I saw a movie last night about the Challenger disaster titled "The Challenger Disaster." It didn't really deal with astronomy or science as much as it was an investigation into what went wrong. It was IMO a well done movie (granted there were some parts added for drama). I'm curious to know if any of you have seen this movie...
Feynman's book... citizen scientist I think has some good info re his time on the commission that investigated the incident
Aaahhhh THE event that changed the course of my life. ? Very influencial time of my youth. My 7th grade science teacher was a participant in that educator in space program. I think I missed that film - appears to be on Amazon Prime. Cued up for tonight!
NASA has a very dry, technical film version of the Roger’s Commission Report that goes into all the details, does not address the breakdown in communication in the agency of course, only the science of the disaster. I used to show to my high school students and we’d talk about the science but also researched the important human factor. High school students have an amazing ability to relate to not being listened to by superiors (not that they’re always right).
Is it on Netflix?
I have not seen the movie but I am curious if they highlighted the O-ring problem and the decision making chain of command. Apparently one scientist-engineer was strongly against the launch and actually predicted what was going to happen.
Richard Feynman was the hero of the story, imo. But then I am a Feynman fanboy