The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster And The Accident Investigation With Hoot Gibson

The Space Challenger, and the Columbia Disasters. Reflections On The Space Shuttle Program With Hoot Gibson, who was part of the investigation on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
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The interview is not just about uncovering the accidents; it's also about celebrating the monumental achievements and benefits of the Space Shuttle Program. Despite the heart-wrenching accidents, the Space Shuttle Program has played a pivotal role in advancing human exploration of space. It revolutionized space travel, allowing astronauts to conduct groundbreaking scientific experiments, deploy satellites, repair crucial infrastructure, and inspire generations to reach for the stars.

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[slapeters]

My daughter and I were lucky enough to have been selected to have lunch with Hoot at Space Camp in 2014. We paid for the special “lunch with an astronaut”, but then we somehow got selected to sit at his table. We had an amazing conversation prior to his presentation to our group, and he made us feel so welcome. He was extremely great with my 9 year old, asked her a lot of questions, made her feel ‘important’ and was definitely an influence on her choice to study science in college now at age 19. Thank you Captain Gibson - you are a national treasure and we’ve been lucky to have you as a leader in our country’s space program.

[mymomsaysimcool]

My step father was on recovery duty for Challenger and Columbia. He said after Columbia he couldn’t do it anymore because he worked with the astronauts for mission planning and training, primarily payload deployment and recovery and got to know the payload specialists.

He been on since Apollo.

[hallquiche]

One of the big things I took away from everything I've read and watched on the Challenger disaster, was Allan McDonald's part in ensuring safer space travel afterwards.
For those who don't know, he was an engineer at Morton-Thiokol, the manufacturer of the solid rocket boosters used on the space shuttles, and one of the few people who recommended not launching Challenger because of low temperatures, which some engineers worried would lead the infamous O-rings to become brittle and leak fuel, which in the end was what led to the accident. The engineers were eventually forced by their employer (Morton-Thiokol) to green light the launch, which M-T tried to deny during the investigation. Allan McDonald testified against his employer, saying that he had warned them of the potential danger of launching in cold temperatures, which essentially cost him his career at Morton, but only after being one of the chief designers of the new SRB's used on all subsequent STS-missions. I have a huge amount of admiration for integrity like that. 

Allan McDonald sadly passed away a few years ago at the age of 83.

[sandyhanson]

I think Hoot Gibson is a true American hero!👍

[paulh]

Had the great and unexpected pleasure of meeting Hoot Gibson on a visit to NASA in 2009. A true gentleman, generous with his time and happy to talk all things Shuttle. Something I'll always remember.

[manjsher]

Soon as I saw this was Hoot I knew I would watch to the end! Not disappointed, terrible incident but Hoot is a treasure.

[Guspech]

This videos are fanfreakingtastick! It still saddens me seeing these tragedies. Even the ones before I was born.

[wjewell]

I was sitting at a red light in Tampa and saw it happening live..it was a shock..

[pateva]

I appreciate Gibson's honesty in wanting to go back to the big black again. He's grateful for his turns as he called it. Of course he's like a kid in wanting to go again and again.
I know I would.

[apollosaturn]

STS-27 was a symptom that NASA didn't learned the lessons of the Challenger disaster, it kept a "business as usual" attitude. On STS-27 the engineers' findings were not communicated to the astronauts and the same thing happened on STS-107, except that this time the crew got killed.

[JourneyRiderVlog]

Hoot’s a great man. He piloted my uncle’s Sea Fury for several years at the Reno air races and later spoke at his memorial after he passed a couple of years ago. He’s had such a great set of experiences. I hope he writes a book.

[jshepard]

The shuttle orbiter had a couple thousand buttons, switches, and circuit breakers. The guys who actually flew the shuttle, the CDR and Pilot, are a special breed. I bet Hoot could dive into real detail on those systems if he had the time, and inclination.

[GWA]

Fascinating stuff! Thanks, gentlemen!

[cyphaborg]

Making space travel routine is a challenge by itself.
Breaking free from Earth's gravitation was already a monumental accomplishment.

[mclarenscca]

I was a senior in high school, and was in my electronics vocational class, watching the launch live when this happened. We just happened to be recording it on a VHS recorder, that I repaired the day before. This was a half day class, and we spent the rest of the time we had left, watching the footage over and over then discussing it. We all agreed that an O-ring blew out, and caused this horrific accident. Everyone was very somber during this whole time, and discussing what happened, helped us thru the days after.

[jude]

I can't even fly coach without panickng, I don't know how astronauts have the guts. How they get that 100s of tons of space craft into space is beyond my comprehension.

[vincevincentg]

His comment about watching the ailerons makes me wonder if the Columbia crew did the same thing knowing they had potential wing damage.

[Grnademaster]

Challenger was the 25th mission. We continued on to launch another 110 times, he said. 2 disasters out of 135 launches then. Failure rate is 1.4%. Would you say beam me up Scotty knowing that's how it would be?

[NickJohnCoop]

I was 5 years old. I don’t remember the disaster itself, being Australian and from Perth, but I do remember the episode of Punky Brewster which dealt with disaster. It was a good way of making very young children understand what had happened and how we could deal with it.

[nmz]

16:16 haunting photo, I forgot that Greg Jarvis, who perished with Challenger, had been bumped from STS-61C to STS-25 so that the politician could fly.