220: The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Did NASA Knowingly Put Astronauts In Harm's Way?

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:17.6	Welcome back to my Ohio podcast episode 200 and 1T.
0:23.2	Today we are going to be talking about one of the most impactful, memorable, and tragic
0:30.7	events in American history.
0:32.8	And that is the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.
0:36.0	Yeah, it was really an event that really put NASA in a very, very bad place as well.
0:45.0	Because at the time, space travel, space exploration was like new fresh, well, it wasn't brand
0:51.4	new.
0:52.4	It was still like this very, very exciting thing at the time.
0:56.6	And at the time, the program had been around for a while now.
1:00.2	And so there had been a number of successful flights on the space shuttles.
1:06.0	So people were starting to think, this was sort of the next frontier.
1:09.9	It's like commercial aviation at this point, it's safe.
1:14.0	And then this event happened and it just completely shattered all of that.
1:18.4	Yeah, it seemed like a lot of people lost kind of their faith in NASA.
1:22.4	Right.
1:23.4	Oh, yeah.
1:24.4	This, yeah, this, this event has got a lot, a lot to it.
1:28.3	And much more than I ever realized.
1:30.3	Yeah, yeah, especially since seems like NASA may have known that this could have potentially
1:36.3	happened.
1:37.3	Oh, no, I think that's safe to say they fucking knew that this would likely could happen.
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