I finished watching the Challenger Shuttle documentary on Netflix (it was pretty interesting to learn more about the accident) and it got me thinking, are there any movies or documentaries on the Columbia Shuttle accident?

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Minimum_Box4491 t1_j281cpo wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:35 AM

“Seconds From Disaster” (a Nat Geo series). There’s an episode on Columbia.

Not sure where you can find it though - try on YouTube or somewhere else on the interwebs.

NoCellReception t1_j288p0c wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:15 AM

Here it is

robotslendahand t1_j28gfsa wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:55 AM

PBS's NOVA did an episode about it.

If you want something in-depth NASA's Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report pdf gets deep into the sequence of events. Redacted in some crew-related sections btw.

Triabolical_ t1_j29nmxo wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:32 PM

If you liked the documentaries, I recommend reading the full report of the investigation.

Ok_Damage7184 t1_j29ph8p wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:43 PM

Also read “Bringing Columbia Home” by Launch Director Mike Leinbach and Author Johnathan Ward. It’s the story of the days and weeks after with stories of the people behind the search in East Texas.

Billyconnor79 t1_j2aw8mb wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:19 PM

A really absorbing read. I learned lots of things I didn’t know about this entire period.

dubiago t1_j2bu8b8 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 2:23 AM

Yes. This. Got this for my dad for Christmas. Will probably give it a read, as well, at some point.

the6thReplicant t1_j28mmkf wrote on December 30, 2022 at 1:03 PM

The The Challenger Disaster was a great fictionalised TV series including (the then) newly declassified documents about the creation of the Space Shuttle and the Challenger disaster.

William Hurt, as Richard Feynman, is the main character.

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ParanoidAutist t1_j28b9x3 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:50 AM

You can get the actual mission stuff from youtube from lunarmouse i think? Just google the flight... "NASA STS-###"

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Syonoq t1_j2ce3cp wrote on December 31, 2022 at 5:06 AM

There’s a government report on the Columbia shuttle. In the last part of it is a rather lengthy ‘well, here’s what we could have done’ type plan and it’s really cool. It talks about how fast they could have ramped up a rescue mission and what it would have looked like.