itguy08 wrote:
Chris Bryant wrote:
NASA isn't fond of O rings either. Watching Challenger from my back yard left a lasting impression.
It was more like not listening to the engineers that they didn't know what would happen to the O-Ring at those temperatures and launching any way. There was plenty of blame to go all around but had they listened to the engineers and postponed the launch those people would still be here today.
You are exactly right. A very good friend of mine was a lead engineer with the Saturn 5 and worked on the shuttles also quit NASA because of this before the Challenger blew up. They called him back days after the accident and he went back to work for them.
