The Challenger Disaster

(2013)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 129 votes

Genres: Thriller, Drama, History, телевизионный фильм

Year: 2013

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Джеймс Хоуз

Cast: Уильям Хёрт, Брюс Гринвуд, Джоэнн Уэлли, Брайан Деннехи, Ив Бест, Кевин МакНелли, Генри Гудман, Лэнгли Кирквуд, Ник Борэйни, Meganne Young

Plot

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America.

When Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight on the morning of 28 January 1986, it represented one of the most shocking events in the history of American spaceflight. A Presidential Commission was immediately convened to explore what had gone wrong, but with the vast complexity of the space shuttle and so many vested interests involved in the investigation, discovering the truth presented an almost impossible challenge. A truly independent member of the investigation was Richard Feynman. One of the most accomplished scientists of his generation, he worked on the Manhattan Project building the first atom bomb and won the Nobel Prize for his breakthroughs in quantum physics. Feynman deployed exceptional integrity, charm and relentless scientific logic to investigate the secrets of the Shuttle disaster and in doing so, helped make the US Space Programme safer.