STS-51-L was the twenty-fifth flight of the American Space Shuttle program, using Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted off from the Launch Complex 39-B on 28 January 1986 from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Read more
Challenger is a film based on Richard Feynman's investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. David Strathairn will play Dr. Feynman. The film will be directed by Philip Kaufman. It was slated to premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with a wide release scheduled for 2008, but was not on the final announced list of either in-competition or out-of-competition films for le Festival de Cannes. The cast of actors is currently unknown, other than Strathairn.