"Maybe he is the Engineer that designed the defective seals that caused the Challenger accident"
Please don't impugn Morton Thiokol.
Their seals work perfectly. But they had a strict temperature envelope of 35F minimum.
Blame NASA. Blame the government nonchalance that treated launches like a supermarket shopping trip. With the senior VP of Thiokol, I read the verbatim transcripts of the communications between Thiokol and Cape Kennedy in the summer of 1988. Repeatedly Thiokol BEGGED NASA not to launch because the temperature was far beneath the floor of the sealing ring temperature range. I read with no small degree of incredulity REPEATED and FORCEFUL denials and threats to Thiokol from the launch facility and mission control. NASA was totally revamped but little has been done to correct the gross injustice to Thiokol.
