Disasters in Space

Following the relentless work of NASA engineers while they attempt to avoid other problems on a Space Shuttle whose internal pressure ends up increasing far beyond the warning levels.

A procedure to test the exploration of the Mars Exploration Rover ends up going horribly wrong. Serious injury or life loss threaten the technicians who are working on the project.

Catastrophe beckons when gears controlling a Single Point of Failure Space Shuttle landing system are installed backwards by mistake. The landing system is therefore seriously compromised.

A spacecraft crashes to the ground and rushes in free fall from Earth's orbit because its parachute has failed to deploy. A millionaire mission could potentially fix the disaster.

A harrowing space mistake leaves the solid rocket boosters hanging by a thread and places the unsuspecting public in the cross hairs of more than a ton of the most explosive rocket fuel on the planet.

The failure of the Shuttle Columbia is one of the worst disasters in the history of space travel. The spacecraft disintegrated in the Texas skies during the re-entry phase of the Earth's atmosphere.