Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals will fail and kill everyone on board. The Company, Marshall Space Flight and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.
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“The most tragic disaster in American space history... and they saw it coming.”

The Challenger Disaster TRAILER 2019
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