| Challenger Disaster Live on CNN - 143 sec
January 28th, 1986 at 11:39am EDT - The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes on its 10th flight during mission STS-51-L. The explosion occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and was actually the result of rapid deceleration and not combustion of fuel.
CNN was the only national news station to broadcast the mission live, so thus what you are witnessing on this video is the only coverage of the disaster as it happened when it did. Approximately 17% of Americans witnessed the launch live, while 85% of Americans heard of the news within 1 hour of the event. According to a study, only 2 other times in history up to that point had news of an event disseminated so fast - the first being the announcement of JFK's assassination in 1963, the second being news spread among students at Kent State regarding the news of FDR's death in 1945. It has been estimated at the time that nearly 48% of 9-13 year olds witnessed the event in their classrooms, as McAuliffe was in the spotlight.
The 25th Space Shuttle mission altered the history of manned space exploration and represented the first loss of an American crew during a space mission (Apollo 1 was during a training exercise).
Christa McAuliffe was slated to be the first teacher in space for the Teacher in Space Program. As her maximum altitude was ~65,000ft (12.31 miles), she never made it to space. That title was given to Barbara Morgan of STS-118 aboard the shuttle Endeavour in August 2007, 22 and a half years after the Challenger Disaster. Morgan served as McAuliffe's backup during STS-51-L. As Morgan is now part of the Educator in Space Program, she will be credited as the first "educator" in space, to distinguish her from McAuliffe.
Aboard Challenger during STS-51-L:
Francis "Dick" Scobee (Commander)
Michael Smith (Pilot)
Judith Resnik (Mission Specialist)
Ellison Onizuka (Mission Specialist)
Ronald McNair (Mission Specialist)
Gregory Jarvis (Payload Specialist)
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (Payload Specialist - Teacher in Space)
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| Sum 41 - Walking Disaster - 283 sec
Music video by Sum 41 performing Walking Disaster
with Stephen Penta, Greg Jones, Amanda Fox
(C) 2007 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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| Jon McLaughlin - Beautiful Disaster - 275 sec
Music video by Jon McLaughlin performing Beautiful Disaster with Jon McLaughlin, Jamie Houston
(C) 2007 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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| TV Disaster - 244 sec
Watch Merry Miller make a fool of herself... Turns out anyone can get on TV. Poor Holly Hunter.
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| Jon McLaughlin - Beautiful Disaster - 265 sec
Music video by Jon McLaughlin performing Beautiful Disaster
with Adam Baxter, Pamela Littky
(C) 2007 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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| Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster - 219 sec
Music video by Cowboy Junkies performing A Common Disaster
(C) 1996 Geffen Records
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| Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster - 176 sec
Just wanna share this, good live performance, great version.
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| 311 - Beautiful Disaster - 246 sec
Music video for Beautiful Disaster.
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| Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century - 309 sec
For over 100 years conventional medicine has seized control of the US health care system and as a result we have over 800,000 people who are killed by interacting with this system. It is likely that over 50 million Americans have died prematurely from this abuse.
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| Tony Blair Tells David Frost War in Iraq is a Disaster - 528 sec
On Al-Jazeera English Sir David Frost interviews British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who admits (albeit in passing) that the war in Iraq is a disaster. They also talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Tags:david frost tony blair aljazeera al-jazeera jazeera television tv iraq israel palestine middle east
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| Formula for Disaster Part 1 - 473 sec
This eye-opening documentary reveals how the marketing of powdered milk has caused fewer mothers to breastfeed in the Philippines - including those who can ill afford artificial milk and suffer its harmful consequences. The milk companies' formula for profits is a formula for disaster.
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Tags:Breastfeed breastmilk milk formula infant marketing mothers health nutrition UNICEF WHO DoH Philippines
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| Fischerspooner: Natural Disaster - 359 sec
Gilles Nantet racing his Porsche 911 in the Rallye du Mont-Blanc 2003.
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| Hindenburg disaster - 72 sec
This is the original reel about the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937, Lakehurst.
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| Fingerprint Biometric Disaster - 460 sec
The Mythbusters trick a fingerprint lock on a door.
The "joys" of using a "secure" fingerprint to pay for things in a cashless society is discussed by fox news and in a British school cafeteria.
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Tags:Fingerprint Biometrics Cashless Society locks sensors
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| Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism - 515 sec
Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
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| Flirting with disaster - Molly Hatchet - 306 sec
dumb slide show that features music by Molly Hatchet
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| Exodus Fabulous Disaster - 302 sec
Exodus playing Fabulous Disaster 1989
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| Walking Disaster- Sum 41 - 285 sec
The new song walking disaster from the album underclass hero. By far the best sum 41 song ever!!!. Thanks to Nic from the theresnosolution and punk disasters forum for the mp3.
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| Village at the heart of Myanmar disaster - 130 sec
One of Al Jazeera's correspondents in Myanmar has managed to reach the area worst-hit by Cyclone Nargis and hear for the first time eye-witness accounts of the true scale of the disaster.
This report is from a remote village at the heart of the Irrawaddy delta.
For her own safety, we are not naming our correspondent.
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| Tacoma Bridge Disaster - 265 sec
Color video of the The Narrows Tacoma Bridge Disaster of 1940. Before asking questions, please visit this wiki article, which has a lot of information on its collapse and why it happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Bridge#Galloping_Gertie
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