Video documentary on the Challenger shuttle and its plutonium

Karl Grossman's (journalism professor and Beyond Nuclear board member) investigation into how the next mission of the ill-fated Challenger shuttle involved lofting a plutonium-fueled space probe, is featured in a documentary broadcast on the Dutch Public Broadcasting System tonight. The program is underpinned by then President Ronald Reagan's speech following the disaster. Others in the documentary include Jello Biafra, the musician, spoken word artist and environmental activist, and Reagan's son Ron. Grossman criticize the U.S. media in the documentary for being a booster rather than a watchdog of the space program -- then and now. And he relates how he learned of the Challenger plutonium shot and pursued it.