The National Geographic Channel is releasing a special “Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes,” airing Monday at 9pm, which weaves together NASA audio and video recordings and archival interviews with the flight crew. When Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight, the initial shock - and unsettling knowledge that it could have been her - gave way to survival mode. On launch day, Morgan wanted nothing more than to be with the crew she’d spent the last six months training with. The two each took a yearlong leave of absence from teaching to move to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for astronaut training and to design the lesson plans that McAuliffe would teach from space.
The show details how Morgan and McAuliffe were selected from more than 10,000 applicants for the Teacher in Space program. Now, three decades after the disaster, footage of McAuliffe and Morgan will be shown as part of the National Geographic Channel special “Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes” (airing Monday at 9 p.m.), which weaves together NASA audio and video recordings and archival interviews with the flight crew. “We knew enough to know it sure wasn’t survivable,” she says. The solid rocket boosters had come off early.”Īs rescuers desperately searched for wreckage from the explosion, Morgan was certain that her friends were gone. “The one contrail that’s on forever as it’s going into space was not one. earlier as part of our training and this one just did not look right,” Morgan, 64, tells The Post. 28, 1986, after saying goodbye to the crew, she watched the launch from a tower about 3 miles away - and knew almost immediately that something was wrong. Morgan, then a 34-year-old elementary school teacher from Idaho, trained with McAuliffe and the rest of the Challenger astronauts as the backup “Teacher in Space.” On Jan.
Barbara Morgan, left, with Christa McAuliffe NASA The film shines fresh perspective on the Princess' emotional journey from childhood to her relationship with HRH Prince of Wales and her pervasive public life under the microscope.Thursday marks 30 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which claimed the lives of all seven crew members - the most famous being social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe, who was to be the first American civilian in space.īut if things had gone a little differently, that teacher would have been Barbara Morgan. Executive produced by acclaimed Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Tom Jennings of 1895 Films (Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes MLK: The Assassination Tapes), DIANA: IN HER OWN WORDS weaves archival footage and photography with these rarely heard recordings and is the latest presentation under the National Geographic Documentary Films banner. Entirely in her voice, with no interviews, most of these unique recordings have never been broadcast before. Now, National Geographic Documentary Films reveals Diana's thoughts and feelings at a very specific point in her life, presenting one side of a very complicated story?her side. The public was unaware that Diana, Princess of Wales', marriage to HRH Prince of Wales was at a crisis point. Morton was writing a book about Diana's life to reveal what life was really like for the most photographed woman in the world.
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In 1991, inside London's Kensington Palace, Diana, Princess of Wales, participated in a series of secret interviews, recorded with her permission by a close friend on behalf of journalist Andrew Morton.
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