Challenger: The Untold Story Part 1 of 10

A Lone Morton Thiokol Engineer tried to convince NASA and Thiokol management that their booster rocket is flawed. Both NASA and Thiokol ignore his warnings.The next day The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes over Florida and the Rogers Commission is formed to find out what exactly happened.

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Science & Technology

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• space
• shuttle
• challenger
• diaster
• explosion
• rogers
• commission
• morton
• thiokol
• Roger
• Boisjoly

[marutidriver]

"obviously a major malfunction" should get the understatement of the century award.

[intermender]

@marutidriver they are trained to stay cool, i guess.  Best chance of solving any problems that might arise.

[pinboyjorf]

RIP. ROGER, YOU TRIED.

[Juliaflo]

In memory of Roger Boisjoly: 1938-2012.

[dks13827]

@dumapies Many retired astroanauts are not sure there will be much spaceflight anymore, especially after the space station is splashed into the ocean when it gets too old.

[GUARDIANtrooper]

REDRUM...

[htc6600]

@punkfish79 Reagan publicly advocated for allowing illegal aliens citizenship if they could prove they had jobs and paid taxes. Not exactly the kind of conservative hero that your wing nuts hold him up to be was he? Reagan was a fraud who should have been tried and convicted of treason.

[MrBennetzen]

One moonhoaxer who (not very bright and I will not say in this comment as not to give him credibility) said that NASA murdered the entire crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger because in what he says Christa mcAuliffe was going to blow the whistle that NASA might have learned that these astronauts were about to expose the conspiracy that spaceflight was faked and needed to guarantee their silence.

[Killamatrix243]

dumb asses if they had added 3 o-rings this shit would have never happened but nooooooooooo NASA HAD TO BE SO GODDAMN CHEAP

[TheAstro30]

@intermender still sounds non-challant

[possumverde]

@dumapies There may not be a new one for a while...While the American public in general likes hearing about the space program, they're rarely fond of actually funding it...Anytime there's budget crisis (like now) NASA is usually the first to get cut. Unless the few private companies that are getting into the space business can fund the design and construction of new vehicles (instead of using old Russian rockets), it may be a while til we see the next generation of manned space vehicles...

[dumapies]

we're lucky that we can take trips to space like we're going on vacation these days, with over 130 flights, 2 failures due to human error and ignorance is a pretty damm good record. As the space shuttle is decommissioned now, i wonder what new vehicle will take us to space