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On the 1st February 2003 Space
Shuttle Columbia punches through the earth's upper atmosphere.
On board seven astronauts... unaware of the events that are about
to unfold. Hot gases are filling the right wing cavity and melting
the aluminum structure inside. At 200,000 feet and traveling
more than 14,000 miles per hour the shuttle breaks up killing
all on board. In a fast-response documentary produced just five
weeks after the disaster and months before NASA's official report
the film asks... was it an accident just waiting to happen?
Space Shuttle
Human Time Bomb explores over 30 years of Shuttle development.
Were design compromises forced by the military creating an inherently
dangerous vehicle? With contributions from
Shuttle engineers and scientists... the show accurately concludes
what went wrong on that fateful day. |
