Space Shuttle: Triumph and Tragedy

1 Series ∙ 2 Episodes ∙ Engineering

The inside story of NASA's iconic, reusable spacecraft, featuring the thoughts of some of the men and women who designed, built and flew them.

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S1 E1

NASA engineers reveal how they pushed technology's limits when they created the Shuttle.

S1 E2

Following the Challenger disaster, the Shuttle was saved by the fall of the Soviet Union.