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Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) is a Netflix documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Across four episodes it pieces together what doomed the space shuttle Challenger in the winter of 1986.
On the morning of January 28, the orbiter broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff — live, with classrooms full of children watching. One of the seven who died was Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher picked from thousands of applicants to give a lesson from orbit. Engineers, NASA officials and the crew's families walk through the run of decisions that led there.
The most damning thread follows the Morton Thiokol engineers who warned, the night before launch, that the rubber O-rings would fail in the cold — and were overruled. There's no melodrama here, just a measured account of how deadlines and management pressure drowned out the people who knew better. Stream every episode of Challenger online on iFILM.
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