Challenger disaster. Very tragic and sad. Seems like five years ago. Please, hold the Christine jokes although they did relieve a lot of stress.
I have family members on the designing crew of the Shuttle and learned that the problem was hasty production of the O-rings. The solution is to encourage employees to get a full night’s sleep and to encourage the careful production of parts.
The image of the five white smoke lines expanding further and further apart still brings sadness.
Canceling the Shuttle program and deleting 200K jobs in Los Angeles was the cruel act of selfish and crazy politicians.
I remember when National Geographic called the Shuttle the best machine ever in history. True.
I have family members on the designing crew of the Shuttle and learned that the problem was hasty production of the O-rings.
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The O-rings didn’t function in cold weather. Later Shuttles had heaters for them.
The problem was management ignored warnings about them.
Canceling the Shuttle program and deleting 200K jobs in Los Angeles was the cruel act of selfish and crazy politicians.
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The Shuttle was too expensive, too inefficient, and dangerous for its mission. But in some ways, it was still an awesome and inspirational spacecraft for its time.