I have been trying to track down a film i watched on tv about 10 years ago the film was almost exactly the same as the astronaut farmer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469263/).

The difference was that the film i watched had a young teenager who was fascinated with space shuttles and decided he would build one when all seems to be too costly his father surprises him with a old space shuttle bought from a scrap yard and as the father and son build the shuttle NASA shut down there attempts as a national defence.

Shortly after a shuttle nasa had in orbit runs into some problems and will not have another shuttle ready for over a year and decide that they will help the young boy finish his shuttle on the condition that he would fly the black box into space to the stranded shuttle.

I know this all sounds very close to the astronaut farmer but it is not that film just very similar, it is not October sky either.

It has puzzled me for long enough surely someone els watched this on tv ?