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Challenger: The Final Flight

So we're all thinking, "They must know what happened,or have a pretty darn good idea."...

So we're all thinking, "They must know what happened,
or have a pretty darn good idea." [Jay Greene] GC, all operators,
contingency procedures in effect. Stay off the telephones.
Make sure you maintain all your data. Start pulling it together. The space program experienced
a national tragedy with the explosion
of the space shuttle Challenger approximately a minute and a half after launch from here
at the Kennedy Space Center

Full Transcript

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So we're all thinking,
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"They must know what happened, or have a pretty darn good idea."
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[Jay Greene] GC, all operators, contingency procedures in effect.
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Stay off the telephones. Make sure you maintain all your data.
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Start pulling it together.
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The space program experienced a national tragedy
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with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger
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approximately a minute and a half
00:00:27.485 --> 00:00:29.904
after launch from here at the Kennedy Space Center.
Duration
30 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:48
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, history
Production
Bad Robot,Sutter Road Picture Company,Zipper Bros Films

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Movie Summary

Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.
S01 • E02 She and Steve both graduated college, and they got married. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:05
She and Steve both graduated college, and they got married.
S01 • E04 It was what, uh, engineers call a catastrophic failure. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:04
It was what, uh, engineers call a catastrophic failure.
S01 • E02 She had the belief that she could do extraordinary things, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:07
She had the belief that she could do extraordinary things,
S01 • E04 Several things had to go wrong at once, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:06
Several things had to go wrong at once,
S01 • E02 When Christa saw the Apollo go up, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:11
When Christa saw the Apollo go up,
S01 • E01 The real question that remains to be answered of course is - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:10
The real question that remains to be answered of course is
S01 • E04 The shuttle had a telemetry stream that was really unbelievable. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:04
The shuttle had a telemetry stream that was really unbelieva...
S01 • E04 I mean, they had enormous amounts of data - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:06
I mean, they had enormous amounts of data
S01 • E04 So we were waiting for NASA to tell because they must know - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:07
So we were waiting for NASA to tell because they must know
S01 • E01 I'm only raising it as a question. We do not know the answer to that yet. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:04
I'm only raising it as a question. We do not know the a...
S01 • E02 [Barbara] NASA had three questions that they would ask us. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:04
[Barbara] NASA had three questions that they would ask us.
S01 • E01 That will take a long and meticulous investigation - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:05
That will take a long and meticulous investigation
S01 • E04 [operator] J.C., all operators, contingency procedures in effect. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:09
[operator] J.C., all operators, contingency procedures in ef...
S01 • E02 They gave us two of the questions, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:05
They gave us two of the questions,
S01 • E01 [man] As I watched the different newscasts, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:08
[man] As I watched the different newscasts,
S01 • E02 Describe your philosophy of living. - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:04
Describe your philosophy of living.
S01 • E04 And then, for the next four or five hours, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:13
And then, for the next four or five hours,
S01 • E02 "My philosophy of living." - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:17
"My philosophy of living."
S01 • E01 There were people in NASA who said a catastrophe would take place, - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:10
There were people in NASA who said a catastrophe would take ...
S01 • E01 How could they live with themselves - Challenger: The Final Flight 00:07
How could they live with themselves