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02.04.03 - 11:04 am (NASA: SSME thrust level at 100% for all 3 engines.) T+O...............MS 2 Aaall riiight. T+1...............PLT Here we go. (NASA: Vehicle motion.) T+7...............CDR........Houston, Challenger roll program. (NASA: Initiation of vehicle roll program.) T+11..............PLT Go you Mother. T+14..............MS LVLH. (NASA: Reminder for cockpit switch configuration change. Local vertical/local horizontal). T+15..............MS 2 (Expletive) hot. T+16..............CDR Ooohh-kaaay. T+19..............PLT Looks like we've got a lotta wind here today. T+20..............CDR Yeah. T+22..............CDR It's a little hard to see out my window here. T+28..............PLT There's ten thousand feet and Mach point five. (NASA: Altitude and velocity report.) T+30............ Garble. T+35..............CDR Point nine. (NASA: Velocity report, 0.9 Mach). T+40..............PLT There's Mach one. (NASA: Velocity report, 1.0 Mach). T+41..............CDR Going through nineteen thousand. (NASA: Altitude report, 19,000 ft.) T+43..............CDR OK we're throttling down. (NASA: Normal SSME thrust reduction during maximum dynamic pressure region. T+57..............CDR Throttling up. (NASA: Throttle up to 104% after maximum dynamic pressure. T+58..............PLT Throttle up. T+59..............CDR Roger. T+60..............PLT Feel that mother go. T+60............ Woooohoooo. T+1:02............PLT Thirty-five thousand going through one point five (NASA: Altitude and velocity report, 35,000 ft., 1.5 Mach). T+1:05............CDR Reading four eighty six on mine. (NASA: Routine airspeed indicator check.) T+1:07............PLT Yep, that's what I've got, too. T+1:10............CDR Roger, go at throttle up. (NASA: SSME at 104 percent. T+1:13............PLT Uhoh. T+1:13.......................LOSS OF ALL DATA. january 28th, 1986 "...We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
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