[ReignOfError]

There are always going to be risks when you try to propel human bodies up into space at a gazillion miles per hour.

As other folks mentioned in the launch thread, I still get white knuckles when I hear "Roger, go with throttle up" 70-some seconds after launch. Those were Challenger commander Frank Scobee's last (reported) words.

[P-40]

I still get white knuckles when I hear "Roger, go with throttle up" 70-some seconds after launch.

Same here. I've often wondered if anything was recorded beyond that....but if there was, that was for the families of those involved to hear.

I do have the video of the Challenger on the launch pad just starting to power up...and you can see it is doomed.