ylomnstr

I'm suprised nobody talked about this. It aired on Monday on the National Geographic channel. I recorded it, and only watched about a half hour of it or so, but so far it's really interesting. It's a 2 hour show. Here's the details from the National Geographic site:

Monday, January 23, 2006, at 9P

Challenger: The Untold Story

The January 28, 1986, launch of the space shuttle Challenger was expected to be a historic first-schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was to be the first private ordinary U.S. citizen flown into space. Instead, the Challenger flight marked one of the greatesttragedies in American space exploration when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members on board. With the shuttle’s explosion came serious questions such as could the tragedy have been averted?

Also airs:
Tuesday, January 24, 12A
Saturday, January 28, 8:00P

Alvis

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be recording this tonight. I was a big fan of the space program in '86, as a junior in high school, before I found out it was all politics.