ADMS 2610 Lecture Notes - Solid-Fuel Rocket, Public Administration Review, Decision Support System
24 Mar 2013
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The space shuttle challenger disaster occurred on january 28, 1986, when. Space shuttle challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, causing the death of its seven crew members. This was one of the biggest disasters in american"s history. Originally the launch was scheduled on jan 22, 1986 at 2:42 pm, but the bad weather caused some technician problem delayed launch time. Finally the challenger was launched on jan 28 at 11:38. On that day, the temperatures was close to 31 f ( 1 c) -- the minimum temperature allowed for launch (the challenger accident, n. d. ). Under the low temperature, there were some inconsistent situations, there were several engineers concerned about the effect of the temperature on the resilience of the rubber o-ring that sealed the joints of the srbs (solid rocket booster) (the. Thiokol management tried to show the unsafe conditions to nasa mangers, but finally, they failed.
