This is the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder (also known as the black box) from the Space Shuttle Challenger which broke apart 73 seconds after lift off in Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 28, 1986. It shows what the shuttle crew said to mission control and to each other.

A great deal of effort was made to match the conversation to the exact second it happened both before lift off and after. It is a written transcript and not an audio recording.

Please take a moment to remember the astronauts lost: Francis Richard Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Jarvis.

The transcript was taken from the book The Black Box, by Malcolm MacPherson.



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