Challenger: The Final Flight is a limited four-part space docuseries, recently published on the Netflix streaming platform in September 2020. Created by Steven Leckart and Glen Zipper, the show focuses on the fatal crash of NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Despite the dramatic turn of events, I thought it was important to present this brand new space documentary in this article. First of all to commemorate the 7 astronauts who lost their lives in the name of space exploration. And secondly, to publicize the history of the space program, each mission, whether successful or not, has contributed to making space “accessible” to humanity.
The Challenger tragedy has deeply affected the U.S. space program and NASA, hopefully improving its internal processes, communications, and security controls. And as we see more and more astronauts being launched into space from U.S. soil via SpaceX these days, it is important to look back on events such as the Challenger tragedy to ensure that this does not happen again.
Bonjour! Do you know if some of those space documentaries are available in the French language? Greetings from Paris!
Hi Marie. It depends on where you are watching those documentaries. Netflix and Amazon Prime are super good at offering many languages options. Comes to the worst, subtitles are almost always available. Happy watching 🙂
I gave the Cosmos series a go this week and I’ve got to say i’m hooked! Is there a third season planned?
Hi Eric! Super glad you enjoyed the show. And yeah! According to this article, there is a new season coming out next year!
The Planets with Brian Cox was absolutely beautiful. I’ve watched the series 5-6 times already! I’m blown away that they needed to have another person host an ‘American Version’. I can’t wait for Cosmos S3 due next month.
Watch “How far is it episodes by Butler in YouTube”, I have never seen such a detailed space clips(all original pics taken by Hubble , Chandra X and Spitzer,
Details of galaxies, local clusters, nebula actual stars revolving around black holes etc.
Most documentaries are just illustrations with a script and Imaginations.
The omission of “The Universe” is pretty striking. Not saying that you should have included it. But why did you leave it off your list?
Hello Mike, I have only listed documentaries that I have seen. I’m updating the list as I go along 🙂 I’m currently watching “Alien Worlds” on Netflix and it’s excellent. I will be trying “The Universe” soon, thank you for the suggestion. All the best.
How the universe works did not make it to your list
You pretty much gave the list I have already completed watching. I want MORE! :'(
Best narrators: John Hurt, Sir David Attenborough(mainly wildlife though), Professor Brian Cox(his work in ‘The Planets’ by BBC is phenomenal), I also loved Sophie Okonedo’s narration in Netflix’s ‘Alien World’.
If anyone of you know more documentary titles narrated by the above, then please let me know. Thank you.