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The Challenger Disaster
Also known as
The Challenger
Based on
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Truth, Lies and O-Rings
Written by
Kate Gartside
Directed by
James Hawes
Starring
Joanne Whalley
William Hurt
Bruce Greenwood
Kevin McNally
Eve Best
Brian Dennehy
Theme music composer
Christopher Letcher
Production
Cinematography
Lukas Strebel
Editor
Peter Christelis
Running time
89 minutes
Production companies
BBC Films
Erstweit Medien
Moonlighting Films
Pictureshow Productions
Science Channel
Open University
Original release
Release
12 May 2013 (2013-05-12)
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)
The Challenger (US title: The Challenger Disaster) is a 2013 TV movie starring William Hurt about Richard Feynman's investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.[1] The film was co-produced by the BBC, the Science Channel, and Open University,[2] and it premiered on 12 May 2013 on BBC2.
It is based on two books What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)[3] and Truth, Lies and O-Rings.[4][2]
The film follows Feynman (William Hurt) as he attempts to expose the truth in the disaster.
It aired in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel on 16 November 2013.
^Bricken, Rob (February 2013). "Here's William Hurt as the legendary physicist Richard Feynman!". io9. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
^ abEnd credits
^Feynman, Richard; Feynman, Gweneth; Leighton, Ralph (1988). What Do You Care What Other People Think?. W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-02659-0.
^McDonald, Allan J; Hansen, James R (30 March 2012). Truth, Lies and O-Rings. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0813041933.
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