Seconds from Disaster
S03E18
S03E1845 min· aired 1/31/2007

Space Shuttle Challenger

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Overview

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?