William Hurt has been cast as physicist Richard Feynman for an upcoming BBC/Science Channel drama about the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster. Ah, science dramas! Our ...

William Hurt stars as Richard Feynman in the BBC2 drama The Challenger. The BBC and the Open University have teamed up to produce two television programmes about Richard Feynman – the ...

He'll play scientist Richard Feynman in the factual telepic about the fight for truth in the space shuttle Challenger investigation. By Lesley Goldberg "She was a star player. She was one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS TO PHYSICIST, NOT PHYSICIAN - This image released by Science Channel shows William Hurt in a scene from the film "The ...

A shared Discovery/Science Channel telecast, “The Challenger Disaster” approaches the 27-year-old tragedy like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle, with William Hurt cast as the eccentric physicist who put the ...

At a hearing of the presidential commission investigating the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman conducted an experiment of sorts in the media-packed room. The Caltech physicist ...

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986 it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight The deaths of seven astronauts including the first teacher in space Christa ...

The Challenger Disaster: Feature film. 9 p.m. Saturday on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. We don't automatically think of science as the stuff of riveting filmmaking, but from "The ...