Space Shuttle Challenger Seconds from Disaster : Season 3 Episode 18
TV-PG National Geographic 1h 00m
Aired: January 1st, 2007 @ 8:30 PM EST on National Geographic
On a cold winter day in 1986, space shuttle Challenger takes off from Cape Canaveral to start Mission 51-L. 73 seconds later, Challenger's boosters explode and send it into the ocean in pieces. What happened? Was a fault to blame? Or was there ice on the shuttle?
