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40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers ...
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Challenger's Whistle-Blower: Hero And Outcast
PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, ...
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Who died in the Challenger explosion? NASA pays tribute to lost astronauts on 39th anniversary
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
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Gregory R. Bell
I N HIS study of the Challenger explosion ... I F YOU THINK Ivan Boesky got off easy, you should hear about Morton-Thiokol, Inc. Morton-Thiokol manufactured the booster rocket The Harvard Crimson ...