Space Shuttle Challenger

S03E18·9.3·January 31, 2007·45m·Seven Network

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?

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#6In Season 3of 19 rated episodes

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2007First airedJanuary 31, 2007

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