![]() ![]() (…) NASA revealed the chilling truth: at best, the crew of the doomed shuttle knew, if only for a few seconds, that something was terribly wrong. That, at least, is what most Americans have believed for the past six months. 28, the Challenger was smashed to pieces, instantly killing the shuttle astronauts. T+01:13 Smith: Uh-oh! Just three seconds after Commander Francis Scobee radioed "Roger, go at throttle up" last Jan. T+01:10 Scobee: Roger, go at throttle up. (Airspeed indicator check) T+01:07 Smith: Yep. T+01:02 Smith: 35,000, going through one point five. T+00:28 Smith: There’s 10,000 feet and mach point five. It’s a little hard to see out my window here. (reminds flight crew about switch from a ground-based to a vehicle-based frame of reference – Local Vertical Local Horizontal) Sh… hot! (Originally deleted by NASA NSF “language filter” would read “crap”…) T+00:16 Scobee: Okay! T+00:19 Smith: Looks like we’ve got a lot of wind up here today. (Florida Today, July 29, 1986) T-00:00 Resnik: Alright! T+00:01 Smith: Here we go! T+00:07 Scobee: Houston, we have a roll program. Transcripts show that Pilot Smith said "Uh-oh" the split second before Challenger was destroyed. Monday, J– “Uh-oh!” Challenger Pilot Michael Smith and Commander Francis "Dick" Scobee "probably knew something was wrong just as all communications with the shuttle were lost," NASA chief Richard Truly said at a press conference. ![]()
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