Xref: utzoo sci.space.shuttle:7044 sci.space:27212 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript Message-ID: <73191734@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 25 Jan 91 05:28:55 GMT References: <38406@cup.portal.com> <9947@orca.wv.tek.com> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 83 In article <9947@orca.wv.tek.com> bill@flutter.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) writes: >So, what does it say? --- WARNING --- This may make you very sad. I sure was. Nevertheless, I think it needs to be posted. Hit 'n' now if you would rather not hear... NASA's account of tapes made during the ill-fated Challenger mission ends with pilot Michael Smith saying "uh-oh" one minute, 13 seconds into the flight. Here is the rest: the suppressed transcript of the crew's last minutes, captured on Christa McAuliffe's personal cassette recorder and recovered from the shattered crew cabin. The sex of the speaker is indicated by M or F. T+1:15 (M): What happened? What happened? Oh God, no -- no! T+1:17 (F): Oh dear God. T+1:18 (M): Turn on your air pack! Turn on your air... T+1:20 (M): Can't breathe... choking... T+1:21 (M): Lift up your visor! T+1:22 (M/F): (Screams). It's hot. (sobs). I can't. Don't tell me... God! Do it now! T+1:24 (M): I told them... I told them... Dammit! Resnik don't... T+1:27 (M): Take it easy! Move (unintelligible)... T+1:28 (F): Don't let me die like this. Not now. Not here... T+1:31 (M): Your arm:... no... I (extended garble, static). T+1:36 (F): I'm... passing... out... T+1:37 (M): We're not dead yet. T+1:40 (M): If you ever wanted (unintelligible) me a miracle... (unintelligible)... (screams). T+1:41 (M): She's... she's... (garble)... Damn! T+1:50 (M): Can't breathe... T+1:51 (M/F): (Scream). Jesus Christ! No! T+1:54 (M): She's out. T+1:55 (M): Lucky... (unintelligible). T+1:56 (M): God. The water... we're dead! (Screams). T+2:00 (F): Goodbye (sobs)... I love you. I love you... T+2:03 (M): Loosen up... loosen up... T+2:07 (M): It'll be just like a ditch landing... T+2:09 (M): That's right. Think positive. T+2:11 (M): Ditch procedure... T+2:14 (M): No way! T+2:17 (M): Give me your hand... T+2:19 (M): You awake in there? I... I... T+2:29 (M): Our father... (unintelligible)... T+2:42 (M):... hallowed be Thy name... (unintelligible) T+2:57 (M): You... over there? T+2:58 (M): The Lord is my shepherd, I shall... not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures... though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... I will dwell in the house... T+3:15 to end (None): Static. Silence.