LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Challenger space shuttle disaster - Investigations

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

29 Jan 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:04:37

Description

Andrew Manderstam reports on the Challenger space shuttle disaster (28/01/86), which killed all on board. Includes official announcement of crew deaths by Jesse Moore, deputy director of NASA, and his rejection of suggestions that NASA had cut corners; interview with unidentified male eyewitness; workers and designer William Robertson at the shuttle’s contractor’s site; Congressman William Nelson; unidentified male former astronaut and shuttle consultant.

Contributors

Andrew Manderstam; William Nelson; Jesse Moore; William Robertson

Keywords

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

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