“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.

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Here it is

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.