Cast & crew User reviews Trivia IMDbProAll topicsChallenger TV Movie 1990 Not Rated 2h 40m IMDb RATING 5.8/10 421 YOUR RATING RateDrama New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe joins six other astronauts on the tragic 1986 space-shuttle flight....
As with the Apollo 1 fire, lack of escape provisions eventually doomed those crewmembers still alive after the explosion. Ejection seats that could have been used had been removed from all Space Shuttles after the first four qualification flights when the number of crew members was increased ...
Scocca, Tom. “Thirty Years Ago, the Challenger Crew Plunged Alive and Aware to Their Deaths.” Gawker, https://www.gawker.com/thirty-years-ago-the-challenger-crew-plunged-alive-and-1755727930.
Bush and astronaut and Senator John Glenn met with NASA's space shuttle launch team, who hours earlier had lost Challenger and its seven member crew to a then-still-unknown cause just 73 seconds into flight. Speaking to the controllers from inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space ...
On the roof of the launch control tower, the families of the crew desperately searched the twin trails of smoke that twisted skyward for signs of the crew cabin. They were rushed back inside, purses and cameras left behind. Everyone was silent. The last thing Lorna remembers about...