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The Challenger (US title: The Challenger Disaster) is a 2013 TV movie starring William Hurt about Richard Feynman's investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The film was co-produced by the BBC, the Science Channel, and Open University, and it premiered on 12 May 2013 on BBC2.
Jan 19, 2016 · Just 73 seconds into its 10th mission, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Richard Feynman investigates the cause of the tragedy that stunned America. ...more.
- 2 min
- 35.1K
- Discovery Channel Southeast Asia
Nov 16, 2013 · This gripping film focuses on the Rogers Commission investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, through the eyes of the late theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.
- (4.6K)
- Drama, History
- James Hawes
- 2013-11-16
Oscar-winning star William Hurt heads a stellar cast in this gripping drama about the brilliant US physicist Richard Feynman, who helped uncover the secrets behind the Challenger disaster of 1986.
Physicist Richard Feynman (William Hurt) investigates the cause of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.
- (13)
- James Hawes
- TV-14
- William Hurt
After the space shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in a fiery, catastrophic explosion on January 28, 1986, NASA appointed members of the Rogers Commission to investigate the cause of the disaster. When he was asked to be a part of this commission, Feynman rather reluctantly accepted.
Jun 9, 2021 · Featuring footage saved from the 1984 mission when Resnik’s hair got caught in the camera, the movie “was so dramatic that I almost began to cry,” Feynman remembered. As for Challenger, “I could see that the accident was a terrible blow.
