Movies and TvShows featuring "space-shuttle-columbia" theme.

In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America. The astronauts’ families and Nasa staff share personal stories of the launch, unfolding disaster and fallout.

A documentary about the last mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, exploring its role in space exploration and its legacy. The film covers the shuttle's history, its various missions, and its final journey to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

A documentary about the courage, bravery and triumph of the "Rocket Men" of the U.S. manned space program.

February 1, 2003. A nation wakes to images of the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating into a shower of hot metal in the skies over Texas. All seven on board are lost. With the future of human space exploration uncertain, the NASA family vows to find the cause of the accidents, fix it, and return safely to flight. Return To Flight follows intensely human stories of triumph and failure as experienced by those who have undertaken to make things right. The two-year journey from the Columbia accident to the launch of the space shuttle Discovery in the summer of 2005 unfolds through the extraordinary day-to-day struggles of NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts from whom failure is not an option.

This poignant film is a biography of the shuttle told using three decades of BBC programmes. The film asks if the shuttle will be remembered as an impressive chapter in human space exploration, or as a fatally flawed white elephant.

2003 - millions watch live as Columbia breaks up in the sky over Texas, killing all on board. NASA, loved ones and investigators share how an incredible journey ended in tragedy.