NOVA
Season 36 Episode 2 - Space Shuttle Disaster
At the end of a nearly flawless 15-day mission in early 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing the crew of seven men and women. In this documentary, NOVA probes the accident and the decisions stretching back four decades that made the tragedy almost inevitable. It offers a penetrating look at the history of the shuttle program and the political pressures that made the shuttle a highly complex engineering compromise, which fell short of its ambitious goal to make space travel routine, cheap, and safe.
Episodes in Season 36
Arctic Dinosaurs
55 min
Space Shuttle Disaster
55 min
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
55 min
Hunting The Hidden Dimension
55 min
Alien From Earth
55 min
The Bible's Buried Secrets
55 min
Ocean Animal Emergency
55 min
Is There Life On Mars?
55 min
The Big Energy Gamble
55 min
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
55 min
The Spy Factory
55 min
Rat Attack
55 min
Extreme Ice
55 min
Last Extinction
55 min
Doctors' Diaries Pt.1
55 min
Doctors' Diaries Pt.2
55 min
Musical Minds
55 min