I dunno, the amateur videos of it breaking up were haunting. Not as haunting as that one early picture of a crewman's scorched helmet, lying by itself in a forest. NASA squashed subsequent images of the crew and their clothing, out of respect for the dead and their families, but that one image, the only one that got out, really is haunting.<br /><br />You're right, though, that the Challenger video is more powerful. All seems well, especially with the live-recorded audio announcing the particulars of the ascent. I've got a DVD of the Rogers Commission results and all of the videos of the event. It's.... You don't breathe much while watching it. You just feel this huge pit open up in the bottom of your stomach. It's so much faster than the Columbia one. With Columbia, it was this slow realization that things were not right. With Challenger, you knew instantly that things were bad because you could *see* it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>