Season
- Season 0 1999-07-13
- Season 1 1974-03-03
- Season 2 1974-11-03
- Season 3 1976-01-04
- Season 4 1977-01-05
- Season 5 1978-01-04
- Season 6 1979-01-04
- Season 7 1980-01-15
- Season 8 1981-01-06
- Season 9 1982-01-10
- Season 10 1983-01-18
- Season 11 1984-01-17
- Season 12 1985-01-15
- Season 13 1986-01-21
- Season 14 1987-01-20
- Season 15 1988-01-19
- Season 16 1989-01-17
- Season 17 1990-01-09
- Season 18 1991-01-08
- Season 19 1992-01-14
- Season 20 1993-01-05
- Season 21 1994-01-18
- Season 22 1995-01-08
- Season 23 1995-10-10
- Season 24 1996-10-01
- Season 25 1997-10-07
- Season 26 1998-10-06
- Season 27 1999-10-05
- Season 28 2000-10-24
- Season 29 2001-10-02
- Season 30 2002-09-03
- Season 31 2003-09-30
- Season 32 2004-09-28
- Season 33 2005-09-20
- Season 34 2006-09-05
- Season 35 2007-10-09
- Season 36 2008-10-07
- Season 37 2009-10-06
- Season 38 2010-10-19
- Season 39 2011-09-07
- Season 40 2012-10-10
- Season 41 2013-09-11
- Season 42 2014-09-10
- Season 43 2015-09-16
- Season 44 2016-09-07
- Season 45 2018-01-10
- Season 46 2019-01-02
- Season 47 2020-02-05
- Season 48 2021-01-14
- Season 49 2022-02-02
- Season 50 2023-02-01
- Season 51 2024-01-31
- Season 52 2025-01-22
- Season 53 2026-01-21
Season 53 Episode
- Season 36 Arctic Dinosaurs
- Season 36 Space Shuttle Disaster
- Season 36 Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
- Season 36 Hunting The Hidden Dimension
- Season 36 Alien From Earth
- Season 36 The Bible's Buried Secrets
- Season 36 Ocean Animal Emergency
- Season 36 Is There Life On Mars?
- Season 36 The Big Energy Gamble
- Season 36 The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
- Season 36 The Spy Factory
- Season 36 Rat Attack
- Season 36 Extreme Ice
- Season 36 Last Extinction
- Season 36 Doctors' Diaries Pt.1
- Season 36 Doctors' Diaries Pt.2
- Season 36 Musical Minds
NOVA - Season 36 Episode 2 Space Shuttle Disaster
7.00 55 minutes At the end of a nearly flawless 15-day mission in early 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing the crew of seven men and women. In this documentary, NOVA probes the accident and the decisions stretching back four decades that made the tragedy almost inevitable. It offers a penetrating look at the history of the shuttle program and the political pressures that made the shuttle a highly complex engineering compromise, which fell short of its ambitious goal to make space travel routine, cheap, and safe.
