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The media froze our grief in newspapers and TV clips, Rodgers told TODAY. It was so unbearable.
Throughout the years, multiple books, documentaries and TV specials have been devoted to the Challenger disaster, including a recent Netflix docuseries, Challenger: The Final Flight, which examined the mechanical failures and behind-the-scenes decisions that led to the destruction. Rodgers called the series the most thorough retelling of what happened.
She s always known her husband had concerns about the mission. We talked about those risks, and he was willing to take those risks, she said.
Still, she found the series eye-opening. I learned a great deal that I didn t know, she said, adding that, following the show s success, one of the filmmakers called her to say hers was the most searched name on Google that day.