{"id":969,"date":"2011-01-27T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T23:45:26","slug":"obviously-a-major-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2011\/01\/27\/obviously-a-major-malfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obviously A Major Malfunction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, on January 28, 1986\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Challenger_space_shuttle\" target=\"_blank\">Space Shuttle Challenger<\/a> was destroyed during launch, costing the lives of astronauts <a title=\"Dick Scobee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Scobee\" target=\"_blank\">Francis &#8220;Dick&#8221; Scobee<\/a>, <a title=\"Michael J. Smith (astronaut)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_J._Smith_(astronaut)\" target=\"_blank\">Michael J. Smith<\/a>, <a title=\"Ellison Onizuka\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellison_Onizuka\" target=\"_blank\">Ellison Onizuka<\/a>, <a title=\"Judith Resnik\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Resnik\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Resnik<\/a>, <a title=\"Ronald McNair\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_McNair\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald McNair<\/a>, <a title=\"Christa McAuliffe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christa_McAuliffe\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Christa McAuliffe<\/a> and <a title=\"Greg Jarvis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Jarvis\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Jarvis<\/a>. Their brief flight (STS-51-L) was the 25th shuttle launch.<\/p>\n<p>By the time, shuttle flights had become routine and were hardly covered in the news. I was exiting the subway station Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria when I heard the shocking news on a radio, which a storekeeper had sitting on the counter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"450\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljPYmSdyVZc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3428\">Did Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard Ever Work On Mount Wilson?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3340\">RIP James Arthur Lovell Jr. (March 25, 1928 \u2013 August 7, 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3307\">The Moon Voyagers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3208\">Size Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, on January 28, 1986\u00a0Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed during launch, costing the lives of astronauts Francis &#8220;Dick&#8221; Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis. Their brief flight (STS-51-L) was the 25th shuttle launch. By the time, shuttle flights had become routine and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america-english","category-english","category-spaceflight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}