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Seconds from Disaster•Season 3•Episode 18

Space Shuttle Challenger

9.3/10 · 3 votesJan 31, 200745 min

Ranked #1 of 19 in Season 3•+1.5 vs season avg

On a cold winter day in 1986, space shuttle Challenger takes off from Cape Canaveral to start Mission 51-L. 73 seconds later, Challenger's boosters explode and send it into the ocean in pieces. What happened? Was a fault to blame? Or was there ice on

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Seasons7

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Season 3 Episodes19

Skywalk Collapse

Amsterdam Air Crash

Russia's Nuclear Sub Nightmare (Sinking of the Kursk)

King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)

US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)

Florida Swamp Air Crash (Everglades Plane Crash)

Titanic

Aircraft Carrier Explosion

Queens Air Crash

Munich Olympic Massacre

Superstore Collapse

Plane Crash in the Potomac

Asian Tsunami

Comet Air Crash

Flight Engine Down

Oil Fire in Texas

Tornado Outbreak

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Peter Guinness

Peter Guinness

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Ashton Smith

Narrator (US)

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Episode Summary

"Space Shuttle Challenger" is episode 18 of Seconds from Disaster season 3. It scored 9.3/10 from 3 votes, ranking #1 of 19 episodes this season (season average 7.8). It aired on January 31, 2007.

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