Challenger space shuttle disaster - Live commentary
- Title
- Challenger space shuttle disaster - Live commentary
- Genre
- Speech; Special
- TX Date
- 28 Jan 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:06:21
- Description
- Countdown commentary and final transmission of the Challenger space shuttle crew (poss. Dick Scobee) as the craft takes off, followed by NASA Shuttle Control’s report of an explosion. Flight controller heard is possibly Richard Covey; public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt reports the explosion.
- Contributors
- Stephen A. Nesbitt; Richard Covey?; Dick Scobee?
- Keywords
- Accidents; USA; Deaths; Space exploration; Space; Explosions; NASA; Astronauts; Space shuttles; Challenger; Cape Canaveral
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