COMING SOON, Space Shuttle Challenger documentary with unpublished Roger Boisjoly interview. — Transcript

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1. 0:02hi everyone well as you probably know at
2. 0:04this time of the year I usually put out
3. 0:06a tribute video to the um to the Apollo
4. 0:08one and the and the spa columia and
5. 0:11Challenger astronauts but uh
6. 0:13unfortunately I won't it appears I won't
7. 0:15be able to do so this year my computer
8. 0:17is currently being repaired and I'm out
9. 0:19of action now as a result of it in fact
10. 0:21I'm recording this video on my Samsung
11. 0:23Galaxy Tab here but I'd like to take
12. 0:25this opportunity to um to say some words
13. 0:27that I prepared um as some you already
14. 0:30know I had interviewed Roger boay prior
15. 0:32to his death last year boay was the
16. 0:34engineer at fireal Morton fireal the
17. 0:37company that that built the CH the the
18. 0:39space shut uh solid rocket boosters Bo
19. 0:43was the man who tried to prevent the
20. 0:44Challenger from launching in in cold
21. 0:46weather because he knew that it would be
22. 0:48catastrophic I interviewed him over the
23. 0:50phone about this a long time ago and uh
24. 0:53while his talk was mostly about the
25. 0:54Challenger he also discussed the the
26. 0:56Apollo 1 and space St Columbia disasters
27. 0:59too
28. 1:00I'm currently in the process of uh
29. 1:02putting that documentary together using
30. 1:03his audio I've I've lined his audio up
31. 1:06in sequence with with my narration and
32. 1:08I'm I'm currently in the process of
33. 1:10adding the appropriate visual aid I've
34. 1:12got I've got lots of stock footage and
35. 1:14papers and documents from from the
36. 1:16investigation as well as um as photos
37. 1:19that Bo had sent me prior to his death
38. 1:22um there are some scenes that will have
39. 1:24to be reenacted like the um like the
40. 1:26teleconference between NASA and um and
41. 1:28fireal prior to the launch they held
42. 1:30they had held a a telecon on the night
43. 1:33before the launch NASA and um and fire
44. 1:35call fire call was trying to Pro trying
45. 1:36to prevent uh the challenge of disaster
46. 1:39and NASA they were basically effectively
47. 1:42telling them to sit down and shut up and
48. 1:44um i' I'd also like to take like to like
49. 1:47to add that um the interview is um in
50. 1:50the in the documentary the interview is
51. 1:51virtually uncut obviously um obviously I
52. 1:54added out the occasional ER and um but
53. 1:56um and added some narration here and
54. 1:58there but but n theless you'll be
55. 2:00getting um Bo's talk from from start to
56. 2:03finish and uh so that that film should
57. 2:05be out later this year I'll be releasing
58. 2:07it on um DVD I don't have a release date
59. 2:10set just yet but um I'll keep you all
60. 2:12posted and um hopefully you'll enjoy it
61. 2:15well nice talking to you bye