Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/STS-51-L footage of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

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Original – Launch of Challenger (STS-51-L) and breakup. Video starts at T-10 seconds.

Reason: A film reel documenting the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the destruction of the vehicle less than two minutes into the intended flight. This would be the only time in the history of the Space Shuttle Program that a shuttle craft would be lost en route to space, and served a similar role for NASA's Space Shuttle Program that the loss of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge for civil engineering in that both have become widely studied examples engineering failures.
Articles in which this image appears: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 03:04, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My terrible internet connection won't play this unless I give it 12 hours to download, but is this the best resolution video available? (although, if you do find a better resolution, I definitely won't be able to watch it; nice one, Belle, ask for something that you can't use). Belle (talk) 09:33, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- That's the highest resolution in the source (side note: we should definitely note that this is an edited version of source video; a lot of the commemorative information was removed). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:38, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:12, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]