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My dad sent me this…

I’m not crying… no. Yeah. I am crying.

not that anyone should really care what one jin guangyao stan blog has to say about NASA or the american space program, but:

now that artemis ii has made a safe return to our pale blue dot in the universe, i feel like i can share this video and not harsh too much on the (very understandable, and shared!) moon joy that has been lighting up the world since april 1. and to be clear, i don't share this documentary with the intent of ruining or dispelling any of that joy; i was watching the artemis ii livestream right alongside so many of you, and i teared up just like the astronauts did when they proposed naming that bright crater on the far side of the moon carroll. but i do think that this specific documentary is one of the best, if not *the* best, thoroughly nuanced breakdowns of NASA's most historic failure, and all of the ways that failure absolutely could have, and SHOULD have, been avoided.

as we as a species enter a new phase of human spaceflight, i think it is more important than ever for us to really reckon with these ghosts of the past, so they don't become prescient augurs for our future. to quote one of the commenters in this video's comments section, "I knew about the engineers getting overruled the night before [challenger's launch]. I did not know that the o-ring problem was discovered on the very first test firings of the SRBs."

#been sitting on these thoughts for so long now and i felt it would be in bad taste to say anything about them #until after the astronauts actually made it safely back to earth #NASA is so important to me personally #i grew up in a NASA town and i have family who worked on the apollo and saturn programs #(or was it gemini rather than saturn. anyway)#i don't say any of this because i want to shit on NASA #and i definitely don't share this video to ruin the good vibes #but my biggest fear right now is that given the economic landscape we're in right now #it isn't a matter of if we will experience another fully preventable tragedy #but when #challenger space shuttle #NASA #Youtube

(Obviously inspired by the Artemis 2 mission)

Oddity

For humanity, they said.

For Georgy, Viktor, Vladislav,

For Vladimir and Michael A.

For Gregory, Christa, Ronald, Ellison,

Judith, Michael and Dick.

For Rick, Ilan, William, David, Michael S, Laurel and Kalpana.

All of their journeys among the stars continue on.

For the patron saint of one way trips and the saint of achieving the impossible, their paws guiding the way.

For the man who saw the earth from the galaxy first, and lived to tell the tale.

And for those who muttered those famous words, “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

For those who have come back to tell us what they have seen.

For those who saw Earth as a speck of dust.

For those who realized the universe is something to behold.

Godspeed, Artemis.

Welcome home.

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When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.”

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, Adam Higginbotham

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Challenger’s explosion, January 1986.

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Top Ten Livestream Fails of All Time

The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

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Challenger Disaster Reminds Us Why Blacks Don't Belong in Space

The fate of the Space Shuttle Challenger is told in the massive fireball it ended up in and is a warning of the dangers of mixing rocket engineering with social engineering.

San Francisco, CA - On the 32nd anniversary of the Challenger disaster, NASA finally comes to terms with the high price for using its precious space shuttles for political agendas. On January 28, 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into flight, killing all seven crew members on board, including a schoolteacher and only the second black astronaut in history at that time, Ronald McNair. After the investigation, NASA concluded that an O-ring seal in the space shuttle's right solid rocket booster had failed at liftoff and that it was never designed to fly under extremely cold conditions. The morning of January 28 was particularly cold and the mission of the Challenger was politically significant, carrying not only a female schoolteacher, but the second black astronaut in U.S. history. But the Challenger mission was doomed from the start.

RELATED: NASA CUTS BLACK ASTRONAUT FROM SPACE MISSION FOR LACK OF SKILL

Challenger was originally set to launch from Cape Canaveral on January 22, 1986, but delays in the previous mission caused the launch date to be rolled back to January 23 and then January 24. But bad weather at the Transoceanic Abort Landing site in Dakar, Senegal, which is in west Africa, caused the launch to be pushed back again to January 25. Bad weather at Cape Canaveral on January 26 scotched the launch to January 27, but problems with an exterior access hatch and a stripped bolt on the Challenger pushed the launch to January 28. Forecasts for January 28 put temperatures at the usually balmy Kennedy Space Center at an unusually frigid 30 degrees Fahrenheit - the absolute minimum permitted for launch, with the Challenger never having been certified to launch at such low temperatures.

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