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Engineering Disasters 3

When design flaws fell projects, the cost is often exacted in lives. Why did the Tower of Pisa begin to lean by as much as 17 feet; what caused the first nuclear accident in 1961; what killed three Soyuz 11 cosmonauts aboard the world's first orbiting space station; how did a winter storm destroy the Air Force's Texas Tower Radar Station; and what errors led to NASA's loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander?

English
  • Originally Aired April 16, 2001
  • Runtime 44 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code A158
  • Network H2
  • Created August 28, 2020 by
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  • Modified July 30, 2024 by
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Name Type Role
Lee Schneider Writer