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PoorGuyCrypto t1_j6f9rkz wrote

Reply to comment by o_c_d in Newspaper headline from 37 years ago today by 1029Dash

Didn't it have something to do with poorly-built gaskets that were connected to a polygamist cult?

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o_c_d t1_j6faihz wrote

Uh, no.

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PoorGuyCrypto t1_j6fd3lu wrote

https://jalopnik.com/how-a-cult-built-the-o-rings-that-failed-on-the-space-s-1846151814

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o_c_d t1_j6fdh3k wrote

While you have provided... a link... the official nasa analysis blamed cold Temps where the ring lost its property to seal the aft joint.

Here is my link. https://youtu.be/6JlSfB32sJo

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heili t1_j6i2822 wrote

The rubber o-rings weren't "poorly built", they were launching well outside the design parameters for temperature. Roger Boisjoly and other Thiokol engineers tried to warn them, but Thiokol management overruled them because they didn't want a huge publicity event to turn into yet another scrubbed launch.

The engineers knew in 1977 it wasn't safe to operate at those cold temperatures. Management of Thiokol and NASA didn't give a shit because they wanted their "Teacher in Space" moment. And they killed seven people.

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