the country from going over the fiscal cliff. Right now, the leaders of the house and senate are sitting down with president obama in a search for an 11th hour deal to prevent severe tax hikes and spending cuts from automatically kicking in with the new year. Cnns chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin is getting new details. Jess can ka, what are you hearing about that meeting . Reporter candy, the president is going to explai
We join this event in progress. Good news in one hour on the dot and counting, we are go for lunch. Go for lunch. We are less than one hour. Good read back. Again, we are less than one hour until liftoff. This day is the continuation of regular crew flights to the space station from u. S. Soil. Spacex crew five mission will be the sixth crude crewed spaceflight. Today aircrews flying onboard dragon endurance. It will be the second flight for this capsule and it has been a great countdown so far. The weather is still good for t0. Crew five is go for launch. Copy that, is go for launch. You heard it yourself, crew five is go for launch. We started our coverage earlier today with the crew heading to the launch pad and before that, the spacex team did help them put on their spacesuits and conduct initial checkouts before crew walkout. Crew walkout was where the crew members gave final goodbyes with friends and family gathered outside the operations and checkout building before they began t
And why are we so fascinated with exploring space . Welcome to to morrow to day 50 w sign. Shang september. 3rd 2022. The launch of noses. Autumn is one moon rock. It was a bald head thats happened in the past. The Space Shuttle has had moment where it was returned to the to the Vehicle Assembly building many times, but eventually we will see this fly on the awesome is moon missions. Have several h. V, a. Ryan spacecraft, ottoman one will fly to the moon without crew on board. Its a test for nurses, new space launch system. The alchemist to will carry out to luna fly by with full astronauts on board. With autumn, as 3 astronauts will land on the moon and spend a week exploring its surface, ah, it says half a century after apollo 11 humans could once again walk them in. Maybe one day i might even be on top of it. During his time at the International Space station, alexander gas learned a lot about light and space. Now the afternoon talks about exploring the moon and other heavenly bodie