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The Challenger Disaster

You're Wrong About

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Do You Really Know What Happened to the Space Shuttle?

Most academics are basing their interpretation of events on the rogers commission report and the house committee report. Diana vaughan uncovers a bunch of new technical details about the crash. The worst wind she ever recorded on a space shuttle mission happened 50 seconds into the flight. If this gust of wind hadn't knocked off the silly putty, everythin would have been fine.

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