Aviation Story #1 - Brittany Robinson

I was not yet born when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred, but I vaguely remember hearing about it in school. Less than a minute and a half into it's take off on January 28, 1986, one of the parts used for sealing failed and the space shuttle more or less exploded and disintegrated. Amongst the break-up of the Challenger, it is believed that most of the 7 crew members inside of the interior  cabin may have been alive until their downwards impact with the Atlantic Ocean.

The disaster was pretty well-covered in terms of pictures and video, however, new information is still becoming available. About 2 weeks ago, Michael Hindes was looking through his grandmother's belongings after her passing and came across new photos of the Challenger take-off. His grandfather worked for NASA, and supposedly one of his friends took the images and gave his grandfather copies. Hindes didn't know anything about them until just recently! I think it's a really interesting discovery, especially with the realization that tomorrow will be the 28th anniversary of the disaster.







This is one of Hindes' photos. If you go to this link, you can see a series of images of the whole take off, and he also created a really cool GIF of the images at the end of the post.


Extra Challenger information can easily be found on Wikipedia .