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Challenger Launch Failure, Remember This? - zqwerty - 01-09-2024
Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/974534021/remembering-allan-mcdonald-he-refused-to-approve-challenger-launch-exposed-cover
Challenger Engineer Who Warned Of Shuttle Disaster Dies
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/470870426/challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-shuttle-disaster-dies
Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried To Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch
I know quite a bit about this from reading in the past,
Richard Feynman was the scientist who exposed why the design was completely wrong and that the O rings should have been compressed and compress further not expand into the space as it opened up at launch, the rings got progressively harder the colder they got hence the shuttle failure.
How Legendary Physicist Richard Feynman Helped Crack the Case on the Challenger Disaster
https://lithub.com/how-legendary-physicist-richard-feynman-helped-crack-the-case-on-the-challenger-disaster/
RE: Challenger Launch Failure, Remember This? - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-09-2024
I remember Challenger. Not for all that stuff though, but for the sheer guts of those who risk all for space. I remember asking Neil Armstrong about the terror of it. He said he felt it every time but the training enabled him to act despite the fear and eventually overcome it.
Life lesson, right there.
RE: Challenger Launch Failure, Remember This? - nzoomed - 02-09-2024
I remember watching an interview with him, in no way was he happy to approve the launch and was literally waiting for it to explode during launch, terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.
Morton Thiokol essentially threw him under the bus, but he ended up leaving the company IIRC.
The blame really lied 100% with NASA for pressuring the company executives to go ahead with the launch, they should have known better.