Challenger space shuttle disaster - Reaction and analysis

Title

Challenger space shuttle disaster - Reaction and analysis

Genre

Interview

TX Date

29 Jan 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:09:15

Description

Assessment of the Challenger space shuttle explosion. Space expert Dr David Whitehouse on what went so disastrously wrong; Congressman Bill Nelson on the space programme now being put on temporary hold. Whitehouse then discusses this, the need for manned operations, and the effect of the disaster on the European Space Agency. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Douglas Cameron).

Contributors

Douglas Cameron?; David Whitehouse; Bill Nelson; William Nelson

Keywords

Accidents; USA; Deaths; Space exploration; Explosions; NASA; Astronauts; ESA; Space shuttles; Satellites; Challenger; Cape Canaveral

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