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The Challenger Disaster

Year:
Duration:
90 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
James Hawes
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2013-11-16
Cast
Actor
Character
Joanne Whalley
Gweneth Feynman
William Hurt
Richard Feynman
Bruce Greenwood
General Kutyna
Brian Dennehy
Rogers
Kevin McNally
Mulloy
Eve Best
Sally Ride
Langley Kirkwood
Avionics Engineer
Meganne Young
Michelle Feynman (as Megan Young)
Sean Cameron Michael
Judson Lovingood
Robert Hobbs
Allan J Macdonald
Henry Goodman
Dr. Weiss
Nick Boraine
SRB Engineer
Stevel Marc
Taxi Driver
Nicholas Pauling
Bill Graham
Liesl Ahlers
Hotel Receptionist
Nadia Kretschmer
Nurse
Graham Hopkins
Reporter
Adam Neill
Blade Engineer
Clayton Boyd
Reporter 4
Jose Domingos
Dr. Alton Keel
Stephen Jennings
Neil Armstrong
David Sherwood
George Hardy
Rafiq Jajbhay
Shopkeeper
Abdi Hussein
NASA Security
Megan Young
Michelle Feynman
Dana Prophet
Reporter #2
Peter Terry
Maitre d'
Millard Arnold
Speaker
Andrew Stock
Ronald Reagen
Chad Luckhoff
Reporter 5 (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan
Himself - U.S. President (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Trivia
William Hurt and Brian Dennehy share the screen again 30 years later after their partnership in Gorky Park (1983).
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The reason Challenger's solid rocket booster didn't immediately begin extruding the flame which, at 73 seconds caused it to burn through its attachment and strike the fuel tank, was because aluminium oxide (a relatively recently added fuel-efficiency measure) present in the SRB created a 'slag' which fortuitously plugged the hole in the now burned-through O-Ring. It was only because Challenger, at 58 seconds, was struck by the strongest wind gust in the history of any launch that the 'plug' was dislodged - causing the now infamous blowtorch-like flame to appear from the SRB which preceded the shuttle's destruction. Challenger required little over a minute after the moment of its break-up to reach the point where the SRB's fuel would have been exhausted and they could have been safely detached from the shuttle - thus allowing the Challenger, and its crew, to safely reach space.
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Goofs
After Feynman visits the Marshall factory, he records notes on an electronic typewriter. One note reads (electronically) "Cost versus reliability" which we then see printed as "Cost VS reliability". The typewriter would not abbreviate "versus", but would print verbatim off the screen.
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Emergency Exit signs at Marshall Flight Center in Alabama are green. Green was not adopted as the international color for exit signage until the turn of the 21st century. In 1986, exit signs in the United States were almost exclusively red while green exit signs were exclusive to the United Kingdom.
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When Feynman visits the Shuttle factory, the flight deck interior is clearly that of a Boeing 747-200. You can see the flight engineer's panel and the four throttles on the centre console, also the windscreen layout gives it away.
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Quotes
Rogers: The other commissioners are just being respectful.
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Photos from cast
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