Seconds from Disaster
Space Shuttle Challenger
Season 3 Episode 18 of 19
The disastrous 1986 Nasa mission to send teacher Christa McAuliffe into space on board the Challenger space shuttle in an attempt to put the first civilian into orbit around Earth. The flight lasted only 73 seconds before the vessel disintegrated killing all seven people on board
Seconds from Disaster airs on National Geographic Channel +1 at 1:00 AM, Thursday 31 July.
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