Challenger Disaster | Revisiting the Tragedy | 5
American Scandal
Wondery
4.6 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Like most people who were alive in 1986, filmmaker Steven Leckart remembers the Challenger disaster. He was a kid in elementary school at the time. But as an adult, Leckart set out to explore the aftermath of what happened through interviews with astronauts’ family members, engineers and NASA officials. Today, Leckart joins Lindsay to talk about the 2020 Netflix series, Challenger: The Final Flight, which he co-directed and produced.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Lindsay Graham, host of American Scandal. |
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| 0:32.0 | Thank you. and more. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wondery, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American Scandal. |
| 0:36.2 | Music Lindsey Graham, and this is American Scandal. If you attended a K-12 school in America in January of 1986, there's a good chance you |
| 1:01.2 | watched the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on TV. |
| 1:06.0 | All around the country, televisions were wheeled into classrooms to broadcast a historic milestone |
| 1:10.7 | the first American civilian traveling into space, schoolteacher. country, televisions were wheeled into classrooms to broadcast a historic milestone, |
| 1:15.9 | the first American civilian traveling into space, schoolteacher Krista McColliffe. |
| 1:20.9 | You might have watched as McColliffe and her six fellow astronauts waved and smiled confidently at the cameras on their way to the launch pad. |
| 1:23.4 | And maybe you felt a sense of awe and wonder as the rockets roared to life and the shuttle took off, |
| 1:29.0 | soaring into the skies for just over a minute until something went horribly wrong. |
| 1:34.1 | Filmmaker Stephen Leckhardt remembers that day well and set out to explore the aftermath of the Challenger disaster. |
| 1:39.7 | He co-directed, co-created, and produced the 2020 Netflix series Challenger, The Final Flight. |
| 1:46.3 | Our conversation is next. |
| 1:54.6 | In the past decade, Boeing has been involved in a series of scandals and deadly crashes that have dented its once sterling reputation. |
| 2:02.1 | At the center of it all, the 737 Max. |
| 2:04.9 | The latest season of Business Wars explores how Boeing allowed things to turn deadly |
| 2:09.0 | and what, if anything, can save the company's reputation. |
| 2:12.0 | Make sure to listen to Business Wars, wherever you get your podcast. |
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