January 28th, 1986
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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The above video file is, I believe, the only complete full-length video of the Challenger space shuttle disaster available on the Internet.  In my searches of cyberspace over the years I have only found either fragments of the video footage (such as of the explosion itself), audio-only .wav files or postage-stamp-sized video-only .mpg files, none of which, in my opinion, truly does justice to the memory of that day or to the memory of the seven brave souls who perished so publicly while seeking to forge another link to our future; therefore, I have decided to create and post the complete video myself.  In this new millennium, there is no longer a single American school student in grades one through twelve who was a student in school on that fateful morning when what was to be the "ultimate field trip" ended in tragedy, no longer a single grade-school or high school student who has a personal memory of sitting in a classroom or in an auditorium that day to watch the "Teacher in Space" present her lessons from the next frontier... only instead to watch her and her crewmates pass over to the final frontier.  It is for the sake of preserving the memory of these seven heroes and of their sacrifice that I have developed this site.

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