"And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them."
They should have never went up in those cold temperatures....and a lot of people knew it.
It was a disaster waiting to happen.
It's fascinating and horrifying to me that the same basic human mechanisms, emotions, principles, and conditions that result in petty disagreements and inefficiencies at my work place also poison much more consequential pursuits.
coverage, about 30 seconds so was excited to see it flying. I knew the minute it happened it blew up. I looked at my wife and said to her that something was wrong, and then heard in the background - something like "we have an anomaly" to which I remember saying, you sure as hell do...
Yep temps in the 20s caused the o-ring seals to shrink and the manufacturer(Morton Thiokol??) told NASA not to launch, IIIRC.
Damn, Ronald Reagan could give a speech.
all the engineers knew it was not right to go ....
It was a disaster waiting to happen.
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It was a disaster waiting to happen.
It's fascinating and horrifying to me that the same basic human mechanisms, emotions, principles, and conditions that result in petty disagreements and inefficiencies at my work place also poison much more consequential pursuits.
Yep temps in the 20s caused the o-ring seals to shrink and the manufacturer(Morton Thiokol??) told NASA not to launch, IIIRC.
Damn, Ronald Reagan could give a speech.
But, all the politicians and PR folks needed the "photo op" ... or whatever.
I hope those fucks (politicos and PRs) sleep well at night.