Challenger Crawling Inside the Mist to Her Fatal Destiny [Video]

There’s something eerie and intensely sad about this pretty photo of the distance Shuttle Challenger, crawling inside the mist to Launch Complex 39-B. Days later, on January 28, 1986, the spacecraft disintegrated 73 seconds after lift-off, killing all astronauts aboard.

I remember watching the launch at home, just a kid about to move to highschool, crying in disbelief. I just couldn’t know the way this happened. It was only then once I understood the courage of those humans strapping themselves to tanks filled with liquid oxygen. NASA commentator’s words-” obviously, a serious malfunction” -and the silence from ground control will resonate inside me forever. This photo makes me realize that the shitstorm can come at any time and, sometimes, irrespective of how hard you are trying, things explode in a gigantic ball of fireplace. [ Ibeching ]

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