Challenger: Final Flight on Netflix...
A lot of this forum remembers watching it live, probably in school when they were younger. It was out 9-11 moment before 9-11 happened.
It's one of those things you remember so vividly, that you really didn't want to see the footage again. Time doesn't heal all wounds and I wasn't sure I wanted to watch a 4 part documentary but I was able and it was pretty comprehensive.
Happened at a time when "truthers" didn't exist so there weren't any "Reagan had to destroy proof of alien contact" nonsense stories, it was simply a national tragedy. I'm sure somewhere there were small groups of misguided retards who cheered the event for some kind of social / political reasons but the media didn't give them any face time.
Investigative journalists did go after the cover up story, but in this case one actually existed and even though NASA exercised gross negligence in the form of hubris, it was simply a matter of getting the truth out regarding a known engineering defect that took second consideration to launches on schedule the the PR motivation of "put a school teacher into space."
There are of course many hard to watch moments, guys who tried to do the right thing but were overruled by committee and the realization that it was a completely preventable tragedy. But if you have any interest in the Challenger event or the space shuttle program it is definitely worth the time.
Learned some things that I didn't know and more importantly got to see the people side of things.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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