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40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...
William Lucas, director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center during the Challenger disaster
William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...
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William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102
The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center ... known as an O-ring, on one of two booster rockets, which were attached to the shuttle like a jetpack to propel it skyward.
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Books You Should Read: Feynman’s Appendix To The Challenger Disaster Report
In 1986 he somewhat reluctantly agreed to join the Rogers Commission, whose task was to investigate the Challenger disaster. The space shuttle ... disaster was that O-rings on one of the sections ...
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OTD In Space – January 28: Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes After Launch
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William R. Lucas, NASA official blamed in Challenger disaster, dies at 102
Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space ... about the O-rings, he also suggested that disasters like the Challenger tragedy ...
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William Lucas, director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center during the Challenger disaster
Meanwhile O-ring joint seals had failed on previous Space Shuttle launches, in 1981 and 1984, causing combustible gases to leak, though without catastrophic results.