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Tragedy (3/4)


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Subjects: Design, Engineering, History, Space, Technology

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2009
Available in French: No

With triumph and achievement comes increasing risk, sometimes leading to out-right disaster. The white knuckle suspense thriller of Apollo 13’s famous neardisaster is only a prelude to darker moments ahead. Crista McAuliffe’s ride on the Shuttle Challenger becomes the greatest tragedy to date at NASA. All missions are halted; NASA’s future is in question. But the shuttle returns for fifteen years of great missions before disaster returns with the shocking loss of Columbia – the beginning of the end for for the shuttle.

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