Challenger doc reminds viewers of the human cost of space travel

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Every generation has its space flight tragedy. Netflix documentary looks back to a 1986 disaster

That’s one for every young generation. Challenger was Gen X’s calamity. I was in a grade 11 geography class when my teacher told us the news. Someone thought he was kidding. By nightfall, the image of the twin solid rocket boosters arcing away from the disintegrating ship was burned into all our memories.

And without getting too dramatic, it also portrays the fear that many in the program had, that NASA was taking unnecessary risks with the shuttle and its propulsion system. Rocket engineer R.V. Ebeling had written a memo whose executive summary began: “Help!” and which called the issue of faulty O-rings “a red flag.”

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