NOVA
Season 36 Episode 2 - Space Shuttle Disaster
7.0 ?
1974
Documentary
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
1
Arctic Dinosaurs
55 min
2
Space Shuttle Disaster
55 min
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3
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
55 min
4
Hunting The Hidden Dimension
55 min
5
Alien From Earth
55 min
6
The Bible's Buried Secrets
55 min
7
Ocean Animal Emergency
55 min
8
Is There Life On Mars?
55 min
9
The Big Energy Gamble
55 min
10
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
55 min
11
The Spy Factory
55 min
12
Rat Attack
55 min
13
Extreme Ice
55 min
14
Last Extinction
55 min
15
Doctors' Diaries Pt.1
55 min
16
Doctors' Diaries Pt.2
55 min
17
Musical Minds
55 min
